Follett to Close Its Book Fair Business
Explaining that it could no longer see a path to profitability because of setbacks caused by the pandemic, Follett School Solutions said it will wind down its four-year-old school book fair business in November. more...Wyden, Eshoo Question Big Five Publishers Over Their Library E-book Practices
The lawmakers seek a wide range of information not only on the publishers’ digital library practices, but also on the economics of the market. more...
Print Book Sales Fell 3.6% Last Week
Unit sales of print books fell 3.6% last week compared to 2020. The pattern was a familiar one—higher fiction sales offset by declines in nonfiction. more...
HBG Completes Purchase of Workman
The Hachette Book Group has completed its $240 million acquisition of Workman Publishing. Workman will become HBG's eighth publishing group and will be led by Dan Reynolds, who had been its CEO. more...
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A look ahead at some of the big titles for children and teens due out next spring. more...
- Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel
- Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Heka by David Marcum
- The Veiled Throne by Ken Liu
- The Last Goodnight by Kat Martin
- Tunnels by Rutu Modan, Ishai Mishory
- Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen
- An Unexpected Amish Christmas by Rachel J Good
- How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh
- Veggies & Fish: Inspired New Recipes for Plant-Forward Pescatarian Cooking by Bart Van Olphen
- Prayers for the People: Things We Didn’t Know We Could Say to God by Terry J Stokes
- The Midnight Club by Shane Goth, Yong Ling Kang
In Cadwell Turnbull’s 'No Gods, No Monsters' (Blackstone, out now), werewolves, shapeshifters, and ghosts walk among humans and fight amongst themselves in the shadows. more...
Registration for the now fully virtual January conference will open next month. more...
- Wyden, Eshoo Question Big Five Publishers Over Their Library E-book Practices
- Publishers, Amazon Ask Court to Dismiss ‘Illogical’ E-book Price-Fixing Suit
- Joy Williams Awarded 2021 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
- In Deal with LibraryPass, TKO Studios Makes Full Digital Catalog Available to Libraries
Britain’s Simon Beckett topped Germany’s fiction bestseller list in late July with the mystery 'The Lost' while in Spain, María Dueñas’s 'Sira' topped the fiction list. more...
Picks for readers of all stripes and ages, whether you’re after a poolside treat, something to expand your horizons, or maybe a bit of both. more
With the world in turmoil, science fiction and fantasy readers are turning to an increasingly popular subgenre: “hopepunk.” more...
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Strong sales of adult fiction were not enough to prevent unit sales of print books from falling 1.2% in the week ended Sept. 11, 2021, compared to the similar week last year, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. more...
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Sherbert M. Holmes The Case of the Catnip Thief by Jeff Crise, Amanda M. G. Busch, Josh Crise
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Lion Shaped Mountain: A fable as told through the eyes of wild chimpanzees by Andrew R. Halloran
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Friendship's Gallop by Ross Davis
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The Search for Mukurob by André Costa
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The witches world in ocean by elijah edwin
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Second Harvest by Don Agey
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FEETSPEAK by EAShields
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Conspiracy by Liam McCarthy
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Politically Corrected by Kurt DiClementi
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The Girl on the Carpathia - A Novel of the Titanic by Eileen Enwright Hodgetts
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God and Humanity by Max-Henri Lavi
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The Characters of Milestoneville: Collector's Edition by Golden November
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The Adventures of Abby and Friend by Connor Owens
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The Woman in the Sun Hat by Daniel Damiano
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Please Don't Tell Cooper That Jack Is a Rabbit by Michelle Lander Feinberg
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Out of Dreams Comes...The Artistic Edge: An Anthology of Original Poems, Thoughts, and Musings by JoAnne Ciscely Nanton
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It Takes a Village by Kevin Pereau
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How to Alleviate Digital Transformation Debt Post-COVID-19 by Dr. Setrag Khoshafian
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A Span of Moments by Robert Beech
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