Julie Stevenson will join Lippincott Massie & McQuilkin as an agent to expand her list of literary and upmarket fiction, narrative nonfiction, YA and children’s books. Previously she was an agent at Waxman Leavell and Sobel Weber Associates. She will divide her time between New York and her hometown of Missoula, Montana. Alexandra Poreda has joined Other Press as associate editor. She was previously a development editor at Cambridge University Press. Kat Brzozowski has moved from Thomas Dunne Books over to Macmillan’s Swoon Reads and Feiwel and Friends as an editor. Former NBN vp of sales Michael Sullivan, 69, died on Sunday following an extended illness. CEO […]
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James Patterson’s BookShots for “People Who Don’t Have Time to Read”
James Patterson announced his newest project, BookShots, a line of books 150 pages or less that will be published by longtime publisher Little, Brown and sold for under $5 each, available in print, digital and audio formats. The NYT reports BookShots “would be aimed at readers who might not want to invest their time in a 300- or 400-page novel” and “might even appeal to people who do not normally read at all.” Little, Brown plans 21 Bookshots for 2016, starting in June with Patterson’s Cross Kill, Zoo II, written by Patterson and Max DiLallo, and Chase, co-written with Michael Ledwidge. Additional […]
HarperCollins Will Lower TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Trade Paperback Price For Schools
HarperCollins announced Tuesday afternoon that it will offer the trade paperback edition of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird at a lower price through its accounts that sell directly to K-12 schools in the US. The price promotion, which starts April 27, will reduce the $14.99 list price so that schools can “effectively purchase the book based on an $8.99 cover price.” A company spokesperson tells us the promotion is “open-ended at this time” and they “will evaluate it on an ongoing basis as we do with other sales promotions.” HarperCollins US & Canada president & publisher Michael Morrison said in […]
Grand Central’s Mass Market License for To Kill A Mockingbird Expires
Last year’s publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman meant big business not just for HarperCollins but also for Grand Central, which has licensed the mass market paperback rights for To Kill A Mockingbird for many years. According to Nielsen Bookscan, that mass market edition of TKAM sold almost 567,000 units in 2015 (and since 2001, the service has tracked sales of approximately 4.924 million units of that edition). That license is about to expire and will not be renewed, according to an email from Hachette Book Group to retailers seen and reported on by the New Republic. A […]
Scholastic Pulls Picture Book After Slavery Depiction Backlash
Scholastic announced that it has withdrawn publication of the picture book A Birthday Cake for George Washington by Ramin Ganeshram and illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, which was published on January 5. The book had been criticized sharply for its upbeat depiction of slaves, with School Library Journal calling it “highly problematic” while Kirkus Reviews deemed it “an incomplete, even dishonest treatment of slavery.” There are more than 100 one-star reviews of the book on Amazon so far. The publisher said in a statement Sunday night: “While we have great respect for the integrity and scholarship of the author, illustrator, and editor, we […]
HBG and Perseus Promise Faster Deliveries
Hachette Book Group announced a new Rapid Replenishment Program, where all orders (subject to stock availability) received on Mondays by 3pm ET will be entered, picked, packed and guaranteed to arrive at accounts no later than Friday. Orders placed Tuesday through Friday will be entered, picked and packed within 24 hours and shipped standard method. This includes orders received into the Hachette system via electronic ordering platforms like Edelweiss. Perseus is partnering with FedEx on an agreement that will “significantly improve shipments to bookstores and other outlets across the US,” the company announced. Under the new agreement, which goes into […]