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 […]
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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, […]
Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb Leads August Library Reads List
Eli Gottlieb’s new novel Best Boy is the No. 1 pick for the August Library Reads list. The list also includes The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter ebook. The rest of the list features: The Nature of the Beast, by Louise Penny A Window Opens, by Elisabeth Egan Everybody Rise, by Stephanie Clifford The Fall of Princes, by Robert Goolrick In a Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware Black-Eyed Susans, by Julia Heaberlin Lord of the Wings, by Donna Andrews Browsings, by Michael […]
Norton Puts eBooks Into Libraries
In advance of the ALA annual conference starting Thursday in San Francisco, Norton announced that they will make their entire catalog of trade and professional ebooks available for lending through libraries, starting later this summer. The company has reached agreements with Baker & Taylor, OverDrive, and 3M to distribute their ebooks to the libraries. They declined to provide information on their lending terms or library pricing. The agreement includes all of Norton’s distributed/affiliated publishers (e.g. Albatross Publishing, C.I.R.C., Fantagraphics, George Braziller, New Directions, Odyssey Books, Guides and Maps, The Overlook Press, Peace Hill Press, Pegasus, Persea Books, Pushcart Press, Thames & Hudson, Tin […]