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. Prior to that, she led Waterfall Press for Brilliance Publishing, after working at Tyndale House and Oasis Audio. Picks Reese Witherspoon chose Untamed by Glennon Doyle as her April book club pick. Pennie’s Pick at Costco for April is a new hardcover release, The Yellow Bird […]
Statistics
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). Sales of adult print books were $420 million, down from $442 million in October 2019, with mass market showing the largest decline, also in line with the year’s trends. (The originally reported October adult print numbers were significantly higher, at $458 million.) Children’s saw continued […]
People, Etc.
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 Random House Children’s as assistant manager, school marketing. She was previously a teacher and intern at Writer’s House. At, Princeton Architectural Press, Jessica Tackett has been promoted to marketing manager; Parker Menzimer has been promoted to production editor; Stephanie Holstein has been promoted to associate […]
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 lowered by $16 million, and ebook sales were restated as $6 million lower. As we have been reporting (as the only voice in this particular forest), monthly adult sales for 2018 were restated as $30 million lower in March, $33.5 million in February, and $36 […]
UK Consumer Print Sales Fell for PRH In 2018 As Others Gained
As we head into annual report season, the Bookseller looks at publishers’ UK revenue figures, as measured by Nielsen Bookscan UK’s Total Consumer Market. (So this captures UK consumer print revenues only — excluding ebooks, digital audio, and export sales, the latter of which can account for roughly half of UK publishers’ sales.) It was the first time since the service started in 2001 that Penguin UK and Random House UK sales comprised less than 20 percent of the measured market. Notably, Penguin Random House UK is the only big company to see their revenues decline — even with Michelle […]
Germany’s Book Trade Trended Slightly Positive in 2018 — Thanks to Price Increases
In 2018, Germans bought fewer books, but paid more for them, according to stats in the January issue of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association’s publication. “The [sales] balance for the year 2018 is … a wafer-thin increase of 0.1 percent” according to the report, but the number of copies sold fell by 1.4 percent. Buyers paid an average of 13.36 euros per book, 1.4 percent more than in 2017. The publication calls Christmas sales “solid,” yet the numbers are similarly mixed. Yes, December sales revenues were 0.5 percent higher than for December 2017, one of only seven months in […]