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 Beer brings the literary sensibility Kirkus; readers have come to expect from us along with experience and keen instincts for reporting on books in a way that connects with reading enthusiasts.” Sourcebooks has hired Molly Cusick, as editor for Jabberwocky, Young Readers, and Fire; and […]
Libraries
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 the Window (1,482 ebooks circulated) and Fire and Fury (1,448). Under metered access, providing a maximum of 26 checkouts, The Woman in the Window cost the library $1.04 per checkout, chief of the materials management division Jennifer Maguire-Wright notes. “An average circulation for a printed book is […]
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 on retail sales,” and said they would “work closely with our library vendors who service this channel to evaluate the results and develop ongoing terms that will best support Tor’s authors, their agents, and Tor’s channel partners.” The test period was described as “open-ended.” President […]
Picks: Another Barack Obama Reading List; August Library Reads
Barack Obama posted another summer reading list in advance of his trip to Africa. The list of mostly African authors includes: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe A Grain of Wheat, by Ngugi wa Thiong’o Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Return, by Hisham Matar The World As It Is, by Ben Rhodes Separately, Vox by Christina Dalcher is the top pick for the August’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Louise Candlish Our House and Kristan Higgins’s Good Luck with That, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler and available to download now. The rest […]
Novik’s Spinning Silver Tops July’s Library Reads
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik is the top pick for July’s Library Reads list. Also on the list is Zoje Stage’s Baby Teeth, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler and available for download now. The rest of the picks: Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler Dear Mrs. Bird, by AJ Pearce Give Me Your Hand, by Megan Abbott Believe Me, by JP Delaney Caught in Time, by Julie McElwain Somebody’s Daughter, by David Bell The Romanov Empress, by C. W. Gortner Fruit of the Drunken Tree, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Benjamin’s The Immortalists Leads January Library Reads List
Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists is the top pick for January’s Library Reads List. The novel is available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall Winter (and the new Buzz Books January) along with another pick, A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window. The rest of the list: The Wife Between Us, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen Promise Not to Tell, by Jayne Ann Krentz The Wedding Date, by Jasmine Guillory Carnegie’s Maid, by Marie Benedict Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire Still Me, by Jojo Moyes The Girl in the Tower, by Katherine Arden Eternal Life, by Dara […]