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Our Holiday Schedule
It’s a nice, long holiday stretch ahead. This is our last regularly-scheduled newsletter for a while — unless there’s news that merits another mail on Monday. We will be back at least once before 2024 ends, to stay on top of whatever develops. Deals newsletters will maintain their regular schedule through to Monday’s weekly round-up, and from there will also be more occasional — depending upon the flow of deal reports. As always, PublishersMarketplace.com works for you 24/7 no matter what, and we will be reporting and clipping news to the website, adding new deals as they flow in, posting […]
The Continuing Rise of Bloom Books
The NYT celebrates the continuing success of Sourcebooks’ Bloom Books imprint. In 2023 Bloom had already grown to sales of more than $100 million less than three years after its founding, and sales for 2024 are up another 58 percent. “In an era when TikTok can catapult authors to success overnight, Bloom has developed a lucrative formula: courting self-published authors who have a built-in fan base, taking over their print distribution, building up their brand and market share and turning them into mainstream best sellers. That model has propelled the careers of novelists who now rank among the genre’s most […]
The Very Best of the Best Books of 2024
The votes are all in and we’re ready to celebrate the consensus very best books of 2024, based on a broad collection of lists. As was plainly clear from the start, Percival Everett’s JAMES towered above all others as the consensus book of the year. In nonfiction, Hanif Abdurraqib’s THERE’S ALWAYS NEXT YEAR was a leader from the start as well, joined in the end by Salman Rushdie’s KNIFE to share the distinction of nonfiction book of the year. Liz Moore’s GOD OF THE WOODS was first featured in one of our Buzz Books samplers, and in all, 17 books […]
People 12/19
Trump’s Lawyer Urges Court to Jumpstart Audiobook Case
Donald Trump’s lawyer Robert Garson sent two letters to to Judge Gardephe in the Southern District of New York to try to expedite his case against S&S and Bob Woodward over THE TRUMP TAPES audiobook. In the first letter on November 20, Garson urged Gardephe to schedule oral arguments — even though, as we reported recently, the judge has yet to rule on a motion to dismiss from last year and thus discovery has been stayed. He wrote, “The Court is aware that President Trump is soon due to be inaugurated as the 47th President of these United States of […]