Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

Bertelsmann to Appeal S&S Court Ruling

Bertelsmann to Appeal S&S Court Ruling

Gütersloh / Washington, November, 1, 2022 – Bertelsmann acknowledges the ruling by the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., prohibiting the planned merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. The international media, services, and education company...

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List – Published Wednesday, October 26, 2022 (for the sales week ended Sunday, October 23, 2022). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.

IBPA Names New CEO

IBPA Names New CEO

(Manhattan Beach, CA – October 26, 2022) – Following a three-month search, the Board of Directors of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) announced today that it has hired Andrea Fleck-Nisbet as the association’s new CEO effective November 1, 2022. She...

Astra Publishing Acquires DAW Books

Astra Publishing Acquires DAW Books

Astra Publishing House has acquired DAW Books, the science fiction and fantasy publisher founded in 1971, according to a report in Shelf Awareness. DAW Books was founded in 1971 by veteran paperback editor Donald A. Wollheim, along with his wife, Elsie B. Wollheim,...

Sri Lankan Wins Booker Prize for Second Novel

Sri Lankan Wins Booker Prize for Second Novel

Winner The Booker Prize 2022 Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Published by Sort Of Books (August 2022) Shehan Karunatilaka has won The Booker Prize of 2022 for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The novel is a searing, mordantly...

French writer Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in literature

French writer Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in literature

French Writer Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in literature for 2022, it was announced by the Nobel Foundation on October 6, 2022. The 82-year-old writer is known for works that blur the line between memoir and fiction. The Prize was given “for the courage and...