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Crown Reasserts Chopra Connection After Amazon Deal
Deepak Chopra may have signed to do a book with Amazon, but Random House wants everyone to know that the author is still, for the most part, well, a Random House author.
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HarperCollins to Acquire Thomas Nelson
In a deal that will unite the country’s two largest religion book publishers, HarperCollins, parent company of Zondervan, has reached an agreement to acquire Thomas Nelson for an undisclosed price. HC expects to close the purchase before the end of the year.
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Bill O'Reilly Signs New Two-Book Deal With Holt
Conservative pundit and bestseller Bill O'Reilly has re-upped with his new publisher, Henry Holt. O'Reilly's current bestseller, Killing Lincoln, was published by Holt late last month and has gone on to become a bestseller.
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Frankfurt's Buzzed-About Swedish Trilogy Nabbed By Crown
The Swedish trilogy that was the talk of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the first book of which is called The Andalucian Friend, has a U.S. publisher. Crown closed a three-book deal for Alexander Soderberg's debut, along with Harvill Secker in the U.K. and Knopf Canada.
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HarperCollins Buys Newmarket Press
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to the majority of the titles published by Newmarket Press, the independent New York City publisher started in 1981 by Esther Margolis.
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Licensing Hotline: October 2011
After a decades-long hiatus, Charles Schulz's Peanuts characters will make their way back into comic book stores, thanks to a license between BOOM! Studios and Peanuts Worldwide.
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Nelson Nabs Would-be WestBow Author
A first-time author who was headed to Thomas Nelson’s WestBow self-publishing imprint instead will have his first novel published by the Nelson Fiction imprint next summer.
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Black Classic Press Cancels Acquisition of Howard University Press Titles
Black Classic Press is withdrawing from an agreement with Howard University to acquire 84 titles from the Howard University Press backlist, complaining that the university has inexplicably failed to communicate with BCP since announcing the deal back in May.
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A Putin Biography Secretly Lights Up Frankfurt
It was the book that, as one insider put it, you had to “go into a closet to read.” If there was one hush-hush book at Frankfurt this year, it was Masha Gessen’s Vladimir Putin biography, The Man Without a Face.
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Buzzed 'Deadmail' Goes to Doubleday
After we broke the news yesterday about a hot U.S. auction agent Molly Friedrich was coordinating at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the sophomore novel Deadmail, we have word that the novel has been snatched up by Alison Callahan at Doubleday.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2011: Crown Nabs Skloot's New, Untitled Book
Molly Stern at Crown has taken North American rights to the anticipated new book by Rebecca Skloot. The currently untitled work, will explore, as the publisher put it, “the animal-human bond.”
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Levy Home Entertainment Sold to Investment Group
The Chas. Levy Company has sold its sole operating subsidiary, Levy Home Entertainment, to Readerlink, an affiliate of Treesdale Investments, Inc. whose managing partner, Dennis Abboud, had been an executive at Chas. Levy Company from 1994 to 2000.
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Doubleday Acquires Three New Mosley Books
Doubleday has brought Walter Mosley into the fold, acquiring two new books in the author's Easy Rawlins series, as well as a standalone novel.
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Frankfurt 2011 Briefcase: What the American Agents Are Selling
Art Spiegelman gets 'meta' on Maus; Richard Ford heads to the Great White North; Pete Townsend talks 'Tommy' (and life); and Jonathan Evison explores caregiving. These are just some of the authors the American agents will be pushing in the rights center this year.
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Knopf to Publish New Bill Clinton Book
Knopf has acquired world rights to a new book by Bill Clinton called Back to Work, about how the U.S. can overcome its current problems and, as the former President put it, get "back into the future of business."
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Chalberg, Sussman Start Lit Agency
Agents Terra Chalberg and Rachel Sussman are hanging up their own shingle, launching Chalberg & Sussman. The pair met ten years ago while working at Simon & Schuster and their new agency will focus on authors doing a range of literary and commercial fiction and nonfiction.
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Google Buys Zagat
After earlier attempts to find a buyer fell through, Zagat has been acquired by Google. According to a post from Google v-p, local, maps and location services Marissa Mayer, “Zagat will be a cornerstone of our local offering.”
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Thomas Nelson Acquires First WestBow Title
When Thomas Nelson and AuthorSolutions established the WestBow Press self-publishing division in 2009 the idea was that the unit would provide a testing ground for aspiring authors. Yesterday, Nelson acquired its first WestBow adult title, signing Marcia Moston’s Call of a Coward for publication next summer in trade paperback.
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Deals, Week of August 29, 2011
Krauss Closes Double at Rodale, and more.
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