With book discovery and exclusive content in the news today, we serendipitously have an announcement of our own: After last year’s successful experiment, today we are publishing BUZZ BOOKS 2013: Spring/Summer as a free ebook, in multiple versions. The new edition of BUZZ BOOKS–available on all major ebook platforms–presents substantial excerpts from 28 highly anticipated books set for release between March and July. For trade readers, it builds on the ABA’s Winter Institute 8, convening later this month in Kansas City, helping to amplify what has become the unofficial spring/summer launch event. For everyone who can’t make it to WI8, […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
In Forthcoming Book, Google Execs Warn on China
The Wall Street Journal went first on Friday with excerpts from Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s THE NEW DIGITAL AGE, which publishes April 23. They conclude “Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth.” On the heels of revelations of Chinese efforts to hack US news organizations, Schmidt and Cohen write in their book, “It’s fair to say we’re already living in an age of state-led cyber war, even if most of us aren’t aware of it.” The WSJ adds, “other parts of the book are a much darker take on how […]
S&S Will Publish Salinger “Oral Biography” in September
Simon & Schuster announced it will publish THE PRIVATE WAR OF JD SALINGER, a new “oral biography” co-written by film producer Shane Salerno and David Shields, in September. The project began life as a documentary more than eight years ago (and which Deadline first wrote about in 2010), and the resulting film, which includes interviews with more than 150 subjects, will air in January 2014 on PBS’s American Masters program and appear in limited theatrical release in September. In a press release S&S publisher Jonathan Karp said: “We are honored to be the publisher of what we believe will be […]
Book News: A Lahiri Novel, Algonquin’s Teen Line, Adaptations and ALA Award Candidates
Pulitzer Prize winner for INTERPRETER OF MALADIES Jhumpa Lahiri‘s THE LOWLAND–her second novel after THE NAMESAKE–will be published on September 24 by Knopf (and by Bloomsbury UK). It’s the second book in their deal from 2006, reportedly for $4 million. The Fox Network has ordered a pilot for an adaptation of Lauren Oliver‘s DELIRIUM. Bookseller Mitchell Kaplan’s Mazur/Kaplan Company is executive producing with Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Television, with the pilot written by executive producer Karyn Usher wrote the pilot which Fox just approved. In the day’s most unusual adaptation news, Hilary Mantel’s Booker-winning duo WOLF HALL and BRING […]
Doubleday Announces New Dan Brown Novel, INFERNO, for May 14
Remember back when a different author was driving eye-popping sales for Random House, Inc.? Author Dan Brown returns on May 14 with a new thriller, INFERNO, once again featuring his recurring character Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist and set to be published in North America by Doubleday, Transworld in the UK, and in audiobook format by Random House Audio. The publisher announced a first printing of 4 million copies. In its first week on sale in fall 2009, Brown’s last book, THE LOST SYMBOL, sold “more than 2 million units worldwide.” (Brown’s THE DA VINCI CODE is reported to have 81 […]
People, Distribution, Etc.
Film development and publishing veteran Ruth Pomerance will join Hyperion on January 28 as a senior editor, focusing on the acquisition and development of new stories and author talent that will translate across the Disney/ABC Television Group businesses. Most recently she was executive producer for the adaptation of Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes and a consultant to entertainment firms. Pomerance has worked for producers including Scott Rudin, Arnold Kopelson, Fred Zollo, and John Davis, for whom she acquired and developed literary properties for film and TV, and has worked at The Rockwell Group, USA Films, Artists Management Group, and the William Morris […]