With Penguin Random House unifying its adult library marketing teams under the leadership of vp, library sales Skip Dye, the company will also simplify its terms of sale for ebooks into school and public libraries in the US and Canada as of January 1, 2016. The Random House model will prevail companywide over the Penguin practice, and going forward all titles will be sold to libraries in perpetuity — at premium library prices — rather than sold for a term of one year, as has been the Penguin policy. (Titles are still limited to one patron at a time for each ebook […]
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Corporate: Expanded S&S Library Option, Expanding Orbit, and More
Simon & Schuster is testing an expansion of their business proposition for library ebook lending. Announced by Overdrive on their blog, the new pilot offers an expanded two-year lending term for a roster of about 550 titles, with the second year priced at 50 percent of the one-year lending sales price. The starting selection includes at least some bestsellers and frontlist releases. Hachette Book Group’s sci-fi/fantasy imprint Orbit will increase the number of titles it publishes by 50 percent starting with the fall 2016 season, growing to about 90 titles a year. The line says it will hire additional editorial, marketing, and design staff to […]
Allende’s The Japanese Lover Tops November Library Reads List
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende is the No. 1 pick for the November Library Reads list. The list also includes an excerpt of Jason Gay’s Little Victories, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter ebook, as well as November #1 Indie Next Pick The Muralist by B.A Shapiro. The rest of the list features: Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love (Knopf) Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Crimson Shore (Grand Central) M.H. Boroson, The Girl With Ghost Eyes (Talos Press) Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea (Putnam) Jenn McKinlay, A Likely […]
Corporate: Canongate Falls In 2014, 3M Exits Library Market
Sales at Canongate fell 24 percent in 2014, down to £7.9 million, with a pre-tax loss of £1.3 million in a “difficult and dispiriting” year. The company blamed a bad fall list, with “some very significant advance write-offs we subsequently made.” 3M sold their North American Library Services division to One Equity Partners — which owns Bibliotheca — and they have “entered into agreements” to sell the remaining global Library Systems business as well. Bibliotheca promises that the expanded group “will combine the best of both worlds to help libraries captivate their communities, providing innovative library-focused solutions that connect with people at home, at the library, and […]
Hallberg’s City On Fire Tops October Library Reads List
Garth Risk Hallberg’s much-hyped debut novel City on Fire is the No. 1 pick for the October Library Reads list. The list also includes The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter ebook. The rest of the list features: After You, by Jojo Moyes A Banquet of Consequences, by Elizabeth George Slade House, by David Mitchell The Heart Goes Last, by Margaret Atwood Welcome to Night Vale, by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor In Bitter Chill, by Sarah Ward Then Comes Marriage, by Roberta Kaplan, Edie […]
The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo Leads September Library Reads List
Melissa DeCarlo’s novel The Art of Crash Landing is the No. 1 pick for the September Library Reads list. The list also includes Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff and Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart, excerpts of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winterebook. The rest of the list features: Make Me, by Lee Child House of Thieves, by Charles Belfoure Did You Ever Have A Family, by Bill Clegg The Gates of Evangeline, by Hester Young Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, by Jenny Lawson This Is Your Life, […]