Ingram Academic and Professional will distribute, sell, and market Walter De Gruyter in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. De Gruyter will use Ingram’s distribution and printing services, sales force, and digital services beginning in January 2024.
Forthcoming: Pope Francis’s LIFE
In Spring 2024, HarperCollins will publish Life. My Story Through History by Pope Francis. The book originated with HarperCollins Italy, and will be published by Harper globally in Italy, the US, UK, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Poland, and South America. In a release, the company said the book “tells for the first time the story of his life through the events that have marked humanity—from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 when he was almost three years old, to the present day.” Additionally, “The Pope’s voice alternates with that of a narrator, Fabio Marchese […]
New Books Publishing November 7
Rebecca Yarros and Paul Auster publish new fiction this week and Megan Fox’s poetry collection debuts, while nonfiction includes work by Barbra Streisand, Stephanie Land, Ben Mezrich, Tracy K. Smith, Fei-Fei Li, and Fuchsia Dunlop—plus Rob Copeland’s book on Ray Dalio and Bridgewater Associates. In children’s, Christopher Paolini and Amber Smith publish new YA novels this month. Also out this week are new books by Lisa Gornick, Salar Abdoh, Naomi Alderman, Jazmina Barrera, Elizabeth Crook, Naoise Dolan, Emma Grey, Sigrid Nunez, and Court Stevens, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter anthology, and Leigh Heasley’s THE ONCE AND FUTURE […]
People 11/6
At Macmillan, Catherine Marvin has been promoted to senior director on the communications team.
Copyright Office Shares Comments On AI Legal Issues
Earlier this year the US Copyright Office solicited comment on “copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence systems,” in order to “help assess whether legislative or regulatory steps in this area are warranted.” They have received nearly 10,000 comments, which were recently posted into a searchable archive, including extensive submissions from market leaders such as OpenAI, Google and Meta. Google takes the classic tech company approach, suggesting any issues should be left to the courts (where final adjudication will be glacial). Like all of their peers, they argue that large language models (LLMs) are just math; they “capture […]
Marking the Days
Whether you see it as a time of harvest and winding down for hibernation or a period of declining light, temperature and life force, fall is a sentimental season. Our usual antidote is to focus on commemoration, and looking forward to renewal on the horizon, even when events in the world or one’s own life makes it difficult (which is too often the case). Typically this is when we take a brief moment to mark the launch of PublishersMarketplace.com in a different challenging season — 22 years ago, in fall 2001, shortly after 9/11 and not too long after the […]