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HC Providing Digital Galleys to Its Authors
HarperCollins has started a new program called e-Insider that will deliver digital galleys to its authors to use in their promotional efforts.
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Bob Miller Starting New NF Division at Macmillan
Bob Miller has a new job. The former publisher of Workman will be starting at Macmillan in July, overseeing what Macmillan is calling a new "standalone company" focused on publishing nonfiction in the U.S.
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Authors on the Air May 28, 2013: Richard Rubin, Philipp Meyer
Two PW Picks authors, Philipp Meyer and Richard Rubin, will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for their books, The Son (Ecco, 978-0062120397) and The Last of the Doughboys (HMH, 978-0547554433), respectively.
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PublicAffairs To Publish Books from 'The Economist'
PublicAffairs has announced that as of October 1, 2013, it will be the publisher of The Economist books in the U.S. and Canada.
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News Briefs: Week of May 25, 2013
Amazon Debuts Fan Fiction Program and more
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The Author as Entrepreneur
Samuel Johnson famously said “no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
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Indie Presses Donate Royalties to Fight Censorship
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) has received an initial payment of $4,750 in royalties from the sale of Read This! Handpicked Favorites from America’s Indie Bookstores, which was published by Coffee House Press in September. Coffee House Press is donating to ABFFE all of the royalties from the sale of Read This!
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Patty Marks: Sex, Romance, and Erotic Bestsellers
PW talks to CEO Patty Marks about the beginnings of Ellora’s Cave, the Akron, Ohio–based publisher of erotic romance fiction, which have become something of a publishing business legend.
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New Harbinger Stays True to Its Roots
When New Harbinger Publications cofounders Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning were establishing their small press in 1973, it was Fanning’s monthly reading of Popular Mechanics magazine that served as a step-by-step guide to book publishing for the partners.
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'Los Angeles Review of Books' Debuts Print Edition
One year after launching its full Web site, the Los Angeles Review of Books has published its first print edition and plans to make it a perfect bound quarterly.
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Ruckus Gets National Science Foundation Grant
Ruckus Media Group, an independent family entertainment company, has received a grant from the United States National Science Foundation to build Read Together While Apart Technology.
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'Inferno' Has Huge Debut, But Below 'The Lost Symbol'
Dan Brown's Inferno posted a massive debut, selling 369,000 copies at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. But how did it compare to the first week sales of his last novel?
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Orbit Announces Moves for Holman, Clarke
Tim Holman, SVP and publisher of the Orbit division at Hachette Book Group in the U.S. and the Orbit imprint of Little, Brown Book Group in the U.K., will be returning to the U.K. with his family later this year. Anne Clarke, currently editorial director of Orbit in the U.K., will relocate from London to New York and take up the role of deputy publisher, reporting to Holman.
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Michigan Writers Series Takes to the Road
A group of Michigan authors took to the state’s highways this past weekend to take part in four unique literary events in four cities, as the Meijer Foundation commits $500,000 to sustain Wayne State University Press’s Made in Michigan Writers Series.
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Review: 'Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography--from Grantham to the Falklands' by Charles Moore
PW's review of Moore's "richly detailed narrative" of Thatcher's life benefits from "prickly interviews" and ultimately portrays a "multidimensional, conflicted figure."
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Marysue Rucci: Moving Beyond ‘Little Bee’
Marysue Rucci said the moment that changed her career came in 1996. At the time she worked for Lisa Drew Books, a now-defunct imprint of Scribner, as an assistant.
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Sookie Stackhouse, Duck Dynasty Top Bestseller List
Charlaine Harris's last Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead Ever After, took #1 on Nielsen BookScan, selling 85,00 copies in the week ending May 12.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Inferno' Still Hot
Dan Brown's Inferno is, unsurprisingly, holding its #1 spot on both the print and e-book bestseller lists on Amazon, as of May 15.
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MPS Acquires Element, Adds K-12 Capability
MPS Limited has reached an agreement to acquire Element, a U.S.-based, full-service editorial, design, and production service provider to the K-12 publishing market.
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