Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly is the top pick for April’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Tracey Garvis Graves’ The Girl He Used to Know and Melanie Golding’s Little Darlings, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: The Invited, by…
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Ben Ball will join Simon & Schuster Australia in the newly created role of publishing director, Scribner. He will report to managing director Dan Ruffino, leading the recently launched Australian arm of the imprint. He was previously with Penguin Group Australia for 12 years, most recently as publishing director, literary. Keith Riegert will rejoin Ulysses…
NBCC Awards to Burns, Coll, Smith and More
The National Book Critics Circle announced their 2018 award winners on Thursday night: Novel Milkman, Anna Burns (Graywolf), Nonfiction Directorate S, Steve Coll (Penguin Press) Criticism Feel Free, Zadie Smith (Penguin Press) Autobiography Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home, Nora Krug (Scribner); Biography Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, Christopher Bonanos (Holt)…
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Hannah Rahill has been promoted to senior vice president, director of publishing development and strategy at Crown Publishing. In this newly created position, she will develop publishing programs and product across the illustrated area of Crown, including Ten Speed, Clarkson Potter, and Harmony/Rodale. At Chronicle Books, Natalie Butterfield has been promoted to assistant editor, art….
As Hudson Group Grows, Media Sales Continue to Slide
The Hudson Group, the travel retailer and bookstore, released Q4 and full-year 2018 earnings, as well as their first annual report since going public in February 2018. Book sales are registered in a breakout of “literature and publications,” with that segment declining slightly in the three years of data provided, as “confectionary, food, and catering”…
Lagardere Publishing Profit Falls
After reporting a slight revenue decline of 1.6 percent for full-year 2018 back in February, at €2.252 billion, Lagardere Publishing has now reported full results in line with the prediction that 2018 would be “a more challenging year.” Profits for the year fell more than sales, with recurring EBIT(A) of €210 million in 2017 to…