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UK bookseller Blackwell’s is in talks with buyers, after canceling plans to transfer ownership of the 18-store chain to staff. The company has been owned by the same family since the founding of its first store in Oxford 1879. Accounting firm Begbies Traynor has been appointed to oversee the sale. Plans to hand the store over to the staff were reportedly disrupted by the pandemic. Company president Toby Blackwell told Sky News, they “would have loved to have handed over the company to its staff, but I also accept that in order to grow and remain competitive in the future, […]

Join Sara Birmingham, editor at Ecco, online at Publishers Marketplace Wednesday, February 9 at noon Eastern, the latest guest on our forum Discuss, to ask questions about acquisitions and agents that face editors. The discussion will happen at this link. A reminder that these are straightforward typed message board conversations. No cameras, no sound, no zooming, no separate apps required. Use the “reply” button to type your questions or comments, and Megan will post back. You can post questions ahead of time, too, if you wish.

Minneapolis mystery and science fiction bookstore Uncle Hugo’s and Uncle Edgar’s, which burned down in 2020 during the George Floyd protests, has found a new location. Owner Don Blyly will close on purchasing the new building on March 24 and plans to reopen the stores in June.

Thanks to our co-presenter the American Booksellers Association plus enthusiasm from the community, we are expecting a packed virtual room for our winter Buzz Books Editors Panel this Wednesday at 7 PM EST. Make sure you register now if you have not done so already, and join moderator Emma Straub, co-founder Books Are Magic and bestselling author, to hear six editor and their authors discuss some of the season’s potential breakout titles.

As part of its partnership with the Netflix Book Club, Starbucks will give away a million free ebooks of Sweet Magnolias: Feels like Family by Sherryl Woods, the February book club pick. (The second season of the Sweet Magnolias series begins streaming February 4.) Customers who receive emails from Starbucks or the Netflix Book Club will receive a code to download the title through Google Play starting today. According to the publisher, “It’s the standard Mira ebook edition sold to Starbucks for premium distribution to its customers.”

We continue to present extracts from our big Buzz Books 2022 Spring/Summer overview, today highlighting commercial fiction. Did you download your copy yet? Get the “trade edition” from NetGalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. The spring/summer season promises books from some of the biggest names in fiction. For fantasy fans there is new work by George R. R. Martin. Books by Chris Bohjalian, Riley Sager, Anthony Horowitz, Jennifer Weiner, Elin Hilderbrand, and many more, ensure that there’s something for everyone across every genre. In our sampler, check out excerpts from Denny S. Bryce, David Gillham, Jasmine Guillory, […]