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Call for Information: Personal Finance Feature
Needed: Information from publishers with personal finance books coming this winter and spring.
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Let’s Get Political
With the presidential election just decided, it’s a hot time to be submitting, or buying, political books.
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News Briefs: Week of November 19, 2012
September Bookstore Sales Fell 8% and more
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Distribution: O'Reilly and Wiley Agree
O'Reilly has signed a deal with John Wiley & Sons to become an online distributor for their technology e-books. O'Reilly's Website offers over 3,000 Wiley tech titles, all of which are DRM-free and available in multiple formats. The agreement includes nine Wiley imprints, including the Wrox, Sybex, and For Dummies brands.
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New E-book Series Penguin Tracks Launches with Ferguson
Penguin will begin its new Penguin Tracks e-book series with Niall Ferguson's The Abyss, the first section of his book The War of the World, selling for $3.99. Penguin Tracks is designed to return backlist titles by well-known authors and award-winning works to an entirely new audience.
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No Sales Boom for Broadwell's Petraeus Book
According to Nielsen BookScan, Paula Broadwell's All In sold 74 copies for the week ending November 11.
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Abrams Reorganizes Adult Management Group
Abrams has reorganized its adult group management team in a move aimed at more aggressively exploiting the illustrated book publisher’s assets in the digital marketplace and expanding internationally.
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S&S Pushing Up Petraeus Book
Simon & Schuster is bumping up, and spicing up, its forthcoming David Petraeus book. Fred Kaplan's The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War is now set for January 2, with a new postscript about the former CIA chief's recent resignation.
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Amazon Best Books 2012 Revealed
Amazon has released its list of the top 100 books of 2012, as well as top 10 lists in over two dozen categories, from children's books to celebrity picks. The top 10 includes Louise Erdrich, Kevin Powers, and Gillian Flynn.
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Scholastic to Donate 1 Million Books to Sandy Relief
Scholastic has announced that it will donate 1 million books to schools and libraries hard hit by superstorm Sandy. The company will also make available free to teachers online lesson plans and activities.
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S&S Gives Hurricane Relief
Simon & Schuster has offered 500 "best of" titles to any public or school library damaged by Hurricane Sandy in order to help in the restoration of their collections.
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Melville House Goes Subscription for Backlist Series
The independent publisher Melville House is hoping to entice readers to its classics series, The Art of the Novella, through a subscription offer that gives readers both print and digital copies.
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PW Panel on Cookbook Set for Nov. 16
Join PW for Breakfast with our Discussion Series on Nov 16th: "The Digital Kitchen: Adapting Cookbooks in the App Age."
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YUP Creates POD Program for Out-of-Print Titles
Yale University Press has launched a print on demand program for its art and architecture titles, featuring 140 out of print books originally published by the Metropolitan Museum.
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Distribution: Viz Renews with S&S
Viz Media has renewed its distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster under which S&S will continue to manage distribution for all of Viz Media’s imprints.
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Petraeus Biographer Had Unique Access
CIA director David Petraeus resigned Friday after admitting he had an affair with his biographer.
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News Briefs: Week of November 12, 2012
S&S Quarter Down 5% and more
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday November 9, 2012
A look at how authors and publishers are turning to platforms like Smashwords that publish and sell e-books, and taking advantage of digitally-devoted distribution services. Listen here.
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Rowman & Littlefield, Medical Library Association Strike Publishing Agreement
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group (RLPG) and the Medical Library Association (MLA) this week announced a new co-publishing partnership that will yield “new book projects” and “explore opportunities in innovative publishing formats and reaching wider audiences.”
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Amazon Says Glitch Caused Loss of Buy Buttons
Amazon issued a statement this morning saying the loss of buy buttons for e-books from a number of major houses was the result of a "technical issue" and that all buttons have been restored.
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