Little, Brown has released the cover for I AM MALALA: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban, the memoir from Malala Yousafzai (and Christina Lamb) that they will publish on October 8. Some time today Amazon is expected to publish a free Kindle Singles Interview ebook with their editor David Blum speaking to President Barack Obama following his Tuesday appearance at the etailer’s Chattanooga warehouse.
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Amazon Chooses Fall Book Picks
Amazon’s website book editors, led by Sara Nelson, posted their Fall Books Preview, including their picks for “fall’s 20 big books” and 10 editors’ picks of “exciting under-the-radar books,” along with a variety of recommendations across multiple categories. Four of those top titles and another two of the editors’ picks, asterisked below, can be sampled right now in our free Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2013: Fall/Winter ebook. Their top twenty big fall books, in alphabetical order: Scott Anderson, LAWRENCE IN ARABIA Margaret Atwood, MADDADDAM Lee Child, NEVER GO BACK Robert Dallek, CAMELOT’S COURT: Inside the Kennedy White House Helen Fielding, […]
Authors in the News: Galbraith FAQs; Ann Rule Sues Seattle Weekly; Pahlaniuk’s FIGHT CLUB Sequel; and More
The official website of “Robert Galbraith,” JK Rowling‘s crime-writing alter ego, now includes a FAQ addressing many of the questions that have emerged since the Sunday Times unmasked her identity earlier this month. She wrote THE CUCKOO’S CALLING under a pseudonym because “I was yearning to go back to the beginning of a writing career in this new genre, to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback. It was a fantastic experience and I only wish it could have gone on a little longer.” Rowling says she had “labyrinthine plans…to conceal my identity” and “hoped to keep […]
Briefs: Banks and Perseus Funds Sue Frank Pearl’s Estate; German Publisher Is Rowling Winner; And More
The estate of financier and Perseus Books founder Frank Pearl, who died in May 2012, is being sued by Bank of America, TD Bank, Eagle Bank and even Perseus Funds for more than $50 million, according to the Washington Post, alleging he “sought to avoid payment to creditors by fraudulently moving $59 million in life insurance proceeds and other assets from his estate into Perseus Trust, which he had created for his wife” after being diagnosed with terminal cancer in November 2011. Bank of America seeks $22 million; TD Bank and Eagle Bank are asking for more than $16 million […]
HOTHOUSE in the Hot Seat
Boris Kachka has covered the trade publishing beat for more than thirteen years at New York Magazine, and one could look at his forthcoming book Hothouse, which S&S will publish August 6, as a rite of passage akin to a Bar Mitzvah. The advance attention from booksellers and publishing types for the book, a history of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and the two figures, Roger Straus and Robert Giroux, who loomed largest over the publishing house’s six decades, has been almost uniformly rapturous, garnering the No. 1 slot for August’s Indie Next list. But Hothouse‘s predicament begins with its declaration […]
Books In the News: Cuckoo Denial; Inferno and Wild Movies; Dinkins’ Memoir
Little Brown UK told The Bookseller that “Robert Galbraith’s” THE CUCKOO’S CALLING had sold 1,400 print copies and 800 ebooks domestically, plus 2,000 export copies and 3,800 audio downloads. (That compares to under 500 hardcovers in the US.) The UK publisher is reprinting 140,000 copies. Rowling’s spokesperson felt compelled to formally deny involvement in the Sunday Times revelation, saying “it was not a leak or elaborate marketing campaign to boost sales.” Little Brown UK added their own denial, in almost the same words, saying it “was not a leak or part of a marketing campaign.” As for other big bestsellers, […]