http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ Publishers Lunch is the industry's "daily essential read," now shared with well over 13,000 publishing people every day. Each report gathers together stories from all over the web and print of interest to the professional trade book community, along with original reporting, plus a little perspective and the occasional wisecrack added in. en Copyright 2010 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:56:11 -0500 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Michael Campbell joins becker&mayer! in the new position of vp, sales, marketing & new business development. He has previously been director of sales and marketing at three Pacific Northwest publishers: Martingale, Timber Press, and most recently Graphic Arts. Ryan Kelly joins the company as international sales associate (he worked in specialty retail sales for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and Amy Levenson has been promoted to group manager, international sales.

Debbie Harmsen joins BenBella Books as editor-in-chief of the general nonfiction line. She has worked for magazines, newspapers and book publishers, most recently editing travel guides at Random House.

HCI Books has announced a new line, Vows, combining romance and memoir, to launch in October 2010. They dub it "reality-based romance," producing novels
"based on personal interviews with real couples whose love stories read like the best in romantic fiction." Launch authors include veterans Judith Arnold, Alison Kent, and Julie Leto. ]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006225.php Free New Imprints Personnel Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:56:11 -0500  
On Wednesday Dan Clancy from Google tried to open the door to brainstorming how Google can help retailers sell ebooks from physical stores. The starting principle is that "when you buy a digital book from a physical store, it needs to be simple." A sample notion was to ask, what if it's as simple as taking a digital picture of the book's bar code with a phone (and credit the store for the sale). Though cards redeemable for ebooks (like Symtio's product) have not taken off and present limited inventory, he suggested there could be a kiosk to produce such cards. Most importantly, he underscored that if bookstores are capturing customer e-mail addresses it makes it a lot easier to sell ebooks or fulfill e and print bundles, since they can email the customer a unique link in order to download their ebook. And that emphasizes stores' core goal, which is "how do you maintain your relationship with the customer even on the device" instead of turning them over to the device manufacturer.

Clancy also believes "bundling is a key component in this blended world." (At the panel of publishing executives, however, Madeline McIntosh from Random House said they were still "wrestling with what is the value of that digital file" and are still stuck on the idea that giving away an ebook along with a print book, or selling it as a cheap upgrade makes it hard to "turn around and say that the ebook in and of itself has value, and we don't want our ebooks to be low priced.)
 
Clancy also predicated that "personally, I think the tablet--not just the Apple tablet--is the way of the future in ereading." To that end, ignoring the issues of small retailers selling expensive electronics, he speculated that stores could sell tablets and be established as the default place the customer buys ebooks from those units.

But Clancy did acknowledge that earlier visions of how the revenue splits might work for Google Editions has changed and while Google can help stores, it can't save them. "The margins on digital books are going to be less than the margins on physical books. Even if Google takes a small amount, the margin is still shrinking."

At a booksellers panel on Thursday, Mitch Kaplan of Books & Books, Roxanne Coady of RJ Julia, and Steve Bercu of Book People presented new ventures that are working well for their stores. Kaplan's presentation was both the most conventional and yet the most challenging--since he ultimately called for scan-based compensation, or true consignment. Picking up on the theme that has dominated ebooks this week, he said that he was "heartened to hear people talking about agency plans" and hopeful that they "might be able to do it in our sales channels as well."

"The value we bring to the table is far greater than the way its expressed these days," Kaplan said, suggesting that if they are valuable partners to publishers "then they need to get off our backs a bit from the credit side." Kaplan noted his biggest business challenges have been "the price of our rents and cash flow; keeping the levels of inventory high, so that we can sell those books we need to sell without being hassled perpetually by credit departments."

Kaplan has pursued this model successfully with illustrated books publisher Assouline, which initially "rented" a boutique space within his store, along with paying a small commission on sales, which helped Kaplan meet his monthly rent. But over time it has evolved into more a pure pay-on-sale model. Since Assouline's books are expensive Kaplan previously could not afford to carry much of their inventory, even if it turned. Under their evolving new arrangement, the store went from selling $ 7,000 of Assouline books a year to selling $ 30,000 worth in January alone, and closer to $ 130,000 worth of titles a year.

Kaplan said that he has been talking with publishers about his vision for this new way of selling. While it may be well suited to expensive inventory (like Assouline's) and selected backlist programs (like an entire line of classics),
whenever I have asked publishers about scan-based compensation, they literally shriek (or grimace)--in part because of the major accounting challenges in switching over. But the new ebook sales model has definitely put the idea back on the table. Agent Andrew Zack writes today at the Huffington Post: "Imagine if publishers turned brick-and-mortar bookstores into 'agents' who got a thirty-percent commission?"

