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Halpern Reflects on 40 Years of Ecco
On the 40th birthday of his imprint at HarperCollins, Ecco, publisher Dan Halpern reflects on over four decades in the publishing industry, a business he says, in many ways, has not changed that much.
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Yale Provides Access to Stalin’s Papers in Digital Archive
Stalin’s personal papers, many accessible only at the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, more than 28,000 documents in all, are part of a Web-based initiative that Yale University Press is currently beta testing, the Stalin Digital Archive (www.stalindigitalarchive.com).
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Perseus Signs with Espresso
The Perseus Books Group will make “a wide array” of its titles available through the Espresso Book Machine, and its 250 distribution clients will also be able to offer titles through the machine. Perseus follows HarperCollins as the second major trade house to offer a selection of its titles through EBM.
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NBA Winners Get Audiobooks from Recorded Books
Recorded Books will publish audiobooks of the 2011 National Book Awards winners in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and young people's literature.
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Rowman & Littlefield Launches Web site Covering All Imprints
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc. (RLPG) has launched a new website to encompass all of its publishing programs: www.rowman.com.
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Hazelden Joins Harvard Medical School for 'The Almost Effect' Series
Harvard Medical School is teaming up with Hazelden Publishing to release a book series on "The Almost Effect"--a concept that reveals a paradigm shift in mental health that will help people who exhibit behavior that falls outside of normal but fails to meet the criteria for a particular diagnosis.
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Putnam Acquires Two Paretsky Novels
G.P. Putnam’s Sons acquired two new novels in award-winner Sara Paretsky’s New York Times-bestselling V.I Warshawski series.
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'Creative Nonfiction' Launches Creative Nonfiction Books
Creative Nonfiction, the magazine founded in 1993, has launched Creative Nonfiction Books.
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Parker’s Brothers & A Suitable Job for a Woman
Two mystery book experts go head-to-head on the topic of male and female writers and characters in the genre.
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Earning More Than an ‘A’: Master's Programs Fill the Needs for a More Complex Industry
The wide world of publishing is changing; everyone will tell you that. But if you ask what about publishing is changing, you’ll likely hear about the decline of physical books or the growth of digital books. And while the loss of bookstores and the latest, lightest e-reader make for compelling stories, they overshadow a less visible change currently happening at the other end of publishing: how people are getting into the industry.
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News Briefs: Week of November 21, 2011
September Store Sales Up and more.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, November 18
With Thanksgiving, and Black Friday, approaching fast, PW attended the Association for Corporate Growth's second annual retail conference this week to get a sense of what retailers can expect this holiday shopping season. Also at the conference, former Borders CEO Mike Edwards, who offered refreshingly candid assessment of the company’s fatal mistakes.
Listen to the podcast here.
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NBA Winners Going Back to Press
The four winners at Wednesday's National Book Awards are all getting rewarded by their publishers with increased print runs.
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NEA Gives $22 Million Across 863 Grants
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country, totaling $22.5 million.
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RH Debuts Enhanced E-books for Reading Groups
Random House has announced the development and launch of Random House Reader’s Circle Deluxe Reading Group Editions.
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Knopf's High-End Print Package for '1Q84' Pays Off
It's just under a thousand pages. It's a work in translation. It got a not-so-glowing review from the New York Times. Following standard publishing wisdom, Haruki Murakami's newest work, 1Q84, should not be the out-of-the-gate hit it is.
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Book Country Launches Self-Publishing Services
Book Country, a free online writing community and publishing services venture launched by Penguin in April, has now added a suite of economically priced, easy-to-use self-publishing tools for its members.
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