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September AAP StatShot Reports Another Good Month for Trade Books

October 30, 2020
By Sara Grace

AAP released its StatShot of publisher reported sales for September, with combined adult and children trade sales of $877 million, up from $718 million, or 22 percent higher. Shipments were up as well, at $978 million, up from $837 million last September, as the trade pushed out fall inventory ahead of the election and the…

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People, Etc.

October 19, 2020
By Erin Somers

Poets & Writers managing director Melissa Ford Gradel will take over as the organization’s executive director in January, when Elliot Figman steps down, after leading the nonprofit since 1981. Figman said: “It’s been my honor to work together with such talented and passionate colleagues. While parting is, indeed, sweet sorrow, I’m delighted to pass the…

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August AAP StatShot Shows Continued Trade Gains

October 13, 2020
By Sara Grace

The AAP released its August StatShot showing combined adult and children net trade sales of $648 million, up $46 million from last year. However, publishers didn’t ship many more books than they did last year in August; the gains persist because returns have been consistently lower this year. Shipments totaled $744 million, up just $5…

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Fall Dealmaking Shows Strong Start

September 29, 2020
By Michael Cader

With the Frankfurt Book Fair cancelled, we are taking a preliminary look at the big fall “dealmaking season” a full three weeks after Labor Day. (Ordinarily, we chart pre-FBF deal trends according to the five-plus weeks between Labor Day and the Tuesday before the Fair.) So far, the market for new deals is looking strong…

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Macmillan Will Raise Starting Salaries to $42K

September 24, 2020
By Michael Cader

Macmillan announced Thursday that the entry salary level in the US will be raised to $42,000, effective December 27. As part of the initiative, new ceo Don Weisberg said, current employees below that level will get a raise as well. “In addition to the benefit this provides to existing employees,” Weisberg said, “we expect this…

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More Data for More People

September 22, 2020
By Michael Cader

For over a year now we have offered agents and authors the ability to follow actual NPD Bookscan weekly sales reports for up to 5 ISBNs, through a monthly “data package” upgrade — at the lowest price ever provided for this kind of data access. Now we are able to provide this package to an…

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