Jennifer Weis will join the Ross Yoon Agency as senior literary agent based in New York, representing book club and women’s fiction, thrillers, memoir, narrative and platform-driven nonfiction, psychology and health. She was previously executive editor at St. Martin’s. At Princeton University Press, Fred Appel is promoted to publisher, religion and anthropology; Ben Tate to…
Libraries
Simon & Schuster Improves Library eBook Terms, Adds Selected Pay-Per-Checkout Titles
As the big publishers move to relatively similar terms for providing ebooks to public libraries, Simon & Schuster announced a revision of their terms that libraries should see as at least incremental improvement. Effective August 1, S&S will expand their usage term from one year to two years — in alignment with other big publisher…
Briefs: Realignments, Initiatives, and More
Realigning Two UK publishers announced internal realignments. Ebury is adding “self” and “lifestyle/BBC” publishing “hubs” to the smart and entertainment hubs they created earlier this year — and now publicity and marketing are being brought closer together. It seems publicity is now called “campaigns,” with Joanna Bennett promoted to head of campaigns for the Smart…
People, Etc.
Kirkus Reviews editor in chief for over six years Claiborne Smith is resigning to “focus on writing books” and supporting the San Antonio Book Festival, where he will be literary director. Newsday books editor Tom Beer will take over at Kirkus on June 17, reporting to ceo Meg Kuehn. She says in the announcement, “Tom…
A Case Study of Sorts: eBooks at the Free Library of Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Inquirer has an interesting look at ebook lending from area library systems, which looks to be on the rise (in contrast to publishers’ dollar sales from ebooks). In 2018, 28 percent of the total circulation of the Free Library of Philadelphia “came from ebooks and other digital content.” The top ebooks were The Woman in…
Tor Tests Windowing Frontlist Library eBooks, Joins Broader Library Impact Data Study
Tor Books has begun windowing ebook versions of frontlist titles (e.g. the adult science line) for the library market starting with July releases, delaying their availability for library ebook distribution to four months after the retail on-sale date. The company told libraries this is “part of a test program to determine the impact of eLending…