Publishers Weekly - 02.09.2019

Volume 266
Number 35
ISSN 0000-

September 2,

2019

Features

29 Fall Regionals
Booksellers gather at this year’s fall trade shows to share their
strengths and struggles.

71 Big Indie Books of Fall
We surveyed the season’s offerings from independent and university
presses and came up with a list of 20 books that readers shouldn’t
miss.

80 Sherlock Holmes on the Couch
Nicholas Meyer returns with The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols,
his first Sherlock Holmes novel in 26 years.

News

8 Mixed First Half to 2019
Penguin Random House posted the strongest gains among public
trade publishers.

9 Print Unit Sales Rose 1.2% in Late August
Solid gains in the juvenile categories lifted unit sales of print books
1.2% in the week ended Aug. 24, 2019, over the comparable week
in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.

9 Webtoon Builds an Audience for Webcomics
Webtoon, a digital publishing platform that offers webcomics, is
launching a series of graphic novel adaptations of young adult prose
novels.

15 Audible to Exclude Select Works from Captions
In a filing in federal court on August 28, Audible agreed to exclude
a group of major publishers’ works from its Captions program until
permission and licensing issues raised in a recent lawsuit are
resolved.

18 Deals
Del Rey unveils a new Max Brooks novel, a Pushcart Prize winner
sells a romance trilogy, a National Book Award winner sells a picture
book, and more.

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