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Second quarter deals declined somewhat overall (-4.7 percent), due to a big drop in reports from digital publishers, though in our core categories — nonfiction; fiction; and children’s — the totals were nearly flat. (Those categories comprise the first three bars in the chart below.) That’s similar to, or ahead of the second quarter of 2024, following a strong first quarter which featured an early London Book Fair. As was the case a year ago, adult sales actually rose slightly in the second quarter, for the third year in a row, as children’s deals declined again, down 7.9 percent. Adult …
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Neena Noon's TO VEX AND TO HEX, pitched as EX HEX meets VERY IRREGULAR SOCIETY OF WITCHES, in which, when her beloved boss is injured, a misfit witch with book magic is determined to get rid of the arrogant absentee grandson who has arrived to take over her cherished book shop, but he proves a tough adversary in more ways than one, and it's not long before the insults aren't the only thing flying between them, to Vicki Lame at St. Martin's, in a good deal, in an exclusive … read more
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