Hachette Book Group announced it is changing its model for digital product sales to libraries. Starting July 1, the publisher will shift from perpetual ownership of e-books and digital audiobooks to “a two-year metered model.” In their version, those materials can be lent, an unlimited number of times, on a one-user-per-copy basis, for two years…
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People, Etc.: Wein to Avid Reader, and More
Lauren Wein will join Avid Reader Press as editorial director on June 24, where she will acquire both fiction and nonfiction, and will oversee a fiction program for the new imprint. She has been executive editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Erin M. Berger will join Scholastic Trade as senior vice president of marketing, starting June…
Errors & Omissions: Naomi Wolf, Moby
Last week on May 23, author Naomi Wolf learned in a live BBC radio interview that her new book Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love (6/18, HMH) contains errors based on her misunderstanding of the 19th century legal term “death recorded.” Some of Wolf’s book is premised on the idea that “several dozen”…
The Latest Big Buzz Books Fall/Winter Sampler, Just in Time for Book Expo
With Book Expo just two weeks away, today we launch Buzz Books 2019: Fall/Winter and the companion Buzz Books 2019 Young Adult: Fall/Winter. As usual, the samplers are the best way to prepare for the convention and the publishing season ahead, with more than 50 substantial pre-publication excerpts from major authors, as well as breakout and discovery books…
AAP’s Young to Publishing Group to Resume After “Reset”
Questions emerged on social media last week over the status of the Association of American Publishers’ Young to Publishing group, which provides services and community for entry-level and junior industry employees, and appeared to have gone inactive. The committee’s website and Twitter have been dormant since December 2018, and on May 1, an admittedly “rogue”…
Stanford University Press Gets Funding for One More Year
Following significant community pushback, Stanford University has agreed to fund Stanford University Press for one more year, reversing a decision in April to discontinue the $1.7 million annual subsidy. Provost Persis Drell wrote in a letter to faculty that the funds would be extended through 2019-2020 “to help ensure a smooth transition to a sustainable…