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Haymarket Books Rises Up
Haymarket Books, the book publishing arm of Chicago’s progressive Center for Economic Research and Social Change, has enjoyed a 43% spike in sales this year, driven by a hot title and the Occupy movement.
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Will There Be A ‘Fifty Shades’ Afterglow?
Those who work in publishing—and especially those who write books—are no strangers to jealousy. Why does one title become a bestseller when another doesn’t? That sentiment has certainly bubbled up around E.L. James’s Fifty Shades trilogy. While some romance editors and authors say they don’t appreciate the mainstream media’s assertion that the erotic series is something new—the genre (as well as splintering subgenres) has been popular for well over a decade—many are acknowledging that James’s books may present an opportunity to draw more readers to romance titles, new and old.
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The Pinterest Experiment
The world of social media is an increasingly fickle place, and no social media site has gotten more recent hype or questions than Pinterest. Promising signs: it has grown from 3.3 million users in October 2011 to 19 million users in March 2012; it is now the third largest social media network behind Facebook and Twitter, passing LinkedIn (86 million visits in March) with its 104 million visits the same month; in April, Forbes estimated the company was worth $7.7 billion. But recently, the media have started to use the word “bubble,” pointing to the slowed growth in March, and figures that show active users actually dropped off in April.
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New Day at Archie Comics, Despite Internal Strife
Archie Comics Publications, the home of the iconic American red-headed teenager and his Riverdale High School buddies, is reshaping its longstanding brand and revitalizing its publishing program. In recent years Archie Comics has implemented a combination of new publishing formats and provocative new content aimed at keeping the classic Archie brand youthful and relevant to a new generation of Archie fans.
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Amazon and Texas Reach Sales Tax Agreement
Texas comptroller of public accounts Susan Combs and Amazon announced an agreement that will end the dispute over what Texas said was $269 million in uncollected sales tax.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, April 27
A major publisher moves to kill DRM (Digital Rights Management). It's more good news for e-book consumers, but in corners of the publishing industry, fears persist. Will holding on save the business? -- or sink it?
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Still Calling for Info for ‘PW Show Daily’
For PW Show Daily—a daily newspaper distributed at BookExpo America—please send information on your lead authors who will be at BEA to promote their books.
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Tracking Amazon: Stephen King's Kindle Single Leaps To #4
It's been quite a week for the King family--on April 24, the latest Dark Tower novel, The Wind Through the Keyhole was published and as of April 27 sits at #9 in hardcover and #21 for Kindle.
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Fifty Shades of Success
Fifty Shades of Grey remained the top fiction seller in the country last week, according to Nielsen BookScan, but the two sequels in the trilogy got off to a hot start of their own.
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Kundera Gets Downloadable Audio Books from HarperAudio
Fifteen titles by Milan Kundera will be released as digital download audio books throughout 2012, beginning with The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting on May 15. Richmond Hoxie will narrate the fiction titles and Graeme Malcolm will narrate the nonfiction. The titles will only be available as downloads.
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Tracking Amazon: Kindle Bestsellers are 85% Fiction
As of the morning of April 26, only 15 nonfiction titles made the Kindle top 100. Of these books, only three did not also appear on Amazon's print top 100 (Heroes and Monsters by Josh James Riebock; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer; and A Night to Remember by Walter Lord).
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Tracking Amazon: Riordan's 'Serpent's Shadow' Is Amazon's Most Popular Preorder
A number of pre-pub books are in Amazon's top 100, but none has been on the list for longer, or is ranked higher, than Rick Riordan's The Serpent's Shadow.
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AMACOM Joins Espresso Book Machine Network
AMACOM has signed an agreement with Ingram's Lightning Source, allowing over 200 of their titles to be delivered using the Espresso Book Machine.
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Canadian festival founder launches publishing company
Linda Leith, founder of Montreal’s Blue Metropolis literary festival, is launching her own publishing company.
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Used Textbook Association Dissolves
The Used Textbook Association board of directors voted to dissolve the trade association by the end of the month.
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Tracking Amazon: RH's 'Beyond Outrage' Flourishes as E-book Exclusive
The new e-book exclusive, Beyond Outrage, released as an e-book exclusive by Knopf on April 17, has spent its entire life in the Amazon Kindle top 100.
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Octavia E. Butler Comes to E via Open Road
Open Road Media will publish 10 titles from sci-fi writer Octavia E. Butler, including the Nebula Award-winning Parable of the Talents, bringing all the titles to e-books for the first time.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Think Like a Man' Book Sees Bump from Box Office
Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment (Amistad) is backordered in both paperback and hardcover, and is ranked #7 and #53 in the top 100, respectively.
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News Briefs: Week of April 23, 2012
Bookstore Sales Down 4.1% in February and more
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Deals: Week of April 23, 2012
LBF Books on the Move and more
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