Coady's new idea is a web-based venture, Just the Right Book, which sells personalized book-of-the-month "subscriptions" to regular mailings of books, and one-time "libraries" of books for kids of particular ages and newborns, all selected by her booksellers. She says that "it's basically waiting on a customer, online."

Coady came to the idea after a four-month sabbatical of rigorous study and interviews examining, and thinking about how to reinvent, her business. She realized that "what we knew how to do was put the right book in the right hands. We're not so good at operations or technology."

Ron Johnson--who led a turnaround at Target that included their emphasis on design--was the one who suggested that "you are in the ernichment business" and told her to "think about adding value to your customer's experience."

One surprise so far has been "a higher average ticket" than she projected, with an average sale worth $ 199.
http://justtherightbook.com/

In third presentation, Bercu described the development of literary summer camps for kids--regular summer camps which also feature books, and "counselors" who include a classic professor from the University of Texas teaching about greek mythology. The program was suggested by a store employee, and benefited from "a big assist" from author Rick Riordan. Camp Half-Blood uses the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series "to engage the imagination, mind and body," and there is a Rangers' Apprentice camp as well.
http://www.bookpeople.com/index.php?com=camps

Bercu made it clear the programs were not an instant success (with 51 attendees the first, year, and net revenue of $ 789.) But it has grown to the point where the programs sell out as soon as they are offered. "This year we had a line outside the store of desparate parents wanting to get their kids into the camp."

The following presentation added the experiences of Village Bookstore and Northshire Bookstore with the Espresso book machine. They underscored, as has been reported before, that nearly all of the business with the machine is for self-publishing. Village Books also has their own imprint, putting regional titles back into print. As we have pointed out before, bookstores don't need to make the $ 100,000+ investment in their own machine to get into either the local publishing business or the self-publishing business. It's easy to contract for the printing off-site and still offer the exact same services in your store.
 ]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006222.php Bookstores Free Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:54:52 -0500 Aliza Fogelson has been promoted to senior editor, after five years there, and Angelin Borsics has been promoted to assistant editor, both still reporting to Doris Cooper. Ashley Phillips has been promoted to assistant editor, continuing to report to Rica Allannic and Rosy Ngo.

In the Knopf and Crown editorial department at Random House Children's Books, Michele Burke has been promoted to editor and Allison Wortche has been promoted to associate editor.

Former longtime editor of Travel & Leisure Golf and a founding editor of Men's Journal, John Atwood is joining Rodale Books an executive editor, reporting to Karen Rinaldi.]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006221.php Free Personnel Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:27:39 -0500
Thirty percent still use at least one other device, like a computer or smartphone, for reading, and 34 percent would like to see a color screen. No big surprise, and the favorite feature was wireless access, named by 60 percent of the people.
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Young writes: "There are many advantages to the agency model, for our authors, retailers, consumers, and publishers. It allows Hachette to make pricing decisions that are rational and reflect the value of our authors' works. In the long run this will enable Hachette to continue to invest in and nurture authors' careers - from major blockbusters to new voices. Without this investment in our authors, the diversity of books available to consumers will contract, as will the diversity of retailers, and our literary culture will suffer."

He also underscores that "these new terms open doors to all online e-book service providers and create more avenues for delivering e-books to readers."

Noting that under the new model "we make less on each e-book sale under the new model; the author will continue to be fairly compensated and our e-book agents will make money on every digital sale. We're willing to accept lower return for e-book sales as we control the value of our product - books, and content in general. We're taking the long view on e-book pricing, and this new model helps protect the long term viability of the book marketplace."

The press is on full alert on this story and will make every declaration by a house "breaking news," but we'll just remind you that five big houses essentially announced their adoption of the agency model last week by signing agreements with Apple.

Also yesterday afternoon, the Authors Guild posted that--as implied in a Guild/AAR panel discussion last month--John "Sargent confirmed that Macmillan's standard e-book royalty would be 25% of receipts under their new boilerplate contract." (Note that Sargent himself has not commented on this.) They add that "we look forward to continuing to discuss with Macmillan other provisions of its proposed new contract." Meanwhile, a number of agents tweeted "25 percent of what?" after the posting, which is the new question that the agency model raises. Sargent said in his letter yesterday, "the change to an agency model will bring about yet another round of discussion on royalties, and we look forward to solving this next step in the puzzle with you."
AG]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006219.php Free eNews Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:47:42 -0500 This message ran as a paid advertisement in the February 4 edition of Publishers Lunch.

