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Crime Fiction Academy Launched; Lehane, Slaughter and More on Faculty
The Center for Fiction, founded in 1820 as the Mercantile Library, has announced the February 2012 debut of The Crime Fiction Academy an ongoing program that will be exclusively dedicated to crime writing in all its forms.
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Distribution: Nolo Joins Ingram
Ingram Publisher Services Inc. and Nolo announced that Nolo has selected Ingram Publisher Services to handle its sales, marketing and distribution.
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PW Select Fall 2011: Mercer Re-ups with FastPencil
Late last month, the self-publishing company FastPencil re-signed bestselling children's author Mercer Mayer to another multibook deal. Mayer shared his experiences working with FastPencil with PW, and why he decided to do more books with the company.
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News Briefs: Week of October 17, 2011
Amazon Launches Sci Fi/Fantasy Imprint 47North and more.
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A Look at The West, Via Sweden
The Layton, Utah publisher Gibbs Smith has a well-deserved reputation for publishing books that celebrate the American West, and company founder Gibbs Smith is high on a fall book that takes a different look at the region and its culture. West, set for release November 1, is by the Swedish team of journalist Lars Aberg and photographer Lars Strandberg. “I could see from the first that it was an interesting, European look at the American West,” said Smith, who acquired the book after the Western Folklife Organization brought Aberg and Strandberg to his attention.
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A Pattern of Success at C&T Publishing
The launch of C&T Publishing’s Stash Books imprint in early spring 2010 was a key factor in driving up sales last year at the Concord, Calif., craft and quilting book publisher, and the new imprint, aimed at a younger audience than C&T’s usual customers, continues to do well in 2011. C&T has gone back to press on 10 of Stash’s books so far this year (with Fresh Fabric Treats and The Practical Guide to Patchwork the top-sellers), and sales to the book trade are up 16% this year after a 47% increase in 2010 led by the new imprint.
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Podcast: PW’s Week Ahead for Friday, October 14
Reporting direct from the Frankfurt Book Fair, Andrew Albanese updates us on the books and the deals at the world's biggest book and media fair. From PW's offices in New York City, reviews editor and blogger Rose Fox tells CCC's Chris Kenneally about the new "PW Select" issue, which highlights self-published books submitted through the PW Select program.
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B&N, Simon & Schuster, and Cartoon Network Team Up to Fight Bullying
Cartoon Network, and Barnes & Noble and Simon & Schuster have announced a collaboration to promote bullying prevention during October’s National Bullying Prevention Month.
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Hachette Book Group Cuts 11
The Hachette Book Group has confirmed that it has eliminated 11 sales positions.
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Penguin Canada Releases Novel in Spite of Plagiarism Questions
Penguin Canada is releasing Ling Zhang’s novel Gold Mountain Blues in spite of lingering allegations of plagiarism.
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Macmillan Bello Launched
Macmillan Bello, the new name of the digital imprint between Pan Macmillan and Curtis Brown, will publish 120 e-books between November and the end of the year with titles coming from the agency.
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O'Reilly Partners with On Demand Books
O'Reilly Media and On Demand Books, the company behind the Espresso Book Machine (EBM), have entered into an agreement to enable a substantial portion of O'Reilly's paperback titles to be available from EBM's "digital-to-print at retail" sales channel. The files will be made available through a connection between O'Reilly Media, Ingram Content Group, and On Demand Books.
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OverDrive Unveils WIN Catalogue at Frankfurt
OverDrive is introducing a new program that will let consumers buy e-books and audiobooks from its library catalogues.
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Kobo Partners with French Retailer FNAC
Kobo has announced a new partnership with French book retailer FNAC.
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Amazon Launches Sci Fi/Fantasy Imprint 47North; Acquires Marshall Memoir
Amazon has added another genre to its publishing stable, with the launch of 47North, a science fiction/fantasy/horror imprint that will publish original and previously published works from new and established authors as well as out-of-print books.
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William Morrow Gives Lehane His Own Imprint
Dennis Lehane will oversee an eponymous line of books at HarperCollins that will publish a select number of fiction titles a year.
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Bedford Square Books Launches with Six Titles
Ed Victor confirmed that the company will publish its first original work, a novel by entrepreneur Louise Fennell, wife of jewellery designer, Theo, titled Dead Rich.
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Imagine Fitting in with Charlesbridge
One year after Charlesbridge acquired Imagine Publishing, founded in 2009 by former Sterling CEO Charles Nurnberg and his son Jeremy, Charlesbridge publisher Brent Farmer credits the purchase with growing the house’s sales “substantially.”
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History Press Marches On
In a time of change in the book industry, the History Press, an independent publisher in Charleston, S.C., is doing a brisk business in titles designed specifically for local markets. From 20 books in its inaugural year of 2004, History Press is on track to release 325 books in 2011. The company currently boasts 17 different series, including Hidden History, True Crime, American Legends, Food & Drink, plus a Civil War Sesquicentennial series, started in 2009. And its reach, in terms of regions covered, is expanding westward; this month and next, History Press releases its first two Oregon titles, Hidden History of Civil War Oregon (yes, the Civil War did reach Oregon) by Randol B. Fletcher and Stories from Jewish Portland (yes, there is a Jewish Portland) by Polina Olsen.
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New Directions For National Geographic Books
The appointment late last month of Hector Sierra as general manager and senior v-p for National Geographic Society’s books division completes the new management team that will now drive the book operation for one of America’s best-known brands. The change in the division began last October when Declan Moore, who began at NGS in 1995, was appointed executive v-p for the society and president of publishing. Shortly after his appointment, Moore asked Melina Bellows, chief creative officer of Kids and Families for NGS, who worked on children’s books, to oversee editorial for adult books as well.
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