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Loh Leaving Bloomsbury Amid Restructuring

Loh Leaving Bloomsbury Amid Restructuring By Jim Milliot | Bloomsbury has restructured the consumer division of Bloomsbury USA. Under the realignment, v-p and publishing director Cindy Loh, along with two other employees, will leave the publisher. Adrienne Vaughan, Bloomsbury USA executive director and chief operating officer, will assume the publishing director duties.With the restructuring, Loh’s direct editorial reports—Nancy Miller, associate publisher and editorial director; Liese Mayer, adult fiction editorial director; and Mary Kate Castellani, children's editorial director—will report to Vaughan. In a statement, Vaughan thanked Loh for her efforts in moving Bloomsbury’s adult fiction in a new direction and for “leading the children’s division through the development of major bestselling and award-winning authors including Sarah J. Maas, Brigid Kemmerer and Renée Watson.” Vaughan added that she plans to build on Bloomsbury’s foundation “to further establish Bloomsbury as a leading publisher in the U.S. market,” pointing to recent bestsellers as Carol Anderson’s

This Week's Bestsellers: February 8, 2021

The #1 book in the country is Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson, who died two days after its publication, at age 96. “In her spirited debut memoir,” our review said, “actor Tyson recalls her extraordinary life, as well as the racial and gender stereotyping, movie-business prejudice, and ill-behaved men that shaped her seven-decade career.” Several of her lauded performances originated in books, including her Oscar-nominated turn in 1972’s Sounder, adapted from William H. Armstrong’s Newbery Medal winner, and her Emmy-winning starring role in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, the 1974 TV movie adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’s novel.

Sales of Print Books End January on High Note

Sales of Print Books End January on High Note By Jim Milliot | Feb 04, 2021 Unit sales of print book rose 19.5% in the week ended January 30, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The increase marks the third consecutive week unit sales increased by at least 19% compared to 2020. For the month of January, print unit sales were 21.3% higher than January 2020. As has been the case for most of January, sales were up by double digits in all major categories. The four children’s publishing segments saw the largest gains. Unit sales of young adult fiction increased by 50.6% over a year ago, and young adult nonfiction sales rose 41.2%. In YA fiction, sales of supernatural/horror rose by 113% over the week ended February 1, 2020.

Noteworthy Picture Book and Novel Sequels: January 2021