Catherine Onder will join Bloomsbury Children's on September 3 as editorial director, reporting to publishing director Cindy Loh. Most recently she was senior editor at Disney Hyperion. Loh says in the announcement: "Cat’s publishing vision perfectly dovetails with Bloomsbury's plans for the future. We have three ambitious new lines launching next year and a fresh, new focus. I can’t wait for Cat to lead our team and grow the list in even more exciting directions."
The latest "cover reveal" is for
Sue Monk Kidd's January 7, 2014 release, THE
INVENTION OF WINGS.
The 14-title longlist
for the FT/Goldman
Sachs Business Book of the Year award was released. The
six-title shortlist will be announced next month.
Mystery author Barbara Mertz, who
wrote over 35 books as Elizabeth
Peters and 29 suspense novels as Barbara
Michaels, died yesterday at home in Frederick, MD. She was 85.
Earlier this week Canada's dominant
bookseller Indigo reported a 8.1 percent decrease in sales of C$171.5 million
for the fiscal first quarter ending June 29, with a net loss of C$15 million
(far greater than the $5.5 million loss for the same period a year ago.) Indigo
attributed the revenue drop to "declining book and eReader sales," as
compared to the last year's "strong sales of the Fifty Shades and Hunger
Games trilogies." They also closed 8 stores in the intervening year.
Superstore
sales comps were down 7.1 percent, small-format store comps fell 13.1 percent,
and even online sales remained flat for the quarter, at $17.8 million. EBITDA
remained negative compared to a year ago, with losses widening to $14.4 million
(compared to a loss of $2.3 million in the first quarter last year.) Their
nonbook merchandise continues to expand thanks to "double-digit
growth" in lifestyle, paper and toy sales, while the revenue-sharing
agreement Indigo has with Kobo again increased "due to the growth in
digital reading."
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