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Open Road and HowStuffWorks.com Partner for E-book Line
Open Road has partnered with HowStuffWorks to create a line of e-books drawn from the Web site's most popular content.
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Obituary: Christopher Davis
Christopher Davis, one of the founders of Dorling Kindersley, has died at the age of 71.
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HMH Appoints Short and Bronfin to Senior Leadership Team
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has appointed Mark Short as senior v-p and head of international markets and Wendy Bronfin as senior v-p, consumer products and marketing. Short comes from Pearson Education and Bronfin comes from Barnes & Noble.
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News Briefs: Week of December 3, 2012
McGraw-Hill Education Acquired and more
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Little, Brown Gives New Look to Waugh
On December 11, Little, Brown will reissue the 15 fiction works of Evelyn Waugh, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. The new editions will feature new covers for both paperback and hardcover formats and will tie in with the e-book editions of Waugh’s titles, available for the first time, for $9.99 for all digital formats. Among the 15 are the three novels selected for the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list: A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday November 30, 2012
Libraries are set to confront the e-book mess. Listen here.
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Kindle Direct Publishing Adds Holiday Bonus for Authors
Amazon announced that a bonus of $1.5 million has been added to the KDP Select global fund for the holiday season, on top of the regular monthly fund during the December-February period. December’s regular monthly fund is $700,000, plus $700,000 of the $1.5 million holiday bonus will be paid out for December, doubling the total amount available to authors in December to $1.4 million.
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Brian Kenney Joins 'PW' as Contributing Editor
Deepening its commitment to library issues, Publishers Weekly is pleased to announce the addition of Brian Kenney, formerly editorial director of Library Journal, SLJ, and The Horn Book, as a contributing editor and blogger. In his new role, Kenney will write a monthly column dedicated to exploring the dynamic relationship between publishers and libraries, will contribute blog posts and commentary, and will report from library conferences.
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Amazon Publishing to Expand in Europe, Kirshbaum Takes Larger U.S. Role
A letter from Jeff Belle announced that Vicky Griffith will relocate to Amazon Publishing's EU headquarters in Luxembourg and Larry Kirshbaum will assume editorial leadership for the Seattle and New York groups.
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E-Reads Cuts Print Prices
Independent e-book and POD publisher E-Reads has cut print prices by as much as 25% across the board in a bid to narrow the gap between print and e-book prices.
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Cyber Monday Serves Up Book Deals
Cyber Monday is extending to books, with sales at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Kobo, Apple, and others competing for holiday dollars.
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News Briefs: Week of November 26, 2012
Comps Down at BAM, Sales Up and more
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Graywolf Press in ‘New Era’
Looking to leverage recent critical and financial successes, the literary publisher Graywolf Press is embarking on several new initiatives to further boost its visibility and to reflect that it is, in new marketing director Michael Taeckens’s words, “entering a new era.”
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Tolkien Estate Files Copyright Infringement Suit Against Warner Bros. and Partners
The J.R.R. Tolkien estate and Tolkien’s master publisher HarperCollins have filed an $80 million lawsuit in the U.S. Central District Court of California against Warner Bros., its subsidiary New Line, and Middle-earth Enterprises over copyright infringement and breach of contract. The suit focuses on digital licensing rights, specifically related to online slot machines.
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D&M Publishers' Bankruptcy Protection Extended
Canadian indie publisher D&M granted 45-day extension of bankruptcy protection.
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Lamb, Egan to Oversee Rodale Books During Hunt for New Publisher
With the acting publisher of Rodale Books, Steve Perrine, leaving the company to start a new venture with David Zinczenko (who was editor-in-chief of Rodale-owned magazine Men's Health), as the New york Post reported, the books division is in need of new leadership.
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DIY Publishing Pioneer Milt Adams Dies
Milt Adams, a pioneer in DIY publishing and the founding publisher of Beavers Pond Press died Sunday in the Twin Cities.
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Tracking Amazon: NBA Winners Rise
The week after the 2012 National Book Awards, the fiction and nonfiction categories saw the biggest increases on Amazon.
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How is Digital Changing Cookbooks?
The different purposes of digital vs. print kept coming up during a panel on adapting cookbooks for the digital age, held as part of PW's Discussion Series.
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