To: Macmillan Authors and Illustrators
cc: Literary Agents
From: John Sargent

I am sorry I have been silent since Saturday. We have been in constant discussions with Amazon since then. Things have moved far enough that hopefully this is the last time I will be writing to you on this subject.

Over the last few years we have been deeply concerned about the pricing of electronic books. That pricing, combined with the traditional business model we were using, was creating a  market that we believe was fundamentally unbalanced. In the last three weeks, from a standing start we have moved to a new business model. We will make less money on the sale of e books, but we will have a stable and rational market. To repeat myself from last Sunday's letter, we will now have a business model that will ensure our intellectual property will be available digitally through many channels, at a price that is both fair to the consumer and that allows those who create and publish it to be fairly compensated.

We have also started discussions with all our other partners in the digital book world. While there is still lots of work to be done, they have all agreed to move to the agency model.

And now on to royalties. Three or four weeks ago, we began discussions with the Author's Guild on their concerns about our new royalty terms. We indicated then that we would be flexible and that we were prepared to move to a higher rate for digital books. In ongoing discussions with our major agents at the beginning of this week, we began informing them of our new terms. The change to an agency model will bring about yet another round of discussion on royalties, and we look forward to solving this next step in the puzzle with you.

A word about Amazon. This has been a very difficult time. Many of you are wondering what has taken so long for Amazon and Macmillan to reach a conclusion. I want to assure you that Amazon has been working very, very hard and always in good faith to find a way forward with us. Though we do not always agree, I remain full of admiration and respect for them. Both of us look forward to being back in business as usual.

And a salute to the bricks and mortar retailers who sell your books in their stores and on their related websites. Their support for you, and us, has been remarkable over the last week. From large chains to small independents, they committed to working harder than ever to help your books find your readers.

Lastly, my deepest thanks to you, our authors and illustrators. Macmillan and Amazon as corporations had our differences that needed to be resolved. You are the ones whose books lost their buy buttons. And yet you have continued to be terrifically supportive of us and of what we are trying to accomplish. It is a great joy to be your publisher.

I cannot tell you when we will resume business as usual with Amazon, and needless to say I can promise nothing on the buy buttons. You can tell by the tone of this letter though that I feel the time is getting near to hand.


All best,
John]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006218.php Free eNews Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:56:20 -0500 Lynn Henry is moving to Doubleday Canada as publishing director, starting March 1. She will acquire her own list, and senior editors Amy Black, Nina Pronovost and Tim Rostron will report to her.

At Random House, under editorial director Jennifer Hershey, Jessica Waters, Courtney Moran, Courtney Turco and Clare Swanson to have all been promoted and are now assistant editors.

Kathleen Tucker will retire as editor-in-chief at Albert Whitman & Company on April 30. A search for a replacement is underway.

UK consumer research organization Book Marketing (BML) has been bought by Bowker, "part of an ongoing programme of licensing and divestment by [parent] Publishing News" following the death of Fred Newman. Next PN is looking to license the British Book Awards (aka the Nibbies). Bowker will integrate the unit into Bowker Publisher Services. Jo Henry and colleagues Steve Bohme and Rachel Levin will stay with the organization and move to Bowker's UK office next week.

In other announcements, Baker & Taylor's POD operation TextStream Digital Print Service has picked up a volume client. They will print and fulfill orders for PublishAmerica, which claims to have 40,000 titles, and offer those titles to their library and retail customers.
Release]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006216.php Free Personnel Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:22:20 -0500 Howard W. Reeves, publisher of Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books, will become editor-at-large of the company.

Following Brendan Deneen's departure, FinePrint Literary Management has hired Pouya Shahbazian as a literary manager/producer, specializing in book-to-film and TV deals for clients and also running FinePrint Productions, producing and packaging film and television projects.

He co-founded ManDown Pictures & Management in 2007 after working at the Broder-Webb-Chervin-Silbermann Agency.

CEO of Activision's Guitar Hero franchise (and before that chief operating officer at Yahoo) Daniel Rosensweig has joined online textbook rental company Chegg.com as president and ceo.

At Publishing Technology, Douglas Wright relinquishes his management responsibility of Scholarly Online to become director of the Publishers Communication Group and international business development. Louise Tutton is promoted to coo, Scholarly Online, and will assume sole responsibility for this division.

BookMasters Distribution Services has hired Tony Proe as vp of business development for BookMasters. He founded the rep group Proe & Proe Associates, eventually merging into the Empire Group.

