The iBooks favorites for June include: The Death of Mrs. Westaway, by Ruth Ware When Life Gives You Lululemons, by Lauren Weisberger Calypso, by David Sedaris Too Wilde to Wed, by Eloisa James The Perfect Couple, by Elin Hilderbrand What Truth Sounds Like, by Michael Eric Dyson There There, by Tommy Orange Bearskin, by James A. McLaughlin The Word Is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz The Robots of Gotham, by Tom McAulty I Flipping Love You, by Helena Hunting Blood Standard, by Laird Barron What Eyes Don’t See, by Mona Hanna-Attisha Neverworld Wake, by Marisha Pessl
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Kara Rota has moved over to St. Martin’s as senior editor, acquiring nonfiction books in mind/body/spirit, popular culture, cooking, and science. She was senior editor and director at Macmillan’s Cookstr. Ingram Content Group announced a number of promotions and some new hires: Bailey Davis has been promoted to publisher engagement manager for Lightning Source; Kristal Smith is now manager, business ops support for Ingram Publisher Services; and Lori Bowen moves up to senior manager, specialty retail for Ingram’s wholesale business. At Ingram Spark, Josh Floyd is now senior key account sales manager, and Renee Lamine has been promoted to marketing manager, […]
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By multiple second-hand accounts from publishers who do business with Disney, evp of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media’s (DCPI) Publishing and Digital Media business unit Andrew Sugerman has left the company. He had oversight for “all global licensed and vertical publishing across books, e-books, mobile apps, magazines, and comics under Disney Publishing Worldwide and Disney Book Group” and worked at Disney since 2007. The company has not issued an official announcement about new leadership for the group but is expected to do so after Book Expo (where reportedly, the new executives are in attendance today). Update: That public announcement was […]
June Bookseller Picks
Amazon’s spotlight pick for June is David Sedaris’s Calypso, and their featured debut is There There by Tommy Orange. A NYT profile calls Orange “part of a new generation of acclaimed indigenous writers from the United States and Canada who are publishing groundbreaking, formally innovative poetry, fiction and prose, shattering old tropes and stereotypes about Native American literature, experience and identity.” And they call his novel “a new kind of Native American epic, one that reflects his ambivalence and the complexity of his upbringing.” Also on their top 10 for the month are: The Book of M, by Peng Shepherd Florida, by Lauren […]
Printer Edwards Brothers Malloy to Close
Edwards Brothers Malloy ceo John Edwards and cfo Bill Upton announced Thursday “with heavy hearts” that the company is “closing our doors, effective immediately. As you can imagine, this is a difficult time for our employees as we work through the process of shutting down our facilities while finishing projects for our customers with work in-house.” (Their website indicates that winding down will conclude on June 15The book-manufacturing and printing company has been in business for 125 years. In February they had announced plans to eliminate 100 jobs by the end of 2018 as part of a consolidation of their facilities. […]
Tweets, Fears, and Hope at the Book Expo Author Breakfast
Tonight Book Expo attendees can feel the Bern and tomorrow they’ll have to decide how they feel about Spicey, and politics was on the agenda for many of the opening breakfast authors as well. Trevor Noah — for The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Presents The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library — said of Trump,”We believe you’ll come to understand why he should not be president. Although he is wildly entertaining, he should not be leading anything other than a Twitter account.” Written with the Daily Show Staff, Noah’s book compiles and attempts to analyze the president’s tweets “in […]