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New Sports Champs Have New Books Out
The obligatory sports books celebrating the victors of the NBA and NHL championships are in the works with Triumph Books and KCI Sports doing titles on the Mavericks' and Bruins' wins, respectively.
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Thomas Nelson to Open Thomas Nelson Mexico
Thomas Nelson will open Thomas Nelson Mexico, a wholly owned division based in Mexico City, on August 1, giving the company the opportunity to market, distribute and sell its titles locally.
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Ingram Opens Lightning Source Plant in Australia
Ingram Content Group officially opened its Lightning Source Australia facility in Melbourne Thursday, its fifth globally networked print-on-demand plant. The opening of Ingram’s Australia location broadens the reach of the publishers that work with Lightning Source to a network of bookstores, libraries, and online retailers around the world.
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HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand and Weta Workshop Sign Multi-Platform Agreement
HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand has entered into an agreement with Weta Workshop, the conceptual design and manufacturing firm responsible for effects and design on films like Avatar, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Distribution: IPM Adds Two
International Publishers Marketing (IPM) has announced two new client publishers from South Africa. It will distribute titles from New Africa Books starting fall 2011 and Briza beginning in winter 2011-2012. Both are first time entrants into the U.S. & Canadian markets but each has licensed books with North American publishers.
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Amazon Publishing Announces Summer List
Amazon Publishing has unveiled its summer and early fall list of 32 titles. The books, which fall under the banner of the e-tailer's various imprints including its translation unit AmazonCrossing and its recently announced mystery unit Thomas & Mercer, will be available in the Kindle store as well as in print on Amazon and in bookstores.
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Siglio Press: Merging Literature and the Visual Arts
From the office in her hillside home in Los Angeles, Lisa Pearson, founder and publisher of Siglio Press, muses about the inevitability of her foray into book publishing in 2007 after years spent advocating for the arts.
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Akashic to Launch Open Lens Imprint
Looking to provide a publishing platform for serious literary works, Brooklyn indie publisher Akashic Books is teaming with three notable African-American publishing and bookselling figures to launch Open Lens, a new imprint specializing in quality fiction and nonfiction aimed at the African-American reading audience. The new imprint will be called Open Lens and will debut in September with Makeda, a new novel by Randall Robinson, founder of the human rights and social justice organization TransAfrica.
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News Briefs: Week of 6/13/2011
Borders May Close More Stores and More.
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Macmillan Partners with Raincoast; Will Sell Some Accounts Direct
Following the bankruptcy of its Canadian distributor H.B. Fenn earlier this year, Macmillan has reached an agreement with Vancouver's Raincoast Book Distribution to handle sales and fulfillment for its titles to the independent bookstore, library, and specialty markets as well as for Costco Canada. Macmillan will directly sell to Indigo, Amazon and ID wholesalers. Farrar, Straus & Giroux will continue to be sold by Douglas & McIntyre in Canada.
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Robert McCullough Gets Imprint at RH Canada
Robert McCullough, who was at the Vancouver-based Whitecap Books, will be heading a new imprint at Random House Canada dedicated to food and lifestyle books. McCullough, who will start at RH on July 11, has been at Whitecap 21 years and has been publisher there since 2001. At Whitecap, McCullough published a range of famous chefs including Gordon Ramsay and Curtis Stone.
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Phaidon to Publish 'The Art Museum'
No stranger to mammoth all-encompassing surveys of art history, Phaidon is at it again. In October the art book publisher plans to publish The Art Museum, a nearly 1,000-page comprehensive history of art from antiquity to the present, conceived as a virtual museum-in-a-book that attempts to create the ideal museum, unconstrained by physical space. Compiled over 10 years by more than 100 specialists, the book collects more than 2,500 of the most beautiful and significant works in the history of art.
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Counterpoint Rebounds from Cutbacks
After a year spent reducing the size of its list, closing its New York office, and stabilizing its staff, Berkeley-based Counterpoint LLC is "in a good place," according to president and publisher Charlie Winton, pointing to a spate of high profile reviews coverage and rapid growth of e-book sales. The house also has a number of big titles slated for fall and winter, including a new book by punk rock political activist Sander Hicks, former owner/founder of Soft Skull Press, now a Counterpoint imprint, who returns to Soft Skull to publish what will likely be a controversial book on the events surrounding 9/11.
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News Briefs: Week of 6/6/11
Borders Gets Extension; Sale Process Heats Up and More.
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Akashic Hits the Jackpot with 'Go The F*** to Sleep' Now at 275,000
Calling the book a "fluke hit," Johnny Temple, publisher of Brooklyn Indie house Akashic Books, said he couldn’t be happier about the frenzy over Go The F**K to Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes, a parody of a kids’ picture book that he’s about to release. The surprise hit title has more than 275,000 copies in print and doesn’t go on sale until June 14.
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In Major Deal, EBSCO Acquires H.W. Wilson
In a blockbuster deal for the library market, EBSCO Publishing announced that it has acquired the Bronx-based H.W. Wilson Company. Wilson, which offers more than 80 databases on its well-regarded WilsonWeb platform is a natural fit for EBSCO, a database industry leader with more than 300 databases and nearly 300,000 e-books available via its EBSCOhost platform.
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Classic Rhetoric Sells for David Godine
That a book on classical rhetoric could sell well enough to go into multiple printings even surprised its publisher, David Godine of the eponymous Boston-based press, David R. Godine Publishers. Initially, he doubted whether Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric by Boston University School of Law professor Ward Farnsworth could sell out its first printing of 4,000 hardcovers. But since its late December release, the book has gone back to press twice for a total of 12,000 copies in print. It’s in the top 100 at Amazon for both Education and Reference, words and language.
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New Business Publisher Launches in Boston
Two former executives of Nicholas Brealey Publishing’s U.S. operations have launched the business publisher Bibliomotion (www.bibliomotion.com) in Boston, Mass. Erika Heilman will serve as publisher and Jill Friedlander as president of the new company, which will release books in both digital and print format, starting in spring 2012.
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Penguin Launches Merchandise Line
Penguin is arguable the best known publishing brand in the country and the company is hoping to leverage the Penguin cache by developing a catalogue of sideline products. Penguin Merchandise, whose first products will ship in June, includes a range of products from its well-known tote bags, blank notebooks, mugs, and “gear” (umbrellas and onesie baby clothing for ages 3 to 18 months). Penguin CEO David Shanks said Penguin decided to develop the merchandise line to give bookstores and other retailers that are looking to sell more nonbook items, products that have some relationship to books.
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