A group of Authors Guild members, Amazon Publishing, and Penguin Random House jointly filed a lawsuit in a Washington state federal court against Ukraine-based Kiss Library, alleging that the site flagrantly trades in cheap pirated ebooks. Kiss “is able to offer ‘unbeatable prices’ for a simple reason: its catalogs are replete with pirated ebooks, including…
McGraw Hill Informs Authors Their Audible Relationship Is Likely Over
Authors who published audiobooks with McGraw Hill received an email from the publisher in late June notifying them that their audiobooks would be pulled from Audible on June 30. “After prolonged contract negotiations with Audible over a span of several years, we have been unable to come to terms for the renewal of our agreement,”…
People, Etc.
Dawn Durante will join University of Texas Press as editor in chief on August 10. She was previously senior acquisitions editor at University of Illinois Press. Catherine Zappa has been promoted to publisher and evp of film & television at Dreamscape Media. Rachel Spence has joined The Rights Factory as associate editor. She was previously…
New Books Publishing July 7
It’s a big week for new books coming to market. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 31 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-titles-publishing-july-7 14 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-7 27 new children’s and YA titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-july We consult a number of…
S&S Moves Up Pub Date for Mary Trump Book
In advance of a July 10 court hearing on the request for a temporary restraining order to delay publication of Mary Trump’s TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH, Simon & Schuster has moved that publication date up to July 14. The change was “due to high demand and extraordinary interest in this book,” the publisher said….
Introducing Our Buzz Books Romance Panel
Following on the success of our virtual Buzz Books Editors Panel in May, we are presenting Buzz Books Romance on July 22 at 6 pm EDT. The format will be slightly different: Select Buzz Books 2020: Romance authors will answer questions from their editors about what inspires them, what it’s like to write romance from…