Robyn Carr and Kaveh Akbar publish new fiction this week, while nonfiction includes work by Keith Boykin and Benjamin Herold. Also out this week are new books by Venita Blackburn, Kemper Donovan, Antonia Hylton, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, and Opal Wei, all excerpted in our Buzz Books anthologies. 21 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-16 12 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-23 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 January‘s 80 fiction releases, 40 works […]
Forthcoming: Yuval Noah Harari’s NEXUS
On September 10, Penguin Random House will publish NEXUS: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari worldwide. The Random House imprint will publish in the US and Penguin Random House will publish in Canada, the UK, Germany, Spain, Latin America, Brazil, and Portugal. The publisher describes NEXUS as looking “through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has made, and unmade, our world.” “NEXUS is the perfect book for the age in which we are living, and the precarious place in which we find ourselves right […]
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At Knopf, Todd Portnowitz has been promoted to editor. Brian Etling has been promoted to assistant editor.
Don’t Miss Tomorrow’s Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel
There’s still time to register for our virtual Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel, tomorrow, Wednesday, January 24th at 7 PM Eastern. As always, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, with the inimitable Leigh Haber hosting once again. Leigh was most recently director of Oprah’s Book Club and VP of Books for O, the Oprah Magazine where she curated books coverage and essays. She was editor-at-large at Chronicle Books, senior editor at Scribner, executive editor at Hyperion and also at Rodale. As an editor, she worked with such authors as Alice Walker, Gloria […]
Rights Standards Proposed at BISG Event
On Friday, the Book Industry Study Group hosted a series of talks and panels calling for the development of industry-wide standards for publishing rights management, including identification codes for entire book projects (unlike ISBNs, which denote individual editions) and an independent standards organization to govern them. A potential model from the music industry was discussed, and BISG rights committee members reported on their ongoing initiatives. Juergen Boos, president and CEO of the Frankfurt Book Fair, delivered brief opening remarks. He said the fair’s mission was to connect industry players from all over the world, and online platforms that simplify administrative […]
Eggers Wins Newbery; Harrison Wins Caldecott
The American Library Association announced the winners of the annual ALA Youth Media Awards on Monday.