DCist reports that workers at DC’s indie bookstore Politics and Prose have decided to unionize, joining a growing list of bookstores (and other workplaces) that have unionized this year. If they do unionize, they’ll become the only bookstore in DC with a unionized workforce. But Politics and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-12-17 16:47:07 UTC ]
With Christmas right around the corner, now's the time to make sure you have all your gifts in check and grab any last-minute holiday gifts you may need. Thankfully, there remain a good number of tech deals available, and a good portion of them are still slated to arrive before the holiday if... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2021-12-17 16:45:01 UTC ]
HarperCollins has scooped Why is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?, an insider account and debut by former BBC political programming editor Rob Burley. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-17 14:50:05 UTC ]
Avon Books has acquired two more saga novels from author Jane Holland, writing under the pseudonym Betty Walker. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-17 14:32:47 UTC ]
What the first president’s own documents reveal about his life and work as a farmer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-17 13:00:00 UTC ]
The efforts to battle the pandemic were heroic — but sometimes chaotic or cynical. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-17 13:00:00 UTC ]
Reporter Peter Robison explores the compromises and flaws that led to fatal crashes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-17 13:00:00 UTC ]
The monarch had plenty of shortcomings, but he wasn’t a brute, writes Andrew Roberts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-17 13:00:00 UTC ]
H.W. Brands tells the story of the era through the eyes of prominent patriots and loyalists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-17 13:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group has inked a deal for Demon in the Wood by bestselling Shadow and Bone series author Leigh Bardugo, the first graphic novel set in the Grishaverse universe, with illustrations by Dani Pendergast. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-17 07:47:02 UTC ]
For those counting, there is an extra issue of The Bookseller this year. And it’s a bumper one, too. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-17 07:30:58 UTC ]
Historian Giles Milton's "exhilarating" wartime story Vodka with Stalin: The Allied Mission to Wartime Moscow has gone to John Murray. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-17 06:27:45 UTC ]
With only the adult fiction category posting an increase, unit sales of print books fell 12.2% in the week ended Dec. 11, 2021, from the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
For the 'Millions,' 12 authors look back at 2021 and the books they read along the way. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Since becoming CEO of Independent Publishers Group in January 2016, Joe Matthews has built it into a distributor for independent publishers that now has more than 1,000 clients in the U.S. and U.K., and has more than 400 employees and 150,000 SKUs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Taking a look at two titles for Beatlemaniacs in a year that found a renewed appetite among readers for books about the Fab Four. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Leigh Altshuler is one of a number of booksellers to open up shop during the pandemic, though her store in Manhattan's Lower East Side is, to put it mildly, is unique: it's also a pickle shop. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bible teacher and bestselling author Beth Moore made front-page news in March when she announced her departure from the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), explaining to Religion News Service that the world’s largest Baptist denomination is “not in step with the gospel.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
On November 17, Nancy Pearl was honored with the 2021 National Book Foundation Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community by the National Book Foundation. It is a lifetime honor richly deserved. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
An era in literary publishing is coming to an end: Fiona McCrae, 63, will retire in June 2022 after 40 years in publishing—28 of them as publisher of Graywolf Press, the venerable Minneapolis house that regularly wins prestigious awards for its books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]