The Booker Prize is down to six shortlisted titles, and the winner will be named October 12. In the meantime, US rights to Howard Jacobson’s book have been picked up Bloomsbury USA, which will publish on September 23. Until then, the UK “export edition” ebook is available here from Amazon only.: Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)Emma Donoghue, Room (Picador)Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books)Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)Andrea Levy, The Long Song (Headline Review)Tom McCarthy, C (Jonathan Cape) In other awards, China Miéville’s The City & The City and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The […]
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More Imprint News: Voyager Expands, Touchstone Drops Fireside
HarperCollins will rebrand its Eos imprint in the US as Voyager–a name the company already uses for similar sci-fi, fantasy and horror publishing in the UK and Australia/New Zealand. The change will take place with their January 2011 releases. CEo Brian Murray says in the announcement, “uniting our sister companies in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia/New Zealand allows readers globally unparalleled access to books and authors. This move enables us to offer authors a strong global publishing platform when signing with HarperCollins — whether the acquiring editor is in New York, Sydney, or London.” Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone […]
Mockingjay’s Big Opening Sends Scholastic Back to Press
Scholastic announced that they have sold more than 450,000 print and ebook copies of Suzanne Collins’ MOCKINGJAY in the first week on sale, and have gone back to press for another 400,000 copies. Print sales in outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan were a little over 350,000 copies in the first five days of sale, through August 28. That easily ranks among the biggest opening weeks this year, well above even the opening sale for even Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest in May. (Little, Brown Children’s said they sold 350,000 units of Stephenie Meyer’s The Short Second […]
Indies Take Over Book Reviews for San Diego Union Tribune
Following the elimination of the San Diego Union Tribune’s arts and book critic, four area bookstores–Warwick’s, Mysterious Galaxy, The Book Works, and The Yellow Brick Road–have joined with the newspaper to provide weekly book content. Each week starting as of August 22, one store takes a turn recommending and writing about a title.BTW
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Kobo has hired Marina Glogovac as chief marketing officer. She is the former ceo of online dating service Lavalife. Denise Little will join the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency this month. She was formerly executive editor at Tekno Books, head of Kensington”s Denise Little Presents imprint, and a buyer for Barnes & Noble. She will represent romance, paranormal, mystery, thriller, science-fiction/fantasy, non-fiction, Christian books, and horror. Eric Mullett has moved over to marketing director at Thomas Nelson Fiction (he was running marketing for their gift book division), and Katie Bond has been promoted to publicity manager. Heather Cadenhead has been hired […]
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Executive chairman of Australia and New Zealand bookstore giant RedGroup Retail (comprising Angus & Robertson; Borders ANZ; and Whitcoulls) Rod Walker is leaving his job. He took over after the Borders acquisition. The company says they have obtained the waiver from their loan covenants that they were seeking in the wake of reduced EBITDA of $25 million for the current fiscal year. Owners Pacific Equity Partners indicate they are “exploring a range of options to strengthen its balance sheet longer term.”TVNZ Timber Press has hired Andrew Beckman as their new editorial director, starting September. He was formerly the editorial director […]