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Random House Launches Author Portal
Random House Author Portal launched March 12, an online resource that provides RH authors and illustrators with access to comprehensive sales, royalties, and subsidiary rights information.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Fifty Shades' Gets Seven Figures, Keeps Selling
Late last week, the New York Times reported Vintage Books paid seven figures for the rights to republish E L James's Fifty Shades trilogy, and all three titles are on the Amazon top 100 lists, for both print and Kindle.
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News Briefs: Week of March 12, 2012
Justice Department May Sue Apple, Five Major Houses, and more.
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Tech Focus Fuels Recorded Books Expansion
There are lots of words to describe sales conferences—“exciting” usually isn’t one of them. But that is exactly how CEO Rich Freese described Recorded Books recent sales conference, concluded last week in Scottsdale, Ariz., and this time the word might just fit. As the Public Library Association meeting kicks off this week in Philadelphia, Recorded Books hits the show floor having made significant progress toward an ambitious goal: with its OneClick Digital platform, rolled out late in 2011, the company has expanded from a large, well-regarded audiobook publisher to a “one-stop shopping” experience for audiobooks in the library market, as well as a digital aggregator and resource provider.
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Call for Information: April Features
Here is our monthly look ahead to what we have slated for features, this time for our April issues.
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Tracking Amazon: Kindle Prices Crush Print Prices
The average Kindle bestseller is considerably cheaper than the average print bestseller. The average price of the Kindle top five is $9.47 and the average print top five price is $14.25.
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McEvoy Group Acquires GMG Publishing Corp.
The McEvoy Group, whose book properties include Chronicle Books, Princeton Architectural Press, and becker&mayer!, has announced its acquisition of GMG Publishing Corp.
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Privacy Rights Orgs Get Behind Smashwords
A number of privacy rights organizations have signed a letter supporting Smashwords, as the company continues its talks with PayPal over possible censorship.
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Taeckens Moving to Graywolf Press
Michael Taeckens, Algonquin Books' online and paperback marketing director, is leaving the Chapel Hill, N.C., press to assume the responsibilities of marketing director at Graywolf Press, in Minneapolis.
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Audible Launches New Series With Famous Voices
The first set of Audible's "A-List Collection" of audiobooks includes Anne Hathaway reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Kate Winslet reading Therese Raquin by Emile Zola.
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Wiley to Sell Frommers and CliffsNotes
John Wiley & Sons is exploring the sale of a number of its consumer print and digital publishing assets, claiming the brands no longer align with the company's long-term strategies.
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OverDrive Begins World Headquarters Construction in Ohio
OverDrive has announced that it has begun construction of its world headquarters in Garfield Heights, Ohio, in the Greater Cleveland area. As a result of domestic and international growth in the e-book industry, OverDrive is developing a 95,000-square-foot facility on a 12-acre tech campus to accommodate more than 300 employees.
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Censorship Battle Catches Smashwords in the Middle
Smashwords is currently embroiled in a censorship battle with PayPal, and is working in with the payment processor to reach a solution.
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News Briefs: Week of March, 5 2012
EDC Drops Books on Amazon and more.
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Fast-Growing Independent Presses, 2012
In the early days of the digital revolution, most independent publishers were moving slower than the larger houses in getting on the e-book bandwagon. That period has clearly passed. With only a couple of exceptions, the publishers that made it onto this year’s edition of PW’s fast-growing small press list cited the increase in e-book sales as key to their success in 2011.
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BlogWorld Purchases TBEX
BlogWorld & New Media Expo has announced the acquisition of TBEX (Travel Blog Exchange), the world's largest travel blogging conference.
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Tracking Amazon: The Huge Success of the Bailey Flanigan Series
As the release of the fourth book in Karen Kingsbury's Bailey Flanigan series, Loving (March 27), approaches, the three previous books in the series are seeing big sales on the Kindle charts.
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Grant to Head Severn House
Kate Lyall Grant, who spent the last eight years at Simon & Schuster, has been named publisher of Severn House.
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