First Quarter Sales Rose 3% at HBG
Good performances at its English-language divisions, including a 3% gain at Hachette Book Group, helped to increase first-quarter sales at Lagardère Publishing to €576 million, a 1.1% gain over 2023. more...
Book Deals: Week of April 22, 2024
Summit takes ‘McSweeney’s’ publisher Amanda Uhle’s searing family memoir, Delacorte lands Elle Kennedy’s debut YA thriller, and more. more...
Poetry Foundation Offers Aid to SPD Presses as the Search for New Homes Continues
The Poetry Foundation is funding a new grant program to help presses, while more than 70 former Small Press Distribution clients have found new distribution partners. more...PEN America Cancels 2024 Literary Awards Ceremony
Following mass withdrawals of books from consideration, PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, previously slated for April 29. Two cash prizes will still be conferred, and the $75,000 purse accompanying the PEN/Stein Book Award will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. more...and more.
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Publisher NewsEndnotes: ‘Search and Destroy Vol. 1’ by Atsushi Kaneko
An inside look at the publication process for the English translation of a punk update on a classic manga.
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Bookselling
This Week’s Bestsellers: April 29, 2024
Chloe Walsh’s ‘Taming 7,’ a new entry in her BookTok-popular Boys of Tommen YA series, debuts at #3 on our children’s fiction list. Plus novelists Salman Rushdie and Caleb Carr publish memoirs, and a memoir in Spanish by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is a stateside hit.
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Publisher News
The Rise of Manga Indies and New Imprints
From micropublishers showcasing up-and-coming creators to larger companies adding specialty imprints, there’s lots to discover on the edges of the manga mainstream.
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Publisher News
Manga Fans Can’t Get Enough
Manga is so popular in North America that publishers are expanding to comics from across Asia, as Japanese publishers also invest in marketing directly to the West.
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Publisher News
Manga Goes Dark with Smudge
New imprint from Living the Line books trades on the appeal of cult manga
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Book Deals
Book Deals: Week of April 29, 2024
Putnam lands Jill Santopolo’s long anticipated sequel to The Light We Lost, Gallery signs a memoir by late fashion designer Kate Spade’s best friend, and more
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PW Picks
4 New Books on Tantalizingly Esoteric Topics
Four new titles offer deep dives into decidedly niche but surprisingly rich subjects, from silk and female ejaculation to borderline personality disorder and the devil.
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PW Picks
4 New Books on Pioneers of American Performing Arts
Four new titles look at the visionaries who transformed the performing arts in 20th-century America, from group portraits of trailblazing ballerinas and jazz legends to biographies of a folk icon and Broadway director.
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Publisher News
Poetry Foundation Offers Aid to SPD Presses as the Search for New Homes Continues
The Poetry Foundation is funding a new grant program to help presses, while more than 70 former Small Press Distribution clients have found new distribution partners.
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Libraries
The Week in Libraries: April 26, 2024
Among the week's headlines: a deadline looms for federal library funding; the FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules; Maryland passes a law designed to discourage book bans; and why Alabama librarians are feeling exhausted.
