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Women’s Presses Tweak Their Business Models
Approximately a dozen women’s presses are actively publishing in the U.S. today, down from about 30 during the 1990s, when feminist publishing and bookselling were at their peak. There are, additionally, several women’s presses sporadically publishing, and a few others putting out regional titles with limited distribution.
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The Maturing of Milkweed
Now in its 32nd year publishing literary fiction and nonfiction for both adults and children, Milkweed Editions recently underwent a major restructuring that publisher and CEO Daniel Slager expects will further establish the Minneapolis nonprofit as a major player in a rapidly changing industry.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, April 20
O to be in England, now that April’s there. And in 2012, in London, the scene is not nearly as idyllic as in Browning’s verse: The great metropolis is in the final throes of preparation for Olympic game and royal jubilee festivals. It has not gone without notice, though, that the city was host this week to the annual London Book Fair.
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Zondervan Signs WestBow Author
WestBow Press, the Christian self-publishing division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., announced that author Annie F. Downs’ debut nonfiction work, From Head to Foot has been acquired by Zondervan.
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Distribution: Bookmasters Agrees with Pearson Mexico's Publishing
Bookmasters has entered into a sales and distribution agreement with Pearson Mexico's publishing arm to distribute their catalog of educational books for middle and high school age students in the United States and Canada.
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Amazon Publishing Acquires James Bond Backlist
Amazon and Ian Fleming Publications have agreed to a ten-year license for North American rights to the entire list of James Bond books by Ian Fleming in print and e-book.
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It's Fall Announcements Time!
The Publishers Weekly portal (powered by Edelweiss) is officially open for publisher submissions of fall titles, adult and children’s.
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Distribution: Gardners Signs Rowman & Littlefield
In a deal signed Monday at the London Book Fair, the UK wholesaler Gardners Books will handle digital distribution of the e-books of the various imprints of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Casual Vacancy' Cracks Top 10
It won't be released until September 27, but J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy has already made its way into Amazon's top 10.
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News Briefs: Week of April 16, 2012
Rowling’s New Book Revealed and more
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Rebranding at Harvard Pays Off
In July 2011, when Harvard Business School changed the name of its book publishing operation to Harvard Business Review Press to match its strongest brand, the Harvard Business Review magazine, it wasn’t clear what kind of impact it might have.
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Gooseberry Patch Freshens Up
Gooseberry Patch, originally founded in 1984 as a mail-order catalogue company selling old-fashioned, country-style products, began publishing cookbooks in 1992, but the Delaware, Ohio, company almost didn’t make it through the Great Recession. “Gooseberry Patch ran headlong into the economic downturn,” Brad Dunnington, the company’s CEO since December 2009, told PW. “That, in combination with the banking crisis, was a perfect storm.” Sales that had reached a high of $18 million–$20 million plummeted, making the future of the company founded by two stay-at-home mothers uncertain. In an effort to revive Gooseberry, in 2009 cofounders Vickie Hutchins and Jo Ann Martin entered into a partnership with Lazear Capital Partners, an Ohio merchant banking firm specializing in turning around ailing companies.
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Weighing the Consequences
The government views its settlement with, and continuing litigation against, publishers and Apple over e-book pricing as a great victory for consumers. The overwhelming reaction in the book industry, however, is one of bewilderment, with many members believing that the government has no sense of how the book business really works or what the impact its actions will have long term.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, April 13
It was a momentous week, as the the US Dept. of Justice (DOJ) moved to sue Apple and five trade book houses for price-fixing on e-books, settling the charges with three publishers.
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Amazon Publishing Releases Fall List
Amazon Publishing New York has announced its first list of books under the New Harvest imprint in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt catalog.
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Little, Brown Releases Title, Pub Date of Rowling's Adult Novel
Little, Brown has announced that J.K. Rowling's forthcoming adult novel, which it recently acquired, will be called The Casual Vacancy. The Hachette imprint also said the book will be published, internationally in English, on September 27.
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The Broad Strokes of the Hachette, HarperCollins and S&S Price-Fixing Settlement
Three publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have reached a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle federal claims of price fixing regarding e-books. PW takes an initial look at the broad strokes of the deal, and what it means for the settling publishers.
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DoJ Files Antitrust Suit
The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group, HarperCollins, and Macmillan charging them with colluding to raise e-book prices when they moved from the wholesale model to the agency model.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Reverse Innovation' Jumps in P, Flat in E
Amazon's top book in Movers & Shakers is Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble (Harvard Business Review Press), seeing a jump to #7 from #7,119 in the past 24 hours.
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Scribner To Publish 'Call of Sedona' in July
Scribner will publish the independently-published New York Times bestseller The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart by Ilchi Lee.
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