In the announcements category, online social recommendation site GetGlue began a three-month pilot program with publishers including Random House, Harper Studio, FSG, Hachette, and Wiley. It's another way to get online exposure for a book before a population of people targeted as potentially interested in your products because of their demonstrated interest in something similar--in exchange for some free books and postage. (Universal pictures is also participating.) Unlike other book social networks with similar promotional vehicles, GetGlue works across all media--so giveaways can be targeted against related movies, music and video games as well as books. As TechCrunch notes, "targeting influencers is a well-worn strategy in brand marketing, but with online services like Glue it is becoming easier to figure out who are those influencers."
Info page

Also note, there was an error on Barnes & Noble Discover Awards press release yesterday; Toby Lester's 4th Part of the World is published by Free Press.]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006211.php Free Personnel eNews Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:30:32 -0500
Fiction
Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another (HarperPerennial)
Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
C. E. Morgan, All the Living (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
 
Nonfiction
Dave Cullen, Columbine (Twelve)
Toby Lester, The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America Its Name (Twelve)
Neil White, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (William Morrow)
Release]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006208.php Awards Bookstores Free Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:26:55 -0500 Princeton Architectural Press founder and publisher Kevin Lippert has bought back the company from Springer Verlag, which has owned the press since 1997. He says in the announcement, "It has been a pleasure to be part of the Springer family for these many years...but the strategic directions of our two businesses were diverging so quickly that a partnership no longer made sense. Our new independent status will provide us with the opportunity to use the innovations we've learned from Springer, particularly in electronic books, to continue to broaden the scope of what design publishing constitutes." http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006207.php Finance Free Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:01:30 -0500
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association has given voice to the concerns of their members in an open letter to publishers: "Restricting field reps to large stores will give publishers a skewed view of what is a very diverse world--independent bookselling." And the group underscores, "without a doubt, we are not ordering as much through telemarketing.... The vicious cycle is that we buy less because we don't have sales reps, and then you devalue our business because we aren't buying as much as we used to."

Among the things they value: "We learn about other stores from them, what others are reading and loving; what is selling; marketing tips; event ideas; what the publisher is doing; and what authors have books coming out in the next season. They make fans for authors out of our frontline booksellers."

They suggest other, better ways for publishers to save money: "Cut multiple ARC mailings. Do away with promotional gimmicks that go from mailbox to garbage can."]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006206.php Bookstores Free Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:12:20 -0500 Robin Dennis is joining Oneworld Publications as Oneworld as a senior commissioning editor for popular science, social science, psychology, and current affairs. Previously, she was a senior editor at Times Books.

Martha Guzman has joined the Maria Carvainis Agency as the contract/subsidiary rights manager. She previously worked as associate manager, domestic rights at Random House.

Caroline Hardman has moved to the Christopher Little Literary Agency as an agent. She was at The Marsh Agency for six years.

William Preston joins Sourcebooks in the new position of senior account executive - mass market and new business development. He has previously served as svp of retail sales for Baker & Taylor, and most recently as vp, North American business development for Gardners Books.

Simon & Schuster's new telemarketing sales group comprises Anna Carlino, who was most recently a national account manager; Karen Fink, currently in their marketing department, after 20 years at Random House that included working as a telemarketing rep; Stuart Smith, currently on their sales & client communications team; and Hilary Lowe, presently a customer driven publishing sales coordinator in their Premium group.]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006202.php Free Personnel Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:02:30 -0500 Editors' note: This message ran as a paid advertisement in a special Saturday edition of Publishers Lunch

To: All Macmillan authors/illustrators and the literary agent community
From: John Sargent

This past Thursday I met with Amazon in Seattle. I gave them our proposal for new terms of sale for e books under the agency model which will become effective in early March. In addition, I told them they could stay with their old terms of sale, but that this would involve extensive and deep windowing of titles. By the time I arrived back in New York late yesterday afternoon they informed me that they were taking all our books off the Kindle site, and off Amazon. The books will continue to be available on Amazon.com through third parties.

I regret that we have reached this impasse. Amazon has been a valuable customer for a long time, and it is my great hope that they will continue to be in the very near future. They have been a great innovator in our industry, and I suspect they will continue to be for decades to come.

It is those decades that concern me now, as I am sure they concern you. In the ink-on-paper world we sell books to retailers far and wide on a business model that provides a level playing field, and allows all retailers the possibility of selling books profitably. Looking to the future and to a growing digital business, we need to establish the same sort of business model, one that encourages new devices and new stores. One that encourages healthy competition. One that is stable and rational. It also needs to insure that intellectual property can be widely available digitally at a price that is both fair to the consumer and allows those who create it and publish it to be fairly compensated.

