Controversies After UK thriller writer Mark Dawson admitted — or boasted? — about buying his way onto the Sunday Times bestseller list with a modest purchase of 400 hardcovers, Nielsen Bookscan has recalculated that Top 10 chart to remove Dawson’s book and the paper will issue a correction. Nielsen says they initially believed the purchase…
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The Deals Are Alright
As you may have noticed informally, deal reports have been looking pretty steady over the past month at PublishersMarketplace.com, and with April coming to an end, we can share some data on dealmaking patterns since the pandemic hit. Broadly speaking, deal volumes were strong in the first half of March up until the cancelled London…
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Siobhan McBride has joined Carnicelli Literary Management as associate agent representing literary and commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. She was most recently at Sobel Weber Associates. Tammy Faxel, 55, publisher at Dreamscape Media, died on March 30. She joined Dreamscape in 2014, and helped grow the company’s audiobook publishing program to over 900 titles annually….
AAP October Stat Shot
With full-year NPD Bookscan stats for 2019 now available, the AAP turns back the clock a little with the release of its October StatShot. Overall adult sales in October were $561 million, down from $583 million in 2018 (or $600 million in the original 2018 reporting, continuing the correction trend we have noted throughout 2019)….
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Zareen Jaffery will join Kokila as executive editor on January 13. She was previously executive editor at Simon & Schuster Children’s. Rachel Beck has joined Liza Dawson Associates as agent. She was previously an agent with Holloway Literary. Emily Duval has been promoted to manager, library marketing at Random House Children’s. Natalie Capogrossi has joined…
AAP April Stats Include Another $38 Million Gap
The AAP released its monthly StatShot report for April, most notable for featuring yet another large restatement of the prior year’s adult trade sales. The final version of the April 2018 adult trade total now stands at $392, or $38 million lower than when first reported a year ago. Hardcovers and trade paperbacks were both…