The books we love coming out this week include new titles by Tessa Hadley, Florence Williams, and Carl Phillips. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
After increasing 8% in 2020 and 9% in 2021, it is unlikely that unit sales of print books will grow again in 2022, Kristen McLean, executive director and industry analyst for NPD/BookScan Books. She noted the importance of several other trends, including the influence of BookTok and the growth... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
The past two years saw strong gains in unit sales of print books due to the pandemic and other factors, but that trend is unlikely to continue this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
We look at the adult and children’s authors originally tapped by booksellers to appear at this year’s Winter Institute—although due to the cancellation of the in-person event, the panel will now be virtual. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
Illinois has become the latest state to introduce a library e-book bill, with state legislators last week introducing the Equitable Access to Electronic Literature Act. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
This week we’ve got a 1921 cover advertisement from Alfred A. Knopf, thanking the industry for its support of his then-new Borzoi Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
To mark its second anniversary, Bookshop.org, has started what it is calling the Golden Bookmark Sweepstakes, which will award one person $600 in Bookshop.org gift cards each year for life, as well as a one-time prize of $500 to donate to a bookstore of their choice. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bantam buys a thriller from the host of a popular podcast, Elizabeth George sells the latest in her Lynley series to Viking, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
TikTok sensation Colleen Hoover has the #1 book in the country with her new novel, 'Reminders of Him.' Plus Dana Schwartz's 'Anatomy: A Love Story' is the Reese's YA Book Club pick, and Katee Robert returns to Dark Olympus with 'Electric Idol.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
Fast-growing digital media company Sinuate Media is pivoting its business model with pre-packaged marketing platforms to help small companies compete with bigger fish. Sinuate CEO and founder Leah Messina told Business First that the knowledge needed to use digital marketing tools has increased... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2022-01-27 23:14:12 UTC ]
The "Orwellian" decision to ban a graphic novel that depicts the horrors of the Holocaust was made days before Holocaust Remembrance Day. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-01-27 17:45:36 UTC ]
With early bird pricing ending January 31, exhibitors and literary agents now can make cost-free cancellations, if need be, until May 31. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse: Upgraded Cancellation Terms for 2022 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-27 16:35:12 UTC ]
Abimbola Salami and Diane Ewan have won the inaugural Jericho Prize, a competition for unpublished and self-published Black-British writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-27 15:04:19 UTC ]
A nonbinary teenager on their way home from an eating -disorder treatment center who tries to convince a stranger she is not a vampire, an aspiring fashion designer/dry-cleaning worker who develops an obsession with a customer, a community of people with Hansen’s disease that welcome and attempt... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-01-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Dirda listed 66 books that give him a deep sense of contentment and well-being. Commenters had their own ideas. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
Leanne Brown’s wildly popular, IACP award-winning and The New York Times bestselling cookbook Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day showed us that kitchen skill and resourcefulness, not budget, is the key to great food. Greenlight is delighted to welcome Brown back for the launch of her new... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-27 09:49:53 UTC ]
Chris Herring, author of 'Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks,' picks his 10 favorite hoops books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
Unit sales of print books fell 2.6% last week compared to the week ended January 23, 2021 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Sales have fallen every week this year though the 2.6% decline is the smallest so far. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Ali Smith and Natasha Brown will judge the 10th Goldsmiths Prize, joined by the New Statesman’s Tom Gatti and prize founder Dr Tim Parnell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-27 01:39:38 UTC ]
The Wingate Literary Prize shortlist this year includes Nicole Krauss and Edmund de Waal with a mix of indie and corporate publishers in the running for the £4,000 award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-27 00:47:48 UTC ]