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MidPoint Thinks Birther Book Could Be Sleeper Hit
Eric Kampmann may soon be thanking Donald Trump. The president of Midpoint Trade Books, Kampmann thinks Trump is, in part, to thank for the unexpected surge in interest in Where Is the Birth Certificate?, which his company distributes.
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'Gone with the Wind' Going Strong at 75
If backlist is the bread and butter of publishing, Gone with the Wind is a very thick slice of Southern corn bread. The book has been a tremendous seller for publishers from Macmillan to Warner since it was first released in 1936. Now, 75 years after its original publication, Margaret Mitchell's novel is continuing its run and getting a push that may help it reach new readers.
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News Briefs: Week of 4/25/11
Kindle in Library Program and more.
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Square One Signs with Allen & Son for Canadian Distribution
Square One Publishers has signed with Canadian distributor Thomas Allen & Son, Limited, which will begin distributing its titles in Canada on May 1. The publisher had previously sold its books into Canada itself and then through its national sales director, with the University of Toronto Press serving as a fulfillment house.
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How Krakauer Got Onto the Mortenson Story and the Launch of Byliner.com
On 60 Minutes Sunday night, Jon Krakauer appeared as a talking head in the program's investigation into the truthfulness of Greg Mortenson's two memoirs, Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools, as well as the management of his charity, the Central Asia Institute. Krakauer appeared on the show as an expert -- a bestselling nonfiction author and fellow climber who could verify some of the details Mortenson disclosed about his trek could not have been accurate. So how did Krakauer get wrapped up in Mortenson's tale? It was not as an author who smelled literary fraud but, instead, as a charitable donor who felt betrayed.
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Mortenson 'Under Review' at Penguin
After a damning expose on 60 Minutes Sunday night, in which the truthfulness of Greg Mortenson's memoirs Three Cups of Tea and the follow-up Stones into Schools were questioned, the author's publisher, Penguin, has said little and has not yet taken any action.
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Editor's Note: Comments Section
A change to a new third-party software solution to power the comments section to our articles was implemented late last week. Unfortunately, during the switch over comments made on all stories stopped displaying. We are working on restoring comments to as many stories as possible.
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Worldreader Expands into Kenya
After two successful trials in Ghana, Worldreader, the nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing a reading culture in the developing world via e-books and e-readers (PW, Oct. 10), has announced that it will expand its efforts into Kilgoris, Kenya, beginning in May.
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CCNY's PCP Program: 14 Years of Building Diversity
Founded by novelist Walter Mosley to address the lack of diversity in the book publishing industry, the Publishing Certificate Program at the City College of New York is in its 14th year, committed to preparing a diverse pool of students for a career in publishing. Staffed with a faculty of publishing professionals, the program is funded in part by grants from New York trade book publishers.
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News Briefs: Week of April, 15 2011
Random Forms Hogarth and more.
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Bill Holding Travel Publishers Liable For Tourist Injuries Dies in Senate
Hawaii House Bill 548—which would hold the publishers of travel guides liable if a reader was injured while engaging in activities or visiting locations they describe—died in the Senate committee on Judiciary and Labor when the deadline passed for the committee to act on it. The bill would have imposed a legal enforceable duty on the writers and publishers of travel information for books, websites, and even advertisements to warn readers and tourists of dangerous conditions in the sites and areas they describe.
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'Scientific American,' W.H.Freeman Debut Science Textbooks For Non-science Majors
Looking to create a new generation of accessible and visually engaging science textbooks, two Macmillan subsidiaries, Scientific American magazine and textbook publisher W.H. Freeman, have teamed up to produce Biology for A Changing World, the first in series of journalistically-driven science textbooks aimed at non-science majors.
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Young Adult to Just 'Adult'
More and more YA authors are writing books specifically for adults; this year, at least five bestselling authors are making the leap. Moving from one audience to the other—and the fluidity between the two—is so popular, in fact, that it will be the focus of a panel at BEA on May 25 starring many of the names below.
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Martin Levin Takes a Turn As Author
Having spent more than 60 years in the book business, industry legend Martin Levin thought he knew how publishing worked, but that was until he started to promote his own recently released title, All I Know About Management I Learned from My Dog. “Every publisher should write a book and try to promote it,” Levin observed. “They’ll learn a lot.”
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News Briefs: Week of 4/11/2011
Watermelon Express Inks Content Deals and More.
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Random Creates Hogarth, a U.S.-U.K. Imprint
Two divisions of Random House that exist across the pond from each other are launching a fiction imprint that will share a close but non-exclusive editorial relationship. The Crown Publishing Group in the U.S. and Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, which is a division of The Random House Group in the U.K., announced the creation of Hogarth today. The imprint will focus on "contemporary, voice-driven, character-rich stories that entertain, inform, and move readers."
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Andrews McMeel Adds New Transmedia Position
Kansas City media company Andrews McMeel announced Monday two changes in their book publishing division. Christine Schillig, book division vp, will assume the role of executive editor, so that she can devote more time to editing and managing her list of authors.
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News Briefs: Week of 4/4/2011
Buoyant Bologna 2011 and more.
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A Profitable Transition, So Far
With Random House reporting its results for 2010 last week, all five of the country's largest trade houses have now turned in their operating performances for last year. And those performances are encouraging, especially for an industry in the midst of a historic transition from print to digital. For all of the Sturm und Drang accompanying the change, publishing in 2010 was as profitable as it has ever been.
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Self-pubbed Title Resurrects Racist Murders
The cover of Stokes McMillan's self-published book, One Night of Madness, represents a familial connection and a link to excellence bridging two generations. It includes both a photo taken by his father that won the 1950 National Press Photographers Association prize, and a gold sticker signifying that the book received a 2010 Independent Publishers Book Award.
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