New Books Publishing March 19
This week’s fiction releases include novels by Percival Everett and Téa Obreht, while Christine Blasey Ford and Judith Butler publish new nonfiction works. Also out this week are books by Lisa Ko, Elaine Lin Hering, and Edith Hall, all of which are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer anthology. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-19 14 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-19 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out […]
Nero Gold Prize
Paul Murray's THE BEE STING was named the overall book of the year in the first annual Nero book awards.
People 3/18
Bradley Englert has been promoted to executive editor at Orbit.
AAP, Publishers Oppose IA’s Appeal
The AAP, Hachette, Wiley, PRH, and Harper Collins filed a brief with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals opposing the Internet Archive’s appeal of the copyright lawsuit they lost last year. District Court Judge John Koeltl’s verdict granting summary judgment just under a year ago was clear, overwhelming, and rooted in Second Circuit precedent. So the plaintiffs’ arguments are largely the same as the those that won them the case. Despite the IA’s assertion that they were doing it for the common good, their copying and distribution of in-copyright books — under the invented legal theory of controlled digital lending […]
People 3/15
At FSG, Eric Chinski has been promoted to editorial director, non-fiction.