Under the agency model, we will sell the digital editions of our books to consumers through our retailers. Our retailers will act as our agents and will take a 30% commission (the standard split today for many digital media businesses). The price will be set the price for each book individually. Our plan is to price the digital edition of most adult trade books in a price range from $ 14.99 to $ 5.99. At first release, concurrent with a hardcover, most titles will be priced between $ 14.99 and $ 12.99. E books will almost always appear day on date with the physical edition. Pricing will be dynamic over time.

The agency model would allow Amazon to make more money selling our books, not less. We would make less money in our dealings with Amazon under the new model. Our disagreement is not about short-term profitability but rather about the long-term viability and stability of the digital book market.

Amazon and Macmillan both want a healthy and vibrant future for books. We clearly do not agree on how to get there. Meanwhile, the action they chose to take last night clearly defines the importance they attribute to their view. We hold our view equally strongly. I hope you agree with us.

You are a vast and wonderful crew. It is impossible to reach you all in the very limited timeframe we are working under, so I have sent this message in unorthodox form. I hope it reaches you all, and quickly. Monday morning I will fully brief all of our editors, and they will be able to answer your questions. I hope to speak to many of you over the coming days.

Thanks for all the support you have shown in the last few hours; it is much appreciated.

All best,
John]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006197.php Free Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:28:46 -0500 Marysue Rucci will move to Putnam on March 15 as editorial director where she will "build her own roster of authors and help the Putnam imprint acquire and develop new bestselling franchises both in fiction and nonfiction." Rucci will report to president Ivan Held (and editor-in-chief Neil Nyren, Amy Einhorn and Marian Wood will also continue to report to Held). Rucci has been executive editor at Simon & Schuster, where she has worked for 13 years.

Brendan Deneen has joined Thomas Dunne Books as an editor. He was an agent at FinePrint Literary.

Nicole Reardon has been promoted to associate director of marketing at Harper.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has the late Louis Auchincloss's next book and first memoir, A VOICE FROM OLD NEW YORK, scheduled for publication in December.

Among the many interesting but less obvious stories in remembrance of JD Salinger, 91, consider:

From Vermont, Salinger's wife Colleen expresses gratitude for the "protective envelope" given the author by his neighbors in Cornish, NH. One resident calls it "one of the most enjoyable municipal conspiracies ever, how to keep everyone guessing where Jerry Salinger lived." Among other things, "Until last year, Salinger was a regular at the Hartland Congregational Church's roast beef suppers, arriving more than two hours early for the first seating." Harold Ober Associates reports that Salinger was in excellent health until a "rather sudden decline" this month.
AP

Orchises Press publisher Roger Lathbury tells the story of how he almost published Hapworth 16, 1924 in book form in 1997--until he gave the info in a Library of Congress filing and a short follow-up interview.
Washington Post

For New Yorker subscribers, they have provided online links to all thirteen Salinger stories published in the magazine.]]> http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/free/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006190.php Free Personnel Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:27:24 -0500 One Amazing Thing: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Voice, $ 23.99, 9781401340995)
Horns: A Novel by Joe Hill (Morrow, $ 25.99, 9780061147951)
One Good Dog: A Novel by Susan Wilson (St. Martin's, $ 22.99, 9780312571252)
The Surrendered: A Novel by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead, $ 26.95, 9781594489761)
The Journal Keeper: A Memoir by Phyllis Theroux (Atlantic Monthly, $ 24, 9780802118974)
The Dream of Perpetual Motion: A Novel by Dexter Palmer (St. Martin's, $ 24.99, 9780312558154)
Making Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt (Ecco, $ 21.99, 9780061825934)
Angelology: A Novel by Danielle Trussoni (Viking, $ 27.95, 9780670021475)
House Rules: A Novel by Jodi Picoult (Atria, $ 28, 9780743296434)
Bone Fire: A Novel by Mark Spragg (Knopf, $ 25.95, 9780307272751)
Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin (Scribner, $ 15, 9781439148952)
The Hole We're In: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin (Grove, $ 14 paper, 9780802119230)
After the Workshop: A Novel by John McNally (Counterpoint, $ 15.95 paper, 9781582435602)
The Crimson Rooms: A Novel by Katharine McMahon (Putnam, $ 25.95, 9780399156229)
The Man From Beijing: A Novel by Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson (trans.) (Knopf, $ 25.95, 9780307271860)
Impatient With Desire: A Novel by Gabrielle Burton (Voice, $ 22.99, 9781401341015)
Claiming Ground by Laura Bell (Knopf, $ 24.95, 9780307272881)
Postcards From a Dead Girl: A Novel by Kirk Farber (Harper Perennial, $ 13.99 paper, 9780061834479)
The House of Tomorrow: A Novel by Peter Bognanni (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $ 24.95, 9780399156090)

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