Perfect Bound Technologies has bought rights and licensing marketplace PubMatch. Publishers using Perfect Bound will now be able to access to PubMatch’s network of rights professionals. The acquisition will also aid management of metadata, sales, files, contracts and royalty accounting. The companies expect the integration of PubMatch to be finished by Q4 of 2024. Chris Yeung, president and cto of Perfect Bound, said, “By integrating PubMatch’s rights management features with our existing platform, we aim to provide publishers with an even more comprehensive solution that covers every aspect of the publishing process, from manuscript to market.”
New Books Publishing October 8
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Chuck Palahniuk, Alan Hollinghurst, and Ben Mezrich, while John Edgar Wideman, Steve Wasserman, and Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough publish nonfiction. Also publishing this week are new books by Dava Sobel, Kate Greathead, Anna Rasche, Robert Beatty, Del Sandeen, and Sarah Sawyer, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler, and by Amanda M. Helander, Freya Marske, Sara Raasch, and Jill Tew, available in our Buzz Books 2024: Romance sampler. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-8 13 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-8 From Buzz Books […]
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Obituary: Robert Coover
Robert Coover, 92, died on October 5 in Warwick, England. Coover was one of the pioneers of post-modern American fiction. His first book, The Origin of the Brunists, was published in 1966. His many other books include the short story collection Pricksongs and Descants, the novel The Public Burning, and his most recent novel Open House, published in 2023. A longtime teacher at Brown University, his students included Rick Moody, Joanna Scott, Jim Shepard, Sam Lipsyte, Ben Marcus, and Alexandra Kleeman.
Skyhorse Tried to Charge CNN for Melania Trump Book Interview
CNN reports that when they requested an interview with Melania Trump surrounding her eponymous book, which publishes October 8 from Skyhorse, the publisher sent back an NDA with a clause that “CNN shall pay a licensing fee of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)” for an interview and the use of photos and excerpts from the book. The news organization notes that they did not sign the agreement, which came after weeks of discussions with the publisher. The contract “laid out strict terms for an interview and use of material from the book” and had signature lines for the agent, […]