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Tracking Amazon: Amazon's Most Popular Topic is Food
There are a number of current event/nonfiction titles on Amazon's top 100 list, but the single most popular topic is food.
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Espresso Book Machine Agrees with Red Wheel/Weiser
Red Wheel/Weiser, the metaphysical and self-help book publisher, has joined On Demand Books’ growing Espresso Book Machine program (EBM), via arrangement with Lightning Source.
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Hay House Launches Blogger Site
Spiritual and self-help publisher Hay House has started a community-driven site for bloggers called BookNook.
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CreateSpace Offers Worldwide Distribution
Amazon’s self-publishing subsidiary CreateSpace announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use its publishing platform to distribute their books in Europe for free on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es and Amazon.it.
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Tracking Amazon: Big Names Dominate Kindle Singles
The names at the top of Amazon's Kindle Singles page are familiar to anyone who's looked at any bestseller list in the last few years, showing that well-known names like Baldacci and DeMille are publishing on the digital short platform, too, and that they may even have an advantage.
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‘Fifty Shades’ a Mother’s Day Hit
The week leading to Mother’s Day was a good one for print books in general and adult fiction in particular. Unit sales of fiction titles at the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan rose 20% in the week driven by sales of that new favorite Mother’s Day gift—one of the titles from E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy.
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Tracking Amazon: 'The Charge' Skyrockets to #2
On the morning of May 16, Brendon Burchard's The Charge: Activating the 10 Drives That Make You Feel Alive was ahead of every single book except for Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Sister Spit Books Becomes New Imprint of City Lights Publishers
San Francisco author and literary activist Michelle Tea has teamed up with City Lights Publishing to launch the Sister Spit imprint in September with Tea's Sister Spit: Writings, Rants, and Reminiscence.
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Banned 'Looking for Alaska' Gets Defense from Anti-Censorship Groups
John Green’s young adult novel Looking for Alaska once more became the target of censorship when it was recently banned from classrooms in Sumner County, Tenn.
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Distribution: INscribe Signs Eight New Deals
INscribe has announed a new slate of distribution deals with Harvest House Publishers, Wayne State University Presss, M-Y Books, Folio Literary Management, The Laura Dail Literary Agency, Mercury Ink, Publishing Consultants, and Oberon Books.
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Crown Hires Full-Time Brand Strategist
Kimberly Snead has been hired to fill the newly created role of director of brand strategy at Random House's Crown Publishing Group.
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Weinstein Books Rises, Again, With New Team
It might not have had as many lives as your average cat, but Weinstein Books has gone through more than a few reincarnations. The new team at Weinstein, which has Georgina Levitt as publishing director and Amanda Murray as editorial director, was announced in February, and the pair will release their first title, Bully (which is based on the Weinstein-produced documentary of the same name), in September.
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News Briefs: Week of May 14, 2012
HMH Redoing Debt and more
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Eamon Dolan Returns to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Eamon Dolan returned to HMH in May 2011 after moving to the Penguin Press in 2007. Since his return Dolan has immersed himself in preparing for the launch of his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, May 11
Authors’ representatives – otherwise known as literary agents – have done some writing on their own this week.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Fifty Shades' Passes 'Hunger Games'
It took just over five months for it to happen, but Fifty Shades of Grey has passed The Hunger Games as Amazon's #1 bestselling book of 2012.
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Tracking Amazon: An Out-of-Nowhere Success in 'Loyalty Leap'
In the past 24 hours, The Loyalty Leap: Turning Customer Information into Customer Intimacy (Portfolio) by Bryan Pearson has gone from #810,597 to #4 on the Amazon bestseller list, placing it behind only the Fifty Shades trilogy. Pearson is the president and CEO of LoyaltyOne Inc., a global provider of loyalty strategies.
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Story Beam, The Moving Picture Book
In white polycarbonate casing with aluminum fixings and measuring 91.5x95x95 millimeters, Story Beam is a portable mini beam projector that functions as a bedtime storyteller.
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AAR Urges Members to Write to DoJ Opposing Antitrust Settlement
After Writers House agent Simon Lipskar got some traction from an open letter he wrote to the DoJ listing the ways in which the department's suit against publishers was misguided and ill-informed, the AAR is making public an official protest letter of its own.
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Mitchard to Launch YA Imprint for F+W
F+W Media has tapped bestselling novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard to head a new young adult imprint for the publisher called Merit Press Books.
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