Archive Dive
For convention season, we took a look through the PW archives to see what kind of coverage we had of the candidates. The most notable of our Clinton coverage comes from 1996 and concerned the audio editions of two of her books—It Takes a Village and Living History. For Village, Clinton had to battle a blizzard to make it to the studio for her recording session. And for Living History, the audiobook came out at the same time as a Harry Potter audiobook, and both were rocketing up the charts.
The meatiest mention of Trump came in the spring 2005 as that year’s season of The Apprentice was winding down and a flood of Trump-related books was hitting the market, including Trump’s own Trump: The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received, authorized Trump biography No Such Thing as Overexposure by Robert Slater, and Donald Trump: Master Apprentice by Gwenda Blair. It was all good business as far as Random House, Trump’s publisher, was concerned. “We are looking forward to publishing a library of books by him,” then editor-in-chief Jonathan Karp said.
From the Newsletters
John Verdon, author of the fair-play mystery Wolf Lake (Counterpoint), picks 10 great whodunits.
The story behind the Herculean publishing effort for Veronica Roth’s next novel, Carve the Mark (Tegen), which has a worldwide one-day laydown in January and will publish concurrently in 33 different languages.
How B&H, David C. Cook, and Baker are teaming up on the Spring 2017 publication of the new Christian Standard Bible.
Enfants de Nazis, a French nonfiction book about the children of Nazi leaders, is selling across the globe.
PW Must Reads
Announcing our new Sunday newsletter, PW Must Reads. It’s a recap of the week’s publishing highlights and content from the current issue of PW. If you subscribe to PW Daily, you’ll be getting Must Reads, too. Or you can sign up for it.
Blogs
That time a really famous actor walked into a bookstore and wasn’t quite recognized by the bookseller.
Podcasts
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese on the political drama surrounding Carla Hayden’s historic confirmation as the 14th librarian of Congress.
The More to Come crew preview next week’s San Diego Comic-Con. Plus, reaction to a recent estimate that puts the North American comics market at $1 billion, the launch of Marvel Now, and more.
Author and screenwriter Delia Ephron discusses her new novel, Siracusa (Blue Rider). PW assistant news editor John Maher explores how Pokémon Go is giving a boost to bookshops.
The most read review of the week (and, as it turns out, of the summer so far) on publishersweekly.com last week was The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley (HMH).
