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Tracking Amazon: Kennedy Confidant is Amazon's Only Bestselling Preorder
There is only one pre-order book in Amazon's top 100 bestseller: Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss by RoseMarie Terenzio, which was at #68 as of the afternoon of January 19.
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PW Review: 'Enemies: A History of the FBI' by Tim Weiner
Drawing on newly released documents, Tim Weiner follows the Bureau’s century-long war against foreign spies, terrorists domestic and foreign, and alleged domestic “subversives” from communists to civil rights activists.
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Grand Central to Launch Digital Romance Imprint
Grand Central Publishing is launching a romance digital imprint next month. Forever Yours will publish new works as well as backlist titles from its nine-year-old Forever imprint.
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ECW Press Experiments with Free E-books for Print Customers
ECW Press experiments with giving away e-books with print book sales.
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Tracking Amazon: Mark R. Levin Hits Number One
Conservative nationally syndicated radio-talk-show host and president of the Landmark Legal Foundation Mark R. Levin had the number one book on Amazon's bestseller list, as of the afternoon of January 18.
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Cemetery Dance Launches 'All You Can Read' E-book Promotion
Cemetery Dance Publications has launched its 2012 e-book membership with an "all you can read" plan, allowing subscribers to reader all Cemetery Dance e-book titles.
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Disney Publishing Crosses Seven Million Apps Downloaded
Disney Publishing Worldwide has passed seven million App Store downloads, and currently has six apps on the charts in the books, entertainment, and education categories.
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Distribution: Bookmasters Signs Nowtilus for U.S. & Canada
Bookmasters has entered into an agreement with Spanish publisher Nowtilus Publishing to distribute their titles in the U.S. and Canada.
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Tracking Amazon: 'The End of Illness' Gets Unprecedented Coverage, Sales Spike
The End of Illness by David B. Agus is #4 in hardcover and #33 in the paid Kindle Store on Amazon, likely due to the extensive coverage from media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and a segment on ABC'sWorld News with Diane Sawyer.
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Two New Gertrude Stein Editions Get Yale’s Royal Treatment
The new editions of two Getrude Stein works reveal the fraught and jealous relationship Stein had with her lover and editor Alice B. Toklas.
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News Briefs: Week of January 16, 2012
Nov. Bookstore Sales Drop 8.6% and more.
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Debts Cleared, MacAdam/Cage Returns
After nearly four years of disruptive financial problems, San Francisco independent publishing house MacAdam/Cage has paid off the bulk of its debt and looks ready to resume normal publishing operations. The house has hired Sonny Brewer as its new editor-in-chief and will launch its first list in two seasons in March.
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Berrett-Koehler Posts Another Profitable Year
Twenty years after he founded the indie San Francisco press Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Steve Piersanti continues to stay focused on the company’s original mission of stewardship and socially responsible publishing practices. That commitment has led B-K to be profitable for nine years in a row, and profits in 2011 will top the $424,868 generated in 2010 on sales of about $7.5 million.
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Buzz Bringing Sales to Coffee House
The editorial directorship at Coffee House Press may have changed hands only six months ago, passing from its founding publisher, Allan Kornblum, to longtime editor Chris Fischbach in July, but the 27-year-old Minneapolis literary nonprofit press certainly hasn’t lost any momentum during the transition. Two of the press’s fall 2011 releases, Leaving the Atocha Station, a debut novel by Ben Lerner, and Sông I Sing, a debut collection of poems by Bao Phi, have been published to critical acclaim in major media publications.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, January 13
This week, an intense discussion kicked up over a bill called the Research Works Act, which was introduced on December 16, PW’s Andrew Albanese tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Fault in Our Stars' Buoyed By Free Preview
In an exclusive, Amazon is featuring the entire first two chapters of John Green's just-released The Fault in Our Stars on the book's product page. The book is currently #11 on Amazon's bestseller list.
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East View Readies Map Link Web Site & Bookseller Program
Just over a year after East View Cartographic in Minneapolis purchased the Map Link name and launched a separate wholesale map operation, East View Map Link, it is focusing on the e-commerce piece of the Map Link business.
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BISG Explains Digital Books Policy Statement in Webcast
BISG held a webcast January 11 on “Understanding BISG’s Policy for Identifying Digital Products,” designed to help clarify the BISG Policy Statement published December 7, 2011 on best practices.
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Canadian Publishers Dismayed by M&S’s Loss of Independence
Some Canadian publishers see the acquisition of McClelland & Stewart by Random House of Canada as further erosion of the government’s commitment to keep cultural industries Canadian owned.
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