David Baldacci, Leonard Cohen, Nelson DeMille, Louise Glück and Lydia Millet lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes work from Michael Fanone and Temple Grandin. Also out this week are new books by Vanessa A. Bee and E. M. Tran, available in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter sampler, and Anna Gomez and Kristoffer Polaha, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: Romance sampler. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-11 9 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-11 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
For Weekend Reading and Permanent Collections
After a small hiccup, our librarian friends should be able to find and order our new ebook THE TRIAL: The DOJ’s Suit to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon & Schuster from Overdrive for your permanent collections. And all of our readers can enjoy the long fall weekend with a copy: Would you rather spend the time reading the full testimony of Markus Dohle, Jonathan Karp, Michael Pietsch, Madeline McIntosh, or someone else? Or perhaps you’ll jump ahead to the appendix of over 100 pages of emails and internal data and documents entered in evidence? Get yours at the […]
Buy or Borrow: The Trial, For Libraries
As promised last week, for our friends in the library community our landmark gigantic ebook on THE TRIAL: The DOJ’s Suit to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon & Schuster, is now available to libraries through OverDrive. The book should be of broad interest to authors, and of particular interest to academic libraries with courses and programs in publishing and writing. Meanwhile, the general ebook is widely available now: So far sales have been highest right from the shop at Publishers Marketplace (where you can choose an epub or a PDF, and send to Kindle if that’s your preferred reader), […]
New Books Publishing October 4
Orhan Pamuk, Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, and book club favorite Celeste Ng lead this week’s fiction releases. Nonfiction includes work from David Quammen, Cori Bush, and Maggie Haberman; and Adam Silvera, Malinda Lo, and Alice Oseman publish new YA titles this month. Also out this week are new books by Ana Davila Cardinal, Lauren Denton, Elizabeth McCracken, and Thomas E. Ricks, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter sampler. 24 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-4 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_October_/224566 12 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-4 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_October_/224567 25 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-october https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_in_October/224565 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and […]
You Also Get…
It takes at least a few posts to explain just how much material we have packed into our new ebook THE TRIAL. Yes, it has the full opening and closing arguments; the full public testimony of 22 witnesses; Judge Pan’s critical (and lengthy) ruling disallowing Penguin Random House’s evidence about their projected post-merger cost savings and increased revenues; and key pre- and post-trial documents. And yes, at every step of the way it includes the Publishers Lunch overviews and analysis. But that’s not all, of course. At the end, we have culled a selection of over 100 pages of the […]
More on THE TRIAL
Our massive new ebook THE TRIAL: The DOJ’s Suit to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon & Schuster has rocketed to the top 100 at Kobo (up from No. 275155) and is now available through Apple Books as well. (The former clocks us at 2,440 pages, while the latter calls it only 1,448 pages.) Either way, we’re delighted to have this important document out in the world and available to the community. The file will not be available in the Kindle store any time soon because, quite frankly, we can’t afford their margins — but the versions we are […]