At the Workman imprint, Wendy Williams has joined as senior editor, with a focus on calendars. She was most recently senior editor at Sterling Publishing. Alisha Zucker has joined the children’s editorial department as senior editor, with a focus on curriculum titles. She was most recently executive editor of early childhood mathematics at Scholastic. Roxanne Jones has joined Grand Central as a publicity manager. She was previously at Harlequin. At Harper Children’s, Sam Fox is joining as director of digital marketing. He was previously brand marketer and director at Condé Nast. At Princeton University Press, Ken Barton has joined in the […]
Deals
Zando Announces First Title; Spiegel & Grau Celebrates Launch
New independent publisher Zando, launched last fall by former Crown publisher Molly Stern, has announced its first acquisition: YOU ARE NOT ALONE: The NAMI Guide To Mental Illness And Recovery, by Dr. Ken Duckworth. The book will be published in fall 2022 partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Zando senior editor Quynh Do acquired the book, at auction, sold by Will Lippincott at Aevitas Creative Management. Stern and Do talked to PL about the inaugural title, acquired in “a competitive auction” and Zando’s strategy of platform-driven publishing. Do told PL that once the world is through the initial […]
Simon & Schuster to Publish Mike Pence
Former vice president Mike Pence’s autobiography will be published by Simon & Schuster. Publisher Dana Canedy made a two-book, world rights deal with Pence through David Vigliano and Thomas Flannery at Vigliano Associates. The first book is scheduled for publication in 2023. Canedy says in the announcement, “Vice President Pence’s life and work, his journey as a Christian, the challenges and triumphs he has faced, and the lessons he has learned, tells an American story of extraordinary public service during a time of unrivaled public interest in our government and politics. His revelatory autobiography will be the definitive book on […]
Deal Reports Jump In First Quarter — Alongside Print Book Sales
As readers may recall in January we analyzed domestic book deal trends for 2020, finding that deal volume rose measurably, across all major categories — even as financial investment in the biggest deals softened, particularly in adult books. With NPD Bookscan showing print book sales stronger than ever across the first quarter of 2021 — with sales of approximately 186 million units, up a big 26.5 percent compared to 147 million units in 2020 — we looked at our deal report statistics for the same period. In line with those very strong consumer print book sales, our deal reports also […]
2020: The Year In Deals
We are working on a broad piece looking at sales trends in 2020 and shifts among various sales channel but before we get to that, we are long overdue for an analysis of Deal trends from the year. (As always, our analysis is based on deal reports at PublishersMarketplace.com. Like all book industry datasets it is not complete; such a thing does not exist. But it’s the only comprehensive dataset on book deals, and is consistent over time.) Overall Stats Broadly speaking, the data aligns with US book sales reports, in that deal volume was up measurably, in all major […]
Mug Shots
Last year we quietly added a Screenshot View to every new deal to help make it easy to capture and share individual reports — but as usual, creative authors (and their friends) are leading the way in innovation. So far, we have seen at least three of these deals as mugs: