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Call for Information: Election Campaign Books
For a PW feature in the Jan. 16, 2012 issue centering on new books or pertinent reissues tied to the 2012 presidential election, publishers are encouraged to send publication details to Gwenda Bond, Gwenda007@gmail.com. The deadline for information and materials is Dec. 23.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, December 16
Listen to the podcast here.
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Penguin Postpones Release of Two Mortenson YA Editions
Penguin’s Dial Books for Young Readers imprint is not publishing two Greg Mortenson titles it had on its schedule, at least for now.
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Samhain Rekindles Retro Romance
Samhain Publishing has announced the launch of Retro Romance, a Samhain line dedicated to bringing out-of-print romance novels from the seventies, eighties, nineties and early 2000s to an entirely new readership.
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Reader's Digest Cuts 150 Positions
Reader’s Digest has completed another restructuring, eliminating 150 positions across its worldwide operations. The cuts were in all business groups, including books.
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Author Jill Marshall Launches New Zealand Publishing House
Originally organized by author Jill Marshall to publish a benefit book in the wake of the Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake earlier this year, Pear Jam Books has now been launched as a full-service publishing house.
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Penguin Releases Holiday eSampler
Penguin Group announced the release of its Holiday eSampler featuring excerpts from over 40 frontlist, backlist, and upcoming titles. Available for free wherever e-books are sold, the collection allows readers to browse sample chapters.
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PUBSLUSH Waiting On 2,000
At start-up PUBSLUSH Press, the magic number is 2,000. That's because if an author submits a book and 2,000 users "support" it, that book will be published.
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Council Oak Gets Makeover
James Connolly has worn a number of different hats in his publishing career, most recently as publisher of the books division of University Games of San Francisco, which followed his time as CEO and publisher of Bay/Soma Books, but it didn’t take long for him to make the move to Council Oak Books after talking earlier this fall with the inventor and entrepreneur Maurice Kanbar, who has been Council Oak’s sole owner for about a decade.
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Sleeper Hits from Big Houses
There may be no greater indication of how things have changed in corporate publishing than the results of an informal PW search for sleeper hits of the year from major publishers. We annually round up sleepers from indie publishers for a late summer feature, but we have not made a regular habit of asking the bigger houses for their under-the-radar surprises.
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Globe Pequot Press Goes Back to Its Roots
In August 2009, Jim Joseph was named president and COO of Globe Pequot Press. At the time the Guilford, Conn., press was going through something of an identity crisis. In the three years before Joseph’s appointment, Globe Pequot had been trying to remake itself along the lines of a New York City trade publishing house.
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News Briefs: Week of December 12, 2011
MHE Axes 550 and more.
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Merger Forms New Dutch House, Atlas-Contact
Contact Publishers and Atlas, Augustus, Mouria, and L.J. Veen are joining into one publishing house, called Atlas-Contact, beginning January 2012.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, December 9
Earlier this week, PW's Andrew Albanese notes, the university libraries that form the digitization initiative known as HathiTrust filed their answer to the Authors Guild suit against them.
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Distribution: Publishers Group West Adds Five New Clients
Publishers Group West has announced five new distribution clients for the spring 2012 season: Watershed Media, Tara Books, Readers to Eaters, Paper Punk, and Night Shade Books.
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Distribution: IPG Adds 14 New Publishers
Independent Publishers Group has entered into agreements with 14 new publishers for both print and electronic distribution.
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McGraw-Hill Education Slashes 550 Jobs
As its moves forward in spinning off McGraw-Hill Education into a separate company, the McGraw-Hill Cos. announced late Wednesday plans to cut 10% of MHE’s workforce—about 550 positions—and reduce its executive ranks by 20%. The downsizing is expected to be largely completed by the end of the year.
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Grand Central and Little, Brown U.K. Partner for Thrillers in Translation
Grand Central Publishing has announced a partnership with Little, Brown Book Group U.K. The two publishers jointly acquiring and publishing up to six titles per year, focusing on crime/suspense/thrillers in translation.
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Amazon Kindle Fire Ignites Publishing App Expo Discussion
The first day of the Publishing App Expo, hosted by Mediabistro, Galleycat, and eBookNewser, brought together digitally-minded publishers from all over and inspired a lively discussion at the New Yorker Hotel.
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