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News Briefs: Week of April 28, 2014
Amazon net income up in quarter and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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The New Frommer’s Turns One
As soon as Arthur Frommer bought back his namesake brand from Google a year ago, he and his daughter Pauline, who is now copublisher and a 50% partner in Frommer Media, quickly got to work on the first new line of guide books.
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The Sociology Book Primed To Become a Trade Hit
University of Chicago Press has a hit in "On the Run," having gone back to press three times and auctioned off the paperback and digital rights.
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Print, Digital Book Sales Settle Down
An analysis of the digital and print sales of seven companies between 2011 and 2013 provides more evidence that the days of rapidly rising e-book sales, and plunging print sales, are likely over for the trade book market.
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Bradt Guides Takes the Road Less Traveled
Hilary Bradt and her former husband George Bradt became book publishers by accident, writing their first travel guide on a river barge floating down a tributary of the Amazon while vacationing in Peru in 1974.
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Hodder Completes Quercus Buy
Quercus CEO and cofounder Mark Smith will be leaving the company, but aiding in the transition.
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MacAdam Cage Authors Look to Resolve E-book Dispute
Despite complaints from former MacAdam Cage authors about e-book royalties and statements, Mark Pearce, publisher of MP Publishing, the e-book distributor that controls their e-book rights, claims all royalties have been paid and all statements are up to date. Pearce is urging former MacAdam Cage authors to contact him to resolve disputes.
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Harvard Rushing to Meet Demand for 'Capital'
With sales of 78,000 copies, Harvard University Press has gone back to press for "Capital in the Twenty-First Century."
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Book Industry Weighs in on Key Free Speech Case
A coalition of publishers, booksellers and libraries argue that pre-enforcement challenges are "a critical tool for protecting free speech."
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Dealing with the Aftermath of MacAdam Cage Publishing
After months of uncertainty, efforts by former authors of MacAdam Cage, the now-defunct San Francisco independent publishing house, to retrieve the print rights to their books appear close to a resolution.
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News Briefs: Week of April 21, 2014
Riggio sells chunk of B&N shares and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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A Mix of University Press Call New England Home: Spotlight On New England 2014
New England is home not only to some of the oldest and largest university presses in the U.S. but to one of the most unique ones—University Press of New England, which represents a consortium of four colleges and universities.
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A Good Time for Independent Presses: Spotlight On New England 2014
Boston-based Beacon Press, the area’s oldest small press, is marking its 160th anniversary this year with a new tag line, “Igniting Hearts and Minds,” and a new colophon that hearkens back to early last century.
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Historically Strong Indie Publishers: Spotlight On New England 2014
For more than a decade, PW’s annual fast-growing independent press feature has included a number of New England–based publishers, with 30-year-old Chelsea Green Publishing leading the way.
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Big Publishers Keep Evolving: Spotlight On New England 2014
New England is home to a number of large and mid-size publishers—the headquarters for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are there, as is Perseus’s Da Capo Press and part of one of the big five trade houses, Hachette.
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New England Has it All: Spotlight On New England 2014
New England may cull up images of bucolic fields, snow-covered mountains, sparkling lakes, and mud season, but it’s also home to a veritable who’s who of bestselling authors ranging from Stephen King, Dan Brown and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Mary Oliver and Julia Glass.
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Sarabande to Open New York Office
The publisher's editorial, production, and development teams will keep a Louisville base.
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Stover Out After OUP Canada Reorganization
David Stover, president of Oxford University Press Canada, is leaving the company as part of a broad reorganization of the academic house that will also eliminate at least three other management positions.
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Cider Mill Makes Foray into Fiction
Michael Smerconish's "Talk" is the first novel acquired by the Kennebunkport, Maine-based publisher.
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