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Ingram Adds Random House to MyiLibrary
Random House will add more than 36,000 titles to Ingram’s MyiLibrary e-book platform beginning in February.
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Stephen King Book Nets $2,850 for Needy Households
Earlier this month, Stephen King signed a rare edition of his book The Regulators in order to help keep boilers burning this winter in the households of low-income families in the Ellsworth, Maine area. The book has sold for $2,850, which will provide 740 gallons of fuel oil. The book sale was coordinated by Scotties Bookhouse owner Michael Riggs.
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Osprey Plans New Imprint
Osprey Publishing, the Oxford-based military history publisher, has announced plans to launch a new imprint called Osprey Adventures.
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Canadian Independent House Launches Short Nonfiction Series
Toronto's Coach House Books is launching a new series of short books on pop culture topics.
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News Briefs: Week of January 21, 2013
November Bookstore Sales Up and more
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Call for Information: Travel Books
Needed: Information on the hottest travel trends.
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The Building Blocks of Penguin Random House
The book industry spent the better part of 2011 watching the slow, painful collapse of Borders. Then there was the Department of Justice inquiry. The DoJ lawsuit against Apple, Penguin, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Macmillan—as well as the reaction to the lawsuit and ensuing settlements—took up much of the industry’s mindshare in 2012.
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Podcast: How Is Penguin-Random House Going to Work?
This week, we look at the huge merger through the lens of the digital age.
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How Publishers Are Taking Advantage of New Opportunities
New strategic avenues for publishers was a recurring theme during the last day of Digital Book World, as topics from acquisition to marketing have all undergone significant makeovers, according to panelists and experts.
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JHU Press Publishes First Instant Book In Response to Gun Violence
Johns Hopkins University Press is moving quickly to inform the national debate on gun control by fast-tracking into publication Reducing Gun Violence: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis, which was acquired less than a week ago and is scheduled to be shipped January 28.
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The Children's Digital Market: Still Uncharted Territory
The growing complexity of the children's digital market was parsed by industry experts at the Publishers Launch Conference in New York on January 15, as panelists and speakers agreed that the transition from print to digital will not be a clean, easy movement and that things are still very much in the experimentation stage.
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Skyhorse Starts New Imprint
Skyhorse Publishing has launched a new imprint called Gary Null Publishing that will feature health and wellness titles.
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Influence of Bookstores and Libraries Eroding for Children
A study by Bowker has found that among children, there has been a marked decline in bookstore and library influence as a source of recommendation and acquisition, and that many purchases are instead migrating online to vendors like Amazon.
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Citing “Content” Issue, Printer Refuses to Print Marie Calloway’s Tyrant Books Debut
Sales of erotic books have surged in the wake of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades success, but does Marie Calloway’s forthcoming Tyrant Books release What Purpose Did I Serve in Your Life cross a line?
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'Going Clear' Angers Church of Scientology
With the first reviews of Lawrence Wright’s book on Scientology, Going Clear, appearing in PW and the New York Times ahead of Knopf’s January 17 release of the book, the Church of Scientology has issued a statement challenging the accuracy of the book. Knopf said it stands behind Wright and “look[s] forward to publishing Going Clear on Thursday.”
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Doubleday Announces Dan Brown's Next Novel
The bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, will publish his next novel in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada on May 14
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News Briefs: Week of January 14, 2013
Weber Gets a Top Post at Macmillan and more
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Penguin Development Group Quietly Pads Slate
Random House has Random House Films. Macmillan has Macmillan Films. And Penguin? Although the house has been low-key about the ways it has begun to dip its corporate toes into film production, and Hollywood, it, too, is making inroads there. One way is with Penguin Development Group.
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NEA Tabs Black Lawrence Press Writers
Ten-year-old Black Lawrence Press, an imprint of Dzanc Books, had its editorial approach to publishing contemporary literature and creative nonfiction affirmed last month when the National Endowment of the Arts chose three of its authors to receive 2013 Literature Fellowships.
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Karin Slaughter Signs Ten-Book Deal with AudioGO
In a major audio deal, AudioGO has signed international bestselling thriller writer Karin Slaughter to an exclusive seven-figure deal for the audio rights to her next 10 thrillers in North America via her representative Victoria Sanders at Victoria Sanders & Associates and Vikki Warner, acquisitions editor at AudioGO.
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