The Boston Herald assembles this list from “publishing experts,” with lots of quotes fom Amazon senior books editor Brad Parsons and a few from Jon Strymish, buyer/manager at New England Mobile Book Fair: 1. War, by Sebastian Junger2. Union Atlantic, by Adam Haslett3. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes4. The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake5. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis6. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith7. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson9. Walking to Gatlinburg: A […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Bookselling: Marcus Books In Trouble; Touting New Releases
Oakland’s Marcus Books, “the nation’s oldest African American bookstore” is “in deep financial trouble” and faces foreclosure. The Oakland-area NBC station reports that manager (and daughter of the founders) Blanche Richardson blames “a Ponzi scheme and a subprime loan” for the store’s troubles. They “need to raise tens of thousands of dollars to keep the store afloat,” and have started a legal defense fund.NBC site In USA Today, booksellers Elaine Petrocelli of Book Passage, Audrey Bullar of Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Patricia Bostelman at Barnes & Noble, Daphne Durham at Amazon, and Larry Norton at Borders tip these new and forthcoming releases: […]
Founder Buys Back Stone Bridge; Quirk Announces 'Android Karenina'; Jacky Sach to Retire, and More
Founder of Stone Bridge Press Peter Goodman has reacquired 100 percent of the company’s shares from its Japanese owner, IBC Publishing of Tokyo. Goodman sold Stone Bridge to Japanese book distributor Yohan in 2005 and passed to its one-time subsidiary IBC in 2007 right before Yohan declared bankruptcy. Goodman, who has been an executive at Stone Bridge since its founding in 1989, will continue to lead the company as publisher and editor-in-chief from their current offices near North Berkeley, CA. He notes, “The Japanese owners at IBC have always been generous in spirit, and they did the best they could […]
Books In the News: Game Change Stays at Top of the News Cycle, But No eBook
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s GAME CHANGE releases today, after a number of continuous days of headline-making tidbits. The AP reports that Harper has gone back to press twice, bringing the initial run of 75,000 copies up to 155,000 copies in print. Both Amazon and BN.com are out of stock for now, promising delivery in one to three weeks, and the book turns out to be one of those titles for which no ebook version is available to fulfill that instand demand. Multiple “reviewers” at both sites have expressed confusion and dismay that no ebook is available. For “quick reads” […]
New Books In the News
Peter Biskind‘s forthcoming STAR: How Warren Beatty Seduced America draws headlines for its estimate that the movie star slept with almost 13,000 women over the years. Attorney Bert Fields denies the accusations, along with a contention in the NY Post that the book was authorized by Beatty.People Meanwhile, Elizabeth Gilbert‘s COMMITTED, which publishes tomorrow, is covered widely, including a Q&A with author Ann Patchett in the WSJ. In a preview piece, the NYT also tipped the awaited second novel from Elizabeth Kostova, THE SWAN THIEVES, along with Anne Tyler‘s NOAH’S COMPASS and Meg Whitman’s THE POWER OF MANY. Joshua Ferris‘s […]
Making 2010 Wimpy
One of the 2009’s sales all-stars announced a new book for early next year: Jeff Kinney’s The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary will have a one-day national lay-down on Tuesday, March 16. It releases a couple of weeks ahead of Fox’s Wimpy Kid movie, and “goes behind the scenes to humorously chronicle the making of the film.” Kinney says “I was fascinated by the filmmaking process, and I thought my readers might be as wide-eyed and interested as I was. In The Wimpy Kid Move Diary, I’ve tried to tell the story of how a movie gets made in a way […]