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B&N Adds More U.K. Retailers
Barnes & Noble has announced partnerships with Dixons Retail, Sainsbury's, and Waitrose, expanding the reach of its Nook products in the U.K.
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Faber Announces Restructure
U.K.-based Faber and Faber has announced a series of new appointments and a change of structure to lay the foundations for growth.
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AAP 'Disappointed' By ALA Open Letter on E-Books
The Association of American Publishers has issued a response criticizing an open letter recently published by the American Library Association on the e-book issue.
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Tracking Amazon: The Next Big Self-Pub Success Story
As of September 25, On Dublin Street by Samantha Young has spent 22 days in the Kindle top 100, many of them in the #1 spot.
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Poisoned Pen Press Creates YA Imprint
Arizona-based publisher Poisoned Pen Press has created its first imprint, dedicated to young adult titles, called Poisoned Pencil.
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Labonte Leaving Douglas & McIntyre
As of December 31, 2012, Chris Labonté will leave his position as Douglas & McIntyre’s fiction acquisitions editor to pursue his own writing and other endeavors.
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces Sponsor
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), the prize for the Arabic novel, is to be sponsored by the newly created Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) from 2013, marking the Prize’s sixth cycle.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Casual Vacancy' Climbs As Pub Date Approaches
Three days before its pub date, J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy has reached #3 on Amazon's bestseller list, and is #42 on Kindle.
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Tuttle Laying Off 16; Looks to Future with S&S
As part of Tuttle’s decision to move its fulfillment to one of the big six, Simon & Schuster, the North Clarendon, Vt.-based publisher is laying off mostly warehouse staff.
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News Briefs: Week of September 24, 2012
Marks Out at Bookish and more
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The Experiment Finds the Right Formula
Since the publisher’s launch in early 2009, the Experiment’s biggest success has surprised even its staff: Forks over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health has become a smash hit, selling 127,000 copies since its publication in summer 2011 (it’s also the #47 bestselling book of the year so far on Amazon), as well as spawning a cookbook, Forks over Knives: The Cookbook, which has sold more than 32,000 copies since its August 2012 pub date at outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan.
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Call For Information
Feature: Illustrated Gift Books
Issue: Oct. 9
Deadline: September 26
Please let us know of highly illustrated gift books—on art & photography, sports, antiques, travel, fashion, furniture, science, history, nature, etc.—that are prime for the holiday gifting season. Send .pdfs or jpegs and info to mcoffey@publishersweekly.com; blads, galleys, finished copies to Michael Coffey, PW, 71 W. 23rd St., New York, N.Y. 10010.Vintage Reissuing Strayed's First Novel
Hoping to build on the success of her memoir, Wild, Vintage is reissuing a paperback edition of Cheryl Strayed's debut novel, Torch.
Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, September 21
Leaders from the book industry and the American Library Association gather next week in New York City. The Association of American Publishers has invited them to share perspectives on a growing controversy over e-book pricing. For the moment, as the diplomats might say, the dialogue is business-like. That could change, though, observes Andrew Albanese.
Google Paid $22 Million for Frommer’s; Wiley Gets New Wiley Board Member
In its recently released quarterly filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, John Wiley reported that it received “approximately $22 million in cash” from Google for its travel related properties that include Frommer’s, WhatsonWhen and Unofficial Guides.
ABFFE Postpones Online Auction
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) announced that it is postponing an online auction of original children’s art that had been scheduled to run through Banned Books Week (Sept. 30-Oct. 6).
PW Webcast on Tablet Strategy Today
PW senior editor of digital media Jonathan Segura hosts PW’s monthly webcast which will focus on how to develop tablet and mobile strategies.
Zola Books Begins Rollout of its E-tailing Site
Zola Books, the social, retail, and recommendation Web site that aims to bring everything about books to one place, launched with its social component on September 20.
'Infinite Jest' Sees Sales Bump Following DFW Biography
Since the publication on August 30 of D.T. Max's Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (Viking), sales of Wallace's most famous book, Infinite Jest, have steadily increased.
'No Easy Day' Keeps Number One Spot
In its second week, sales for No Easy Day fell 30% to 176,000 copies, according to the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan.
