P UBLISHERSW EEKLY. COM J UNE 4, 2018 ON SALE 9/11/18 Volume 265 June 4, Number 23 2018 ISSN 0000-0019 F EATURES 20 Western Manga’s New Golden Age The boom in North American manga publishing is being driven by some surprise hits that suggest fans in the West are ready for titles that would have been considered too risky in the past. 26 If You See Something, Write It A.M. Homes’s first short story collection in 28 years, The Days of Awe, showcases her sharp dialogue, her humor, and her keen visual sense. 1–32 Children’s Institute 2018 ABA’s mini–Winter Institute, focused on children’s books, authors, and bookselling, heads to the Big Easy June 19–21 to mark its sixth anniversary. N EWS 5 BookExpo 2018 After a confusing opening day at the trade show, publishers and booksellers settled into discussing industry issues and getting ready for the fall season. 6 Fiction Softness Leads to Sales Dip in Late May Texas Book Festival 2018 Print unit sales in the week ended May 27 fell 1% from the similar week last year, with declines in adult and juvenile fiction offsetting Celebrating our 23rd year. gains in nonfiction. 8 NYRF Maps a Booming Marketplace The inaugural New York Rights Fair was held last week at the Metro- Two days 250+ authors politan Pavilion and brought together 70 panelists from all over the world. The event served as the official rights fair of BookExpo. The biggest book party in Texas, in 9 S&S Staffers Take Book from Screen to Page support of libraries and literacy. A roman à clef by a character on the TV show Younger, which is set in the New York publishing world, is being published in June by Simon & Schuster. Author lineup revealed in August! 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Podcasts Week Ahead PW senior writer Andrew Albanese reports from the oor of a reimagined BookExpo. publishersweekly.com/weekahead publishersweekly.com/kokila publishersweekly.com/pwradio280 4 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 News BookExpo 2018 After a confusing opening day at the trade show, publishers and booksellers settled into discussing industry issues and getting ready for the fall season he year’s edition of BookExpo loor caused for book buyers and, in some kicked off Wednesday, May cases, publishers. 30, at New York’s Javits Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari was one of Center with a well-received the exhibitors in the section that opened Tpep talk by Barnes & Noble chairman on Wednesday. CEO Michael Kerber said B&N chairman Len Riggio delivered the Len Riggio on the importance of physical that though he had retailer traffic and opening keynote speech. bookstores and lots of confusion over the conducted meetings that day, it was clear split nature of the exhibition loor. Under that book buyers were frustrated because said she had no idea that parts of the floor a plan implemented this year by they couldn’t visit all of the houses they were open to publishers on Wednesday. BookExpo organizer Reed Exhibitions, came to see until Thursday. Kerber gave Another new element that caused publishers had the option to exhibit Reed credit for trying some new things some confusion throughout the three Thursday and Friday at BookExpo and to improve the show, but said it is not days of BookExpo was the inaugural Saturday and Sunday at the consumer- clear in which direction Reed wants to New York Rights Fair (see “New York focused BookCon, which was also at move event. Rights Fair Maps a Booming Javits, or to exhibit for all three days of The biggest company taking advantage Marketplace,” p. 8), which ran concur- BookExpo but not at BookCon. As a of the three-day BookExpo option was the rently with BookExpo at the Metropolitan result, the roughly 150 companies that Ingram Content Group, which had a large Pavilion on West 18th Street. A collabo- exhibited on Wednesday occupied only exhibit for its various service operations, ration between BolognaFiere, which runs about one-quarter of the show floor, as well as a large space for its distribution the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, while the balance of the exhibits were clients, which are part of Ingram Publisher Publishers Weekly, and Combined Book still being set up for a Thursday opening. Services. Phil Ollila, chief content officer Exhibit, NYRF hosted exhibitors from Though the exhibitors had no problems of Ingram, said on Wednesday that he was the U.S. and from around the world. In with Wednesday foot traffic, they had pleased with how things went. “I think it an agreement reached with Reed, NYRF lots of issues with the confusion the split was a good way to start the show,” he became the official rights fair for noted. “It is great to BookExpo, with shuttle buses moving have our distribution between the two locations. A number of clients and our other BookExpo attendees, however, wondered businesses all in one why the center had been moved and said place.” they would like to see NYRF colocate Phillip Ruppel, chief with BookExpo at the Javits next year. operating officer at Logistical concerns aside, this years’s Phaidon, said he was BookExpo featured some of the biggest “very pleased with the names from across the publishing and first day of the show— bookselling businesses.