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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, July 20
Just in time for Olympic gymnastics, the BookStats industry tally of 2011 book sales shows a business in the middle of a back-flip. And in reviews, we learn about another difficult trick – how to turn Bluebeard, the notorious wife-murderer, into a romantic hero. Listen here.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Today' Show Catapults 'To Heaven and Back'
On July 19, Mary C. Neal appeared on the Today show for her book To Heaven and Back. Less than 24 hours later, the book is #5 on Amazon's bestseller chart, up from #225. For Kindle, the e-book has jumped to #12 from #347.
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Pearson Acquires Self-Publishing Vendor Author Solutions For $116 Million
Pearson has acquired Author Solutions Inc., one of the largest self-publishing ventures in the world, for $116 million from Bertram Capital.
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'Bared to You' Picks Up Steam
It’s not flying out of the stores the way Fifty Shades of Grey has, but Bared to You, the self-published title by Sylvia Day acquired by Berkley this spring, has crossed the 100,000-copies sold level at outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan.
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Exclusive Video Preview: Oprah's Interview With Cheryl Strayed
We have an exclusive preview of Oprah's interview with Cheryl Strayed, author of "Wild," the latest Oprah Book Club Selection -- and the first selection in Oprah's Book Club 2.0.
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Smashwords Author Boosted by iBookstore
R.L. Mathewson, a romance writer published by Smashwords, saw sales of her e-books rise after being promoted with a banner and a "brick" ad on iBookstore's "Romance" and "Featured" pages.
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Peeters Leaves Perseus, McCarthy and Anastas Promoted
After eight years with Perseus Books Group, Clare Peeters, v-p, corporate strategy & business development is leaving to become v-p and managing director at private investment firm Axel Johnson.
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Pubslush Revamps its Book Crowdfunding Model
After revamping its business model, Pubslush, a crowdfunding venture designed for the book market, is relaunching itself as an alternative to sites like Kickstarter that attract a wide range of fundraising projects.
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Zondervan Realigns, Lays off Eight
On June 26, Zondervan laid off eight staffers, in what the company called a “realignment.” According to Zondervan, the eight positions that were eliminated were “primarily support functions.”
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New University of Missouri Press Director Defends Makeover
Speer Morgan, the new director of the University of Missouri Press, insists that the university's recent actions are part of a strategy to make the press more relevant.
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Tracking Amazon: BDSM E-books Take Over Kindle Chart
The 50 Shades trilogy is entrenched in the top three spots on Amazon's Kindle chart, but a number of e-books with BDSM elements have also crept into the top 100.
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Quarto Shareholder Group Wants to Replace Orbach
Over the weekend, shareholders that own 19% of the stock of Quarto, the London-based publisher, requested that a special meeting be held to replace its chief executive and co-founder, Laurence Orbach with Tim Chadwick. The Quarto board will recommend that the proposal be defeated.
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SiriusXM Launches 'Book Radio After Dark'
On July 15, SiriusXM launched "Book Radio After Dark" with Susie Bright.
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University of Missouri Press Reinvented
The University of Missouri announced Monday the reorganization of the University of Missouri Press, which, as of July 1, lost its funding.
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Tracking Amazon: Crime Novel Jumps Thanks to NPR
After appearing on NPR yesterday, Bruce DeSilva's debut novel (which won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best First Novel) Rogue Island jumped from #29,712 to #390. The book was first published by Forge in 2010.
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Princeton University Press Does Inaugural E-Original
On August 8, Princeton University Press will release its first e-book original, Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal by Brink Lindsey. The e-book will be priced at $4.99 for all major e-tailers. An expanded hardcover edition will be published in spring 2013.
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Working Partners Acquired by Coolabi
The Working Partners group – including Beast Quest Ltd and The Greenhouse Literary Agency – has been acquired by Jeremy Banks and Tim Ricketts, the management team who built Coolabi Ltd, with the support of Edge Performance VCT.
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Tracking Amazon: Riordan, Silva Lead Bestselling Preorders
There were seven preorder books on Amazon's top 100 as of the morning of July 16, a higher number than normal for the bestselling chart. The top preorder is also the preorder with one of the latest publication dates: Rick Riordan's The Mark of Athena .
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Kensington Does Digital Only with eKensington
Earlier this month, Kensington's new digital only imprint eKensington launched with its first two titles, Rebecca Zanetti's Consumed and Lindsey Brookes's Jimmie Joe Johnson: Manwhore--the beginning of the imprint's mission to publish both new works and classic titles from Kensington's extensive backlist.
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News Briefs: Week of July 16, 2012
HC Completes Nelson Deal and more
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