Book Expo America 2012: All Our Coverage
All of our coverage about Book Expo America 2012, beginning with our pre-BEA issue. more...
Manufacturing
05/16/2012 @ 12:00AM
Gale and Wolper Information Services have partnered to distribute Gale subscription products and major reference works in print and electronic form into the special library market.
Publisher News
05/16/2012 @ 12:00AM
San Francisco author and literary activist Michelle Tea has teamed up with City Lights Publishing to launch the Sister Spit imprint in September with Tea's Sister Spit: Writings, Rants, and Reminiscence.
Publisher News
05/16/2012 @ 12:00AM
On the morning of May 16, Brendon Burchard's The Charge: Activating the 10 Drives That Make You Feel Alive was ahead of every single book except for Fifty Shades of Grey.
Bookselling
05/16/2012 @ 12:00AM
Bookmasters is making its distribution clients’ more than 50,000 POD titles available through the EBM “digital-to-print at retail” sales channel.
People
05/16/2012 @ 12:00AM
Jenny Frost has joined Scholastic as ePublisher and senior v-p eBook strategy. Frost, a long-time Random House executive, left that company in 2008.
People
05/16/2012 @ 12:00AM
David Weber, author of The Food Truck Handbook (Wiley, 978-1118208816), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
Publisher News
05/16/2012 @ 12:00AM
The week leading to Mother’s Day was a good one for print books in general and adult fiction in particular. Unit sales of fiction titles at the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan rose 20% in the week driven by sales of that new favorite Mother’s Day gift—one of the titles from E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy.
People
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
At Algonquin Books, Debra Linn has been named online marketing manager. She was previously the events and marketing director at Books & Books.
Financial Reporting
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
Bookstore sales fell 3.7% in March, to $922 million, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday morning by the Census Bureau. For the first quarter of 2012, bookstore sales fell 2.3%, to $3.94 billion. Store sales fell in every month of the quarter.
Publisher News
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
INscribe has announed a new slate of distribution deals with Harvest House Publishers, Wayne State University Presss, M-Y Books, Folio Literary Management, The Laura Dail Literary Agency, Mercury Ink, Publishing Consultants, and Oberon Books.
The Roundup for Industry News
Publishing news from across the Web
Read "An Open Letter to the DOJ from Someone Who Actually Cares About Writers (and Readers)"
The additions are coming to the Seattle offices.
The Internet service provider has expressed doubt that IP addresses are useful in the search and is concerned about customer privacy.
Court ruling backs use of termination rights for songwriters (and authors) to get rights back to works after 35 years.
Top Bestsellers
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Chomp | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
