Unit sales of print books fell 3.5% through April 18, 2020 compared to the same period a year ago at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Sales of juvenile nonfiction sales were up 21.7% in the period over 2019, somewhat offsetting declines in both adult fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bonnier Books UK has announced a raft of new books by Louise Pentland publishing across its adult non-fiction, adult fiction and children’s fiction imprints. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 12:01:32 UTC ]
Catherine Cho will join the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency as an additional agent in the adult fiction and non-fiction department later this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 16:05:38 UTC ]
Declines in adult fiction and juvenile fiction and nonfiction offset a 7.6% increase in adult nonfiction sales, resulting in a 0.8% drop in unit sales of print books for the week ended Dec. 8, 2018, compared to the similar week last year at outlets the report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The YA author’s first venture into adult fiction could find a wide readership, finds Alice O’Keeffe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning children’s author Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s first foray into adult fiction has gone to Picador for a significant six-figure sum after a “hotly contested” 13-publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sphere has signed Jessica Vallance's first adult fiction novel ahead of London Book Fair, an "addictive" psychological thriller. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jacaranda Books, in partnership with Words of Colour Productions, has launched an initiative to publish 20 Black British writers in the year 2020 across adult fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has acquired two books from fantasy author Cassandra Clare in a seven-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adult fiction and a middle-grade environmentally engaging series are on Evangelia Avloniti's list in the run-up to Frankfurt Book Fair. The post Agency Rights Update: Athens’ Ersilia Literary Agency appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
At outlets that report to NPD BookScan, total unit sales were 8% higher in the week ended May 14, 2017, than in the comparable week last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books by Paula Hawkins, Bill O'Reilly, and J.K. Rowling topped the 2016 bestseller charts for adult fiction and nonfiction, and for children's books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anne Perry is set to join Simon & Schuster UK as editorial director of adult fiction from her role as commissioning editor at Hodder. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hollywood, perennial bestsellers, and publishing powerhouses were the engines behind the 2015 bestsellers in many categories on the adult fiction and nonfiction sides, with several of PW’s category bestseller lists looking a lot like greatest-hits compilations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harper Lee, Marie Kondo, and Jeff Kinney topped the print bestseller lists in 2015 for adult fiction, adult nonfiction, and juvenile books, respectively. Here are the 20 bestselling books of the year in each of those categories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher also has high hopes for its 2015 fiction list, which includes new novels from William Boyd and Margaret AtwoodHarry Potter has conjured up another year of wizard sales for Bloomsbury, helping the publisher to ride out a decline in income from adult fiction.Sales of the boy wizard’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Led by hits from David Walliams, Jeff Kinney and Egmont’s Minecraft stable, the UK children’s market hit an all-time high in revenue and market share in 2014, and exceeded sales of Adult Fiction for the first time since accurate records began. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
New figures from Nielsen BookScan show continuing decline since 2009 as more and more readers migrate to ebooksPrint sales of adult fiction have declined by over £150m since 2009, new figures show, as ebooks take an increasingly large bite out of the market.A review of 2014 from book sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Martha Ashby has been promoted to editor of commercial women's fiction at HarperCollins. Ashby started at the publisher in 2012 as assistant editor, after five years at Orion, including three in non-fiction. She has worked with authors including Cecelia Ahern and Beatriz Williams, and in 2013... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker Prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Samuel Johnson Prize winner H is for Hawk are amongst the titles competing to win the Waterstones Book of the Year 2014. There are eight titles this year on the shortlist, voted for by Waterstones’ booksellers– three adult fiction,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]