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Happy Holidays
This issue of PW Daily is our last regularly scheduled one for 2012. Of course, if news breaks we will send out an alert, and we will continue to post stories to the publishersweekly.com Web site. The PW staff wishes all subscribers a happy holiday season and prosperous new year. The next issue of PW Daily will be January 2, 2013.
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New Wimpy Kid Crosses 1 Million Copies Sold
Book seven of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Third Wheel, has passed the million mark in physical copies sold, according to Nielsen BookScan. The book will end the year as the #6 bestselling book of the year, placing behind only the Fifty Shades trilogy, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay.
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Reidy Touts a Reshaped Simon & Schuster
In her annual letter to employees, Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy’s emphasis was on how the publisher has re-tooled to reach both its traditional audience and the growing number of digital readers.
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Scholastic Imposes Hiring Freeze
As part of its effort to cut costs by $20 million to $30 million in fiscal 2013, Scholastic executives told analysts on a conference call Thursday morning that the company has instituted a hiring freeze and will also reduce staffing levels in some areas.
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Samhain Uploads 2,000 Titles to PubMatch
Samhain Publishing has uploaded over 2,000 titles to PubMatch, complete with full descriptions and EPUB files so that users can view partial contents of each book. The titles were uploaded via Ingram's CoreSource. Currently, the American Library Association is in the process of uploading their last two years of publications via CoreSource, as well.
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Sargent Says Macmillan Will Press Ahead in DoJ Lawsuit
In a letter sent to authors, illustrators and agents Wednesday afternoon, Macmillan CEO John Sargent said that despite Penguin’s decision to settle with the Department of Justice in its e-book pricing-fixing lawsuit, Macmillan’s position “has not changed.” Sargent’s letter didn’t limit itself to the DoJ though, and included his thoughts on “flightless birds and consolidation” and the digital transformation.
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Prairie Lights Starts Small Press
Prairie Lights is launching a small press to supplement its bookstore operations. Prairie Lights Books will be distributed by the University of Iowa Press, which is also producing and marketing the books. The first two Prairie Lights Books titles will be released in spring 2013.
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IBPA Selects MetaComet
The Independent Book Publishers Association selected MetaComet Systems as an approved member benefit provider. IBPA members now qualify for special discounts and benefits on MetaComet Systems’ royalty management software. “We are pleased to offer our members a discount on MetaComet’s services and add MetaComet to the many money-saving goods and services available to IBPA members.” says Florrie Binford Kichler, IBPA president.
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Adventure Launches Mystery Fiction Line
Minnesota's Adventure Publications is expanding into fiction by launching a new line of mystery fiction titles with outdoor/wilderness settings and themes.
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News Briefs: Week of December 17, 2012
European E-book Probe Over and more
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Preparing for the Future
In surveying a number of publishing programs around the country about the effect of digital on publishing and publishing education, a number of buzzwords continually cropped up: Adobe; EPub; Facebook and Twitter; SEO; metadata; transmedia.
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Podcast: Publishing Education in Bits & Bytes
The digital tide is high – and rising – at leading publishing education programs. A Publishers Weekly survey finds more courses than ever on metadata and SEO, with the number of graduates finding digital-driven jobs growing, too. Listen here.
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Tracking Amazon: The Minimal Effect of New E-book Policies
PW spent the week of December 10 monitoring the Amazon Kindle top 10 bestsellers to see if the new e-book policies of three of the big six publishers would affect the charts, but the sales for the week actually showed a decline in sales for e-books with lower, non-agency prices.
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Measuring the National Book Award Sales Effect
Four weeks after the four National Book Awards winners were announced, the scope of the awards' influence on sales is starting to take shape. All four winners have experienced sales spikes, but just how much?
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New York Times Launches E-book Programs
The New York Times has announced the launch of two publishing programs--New York Times short e-books co-published with the digital startup Byliner, and TimesFiles with Vook.
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Nielsen BookScan Adds Walmart
Beginning the first week of January 2013, point-of-sale data from over 4,000 Walmart locations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico will be added to the 12,000 locations that currently report their sales to Nielsen BookScan U.S.
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Tracking Amazon: New E-book Policies Don't Affect Top 10
Only one new e-book title cracked Amazon's top 10 bestsellers on the morning of December 13: the #5 book was Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell, which was the Kindle Daily Deal on December 12, dropped to $1.99 from its normal $7.99.
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Firebrand and Book2Look Agree
Firebrand Technologies has agreed with Book2Look for a North American deal, providing Book2Look's widget for reading and sharing book content alongside Firebrand's Content Services solution.
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Tracking Amazon: Thomas & Mercer Cracks Top 10
The shift of three publishers to "new e-book agreements" hasn't affected Amazon's bestselling Kindle list since the migration began--in fact, on December 12, it was a Thomas & Mercer title that made the biggest splash.
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Byliner and Ingram Partner
Byliner has selected Ingram to print and distribute editions of Byliner’s popular e-books beginning in January 2013. "Byliner’s known for digital publishing, but our core mission is to deliver memorable stories to readers, and we increasingly hear from our readers and writers that they would like our stories available in print as well as digital form,” said Byliner founder and CEO John Tayman.
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