In keeping with plans announced in March, Spotify has increased its prices in the US, with the premium tier, which includes 15 hours of audiobooks per month, now costing $11.99. They have also introduced a new Basic plan for $10.99, without any audiobooks. Back in March, they debuted an Audiobook Access Tier for $9.99, which gets listeners 15 hours of books monthly, and music with ads.
New Books Publishing June 25
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Flynn Berry, Julia Phillips, and Joyce Maynard, while Emily Nussbaum and the hosts of Pod Save America publish nonfiction works. Also publishing this week are Monica Kim’s THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART, Joselyn Takacs’s PEARCE OYSTERS, and Isabel Banta’s HONEY, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler. 23 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-25 10 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-25 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for […]
Forthcoming: ‘Something Lost, Something Gained’ By Hillary Clinton
Simon & Schuster will publish a new book by Hillary Clinton on September 17, SOMETHING LOST, SOMETHING GAINED: REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, LOVE, AND LIBERTY. The publisher writes she “shows us how to age with grace and keep moving forward with grit, joy, purpose, and a sense of humor. ” The narrative “moves past her dream of being president, and dives into new activism for women and democracy,” including what they call a “fervent and persuasive warning to all American voters.”
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Obituary: Gary Urda
Gary Urda, 59, senior vice president of sales at Simon & Schuster, died suddenly on the morning of June 24, after collapsing at the gym. Urda began his career at S&S in 1996 as vp for sales development at Pocket Books and held a series of positions in both Atria/Pocket Books and the sales division before becoming senior vice president, sales. S&S ceo and president Jonathan Karp writes, “Gary was the best kind of colleague – engaged, thoughtful, attentive, constructive, upbeat, humorous, warm, and always approachable, personable, and capable. He was a quintessential sales executive, with a deep knowledge of […]
Saturday Books On The New “New Adult”
VP, editorial director Sara Goodman shared more details about Saturday Books, the new “New Adult” imprint from St. Martin’s Press that sits alongside YA imprint Wednesday Books. The imprint seems to be a way of reclaiming and redefining the term “New Adult,” which came to describe steamy romances about–and with the intended audience of–people in their early 20’s. The moniker has fallen out of favor in the industry in recent years: In 2013 at the category’s height, PM recorded 51 New Adult deals; in 2023 that number dropped to 7. Though the current success of authors who cross age categories […]