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Spring 2015 Announcements: Music: It’s All About the Blues, and Rhythm
The spring, music bios cross cultural lines; R & B stands out.
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Spring 2015 Announcements: Memoir & Biographies: So This Is What Happened
The story of a city, a time; the story of recovery, escape; the story of coming-of-age; the story of a career...
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Spring 2015 Announcements: Literary Biographies, Essays & Criticism: Lives in Letters
This season’s literary nonfiction looks at what it means to devote your life to the written word.
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Spring 2015 Announcements: Lifestyle: Death and Dieting
Books on happiness, heaven, and heft continue to find new readers.
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Spring 2015 Announcements: History & Military History: It’s All Relative
The sinking of the Lusitania, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and recent national tragedies are all hot topics in the history books this season.
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Spring 2015 Announcements: Art, Architecture, & Photography: In the Mind of the Artist
Let’s face it: art doesn’t always speak for itself. Luckily, this season’s art books, which include memoirs, unpublished notebooks, and personal narratives, give readers access to artists’ creative processes.
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Traveling Companions: Travel Books 2015
Since PW last surveyed the travel landscape a year ago, guidebook publishers have continued their quest to stay relevant in the digital age.
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A Sampling of Travel Narratives for Spring 2015
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Map vs. App: Travel Books 2015
Road atlases—those bulky mainstays of cross-country family road trips—may seem obsolete in the era of GPS and navigation apps, but don’t close the book on paper maps just yet.
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The Rise and... Rise of Indie Travel Guides: Travel Books 2015
Traditionally, major-destination guidebooks have hued closely to the same formula since the era of Karl Baedeker’s mid-19th century European overviews for grand tourists—manuals expounding must-visit sites, restaurants, and hotels, brought to market by well-known houses.
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A Selection of Gift Books, Spring 2015
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Gift Books Gain More Bookseller Fans
The odd, the quirky, and the humorous have long been bookstore staples. But in the last five years interest in gift books has steadily grown, and not just during the holidays.
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Put a Bow on It: Gift Books Continue to Grow
More and more publishers are shoring up their bottom lines with specialty gift books, and the lucrative category is no longer all about inexpensive, small-format impulse buys.
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Personal Finance Titles: Winter–Spring 2015
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Saving Graces: Personal Finance 2014
The faith-finance connection has a long history.
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Start Me Up: Personal Finance 2014
Some 400–600 personal finance titles are published each year, according to Bowker statistics, making up less than one-fifth of 1% of the publishing landscape.
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Notable African-American-Interest Titles, Fall 2014–Spring 2015
A selective listing of notable African-American titles that includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels and books for young readers.
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African-American Interest Adult Titles, 2014-2015
Current and forthcoming African-American interest books for adult readers published between September 2014 and March 2015.
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More of the Season’s Diet & Fitness Titles: Winter 2014–Spring 2015
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Losing Weight, Gaining Readers: Diet & Fitness 2014
Like any autobiographical work, a diet memoir offers the voyeuristic thrill of peeking into someone else’s life. And if that person is a celebrity, so much the better.
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