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News Briefs: Week of 3/21/11
Borders to Close 28 More Stores and More.
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Ooligan Press Jeopardized by State Budget Crisis
Ooligan Press, the successful student-run publishing division at Portland State University, is being challenged by the fiscal crisis in Oregon and its retiring director might not be replaced at the end of the year.
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Berrett-Koehler Partners with Author Solutions for Self-Publishing Arm
Self-publishing vendor Author Solutions continues to partner with traditional houses. This week, it announced an arrangement with Berrett-Koehler Publishers. The joint venture, Open Book Editions, is aimed at aspiring authors “who can’t be sustainably published through [Berrett-Koehler’s] traditional publication program.”
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Two Colorado Libraries Partner with CIPA to Carry E-books
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Pegasus Books Creates Crime Imprint
Pegasus Books has a new fiction imprint, Pegasus Crime. The line will publish crime fiction, mystery novels, police procedurals, espionage thrillers, and paranormal suspense. Pegasus Crime’s first title, out in April, will be The Preacher, a follow-up to Camilla Lackberg’s international bestseller, The Ice Princess.
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'The Pale King' by David Foster Wallace: The 'PW' Review
A pile of sketches, minor developments, preludes to events that never happen, this isn't the era-defining monumental work we've all been waiting for since Infinite Jest altered the landscape of American fiction.
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Publishers High on Marijuana Books
Former actresses are doing it. New York Times journalists are doing it. Screenwriters are doing it. Writing about marijuana, that is. With the changing legal times, and the jaw-dropping reality that pot has become a $35 billion legal industry in the U.S., the subject is drawing a motley crew of authors.
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Lagardere Publishing Has Post-Meyer Declines
The U.S. and Canada accounted for 23% of Lagardère Publishing's total revenue of 2.16 billion euros in 2010—498 million euros—compared to 25% in 2009—568 million euros, according to parent company Lagardère.
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News Briefs: Week of 3/14/11
Borders Chapter 11 Updates and more.
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Embracing Change, Committed to Mission
Change was in the air at the March 9 annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers. In his final act as AAP chair, Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson North America Education, started the meeting by calling 2010 a "tipping point" for the industry, citing the surge in digital sales, new distribution channels, and greater federal government involvement in funding and legislating education.
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Jordan Fenn Joins McClelland & Stewart, Creates New Imprint
Part of the Canadian distribution company H.B. Fenn and Company, which began bankruptcy proceedings last month, will have new life as an imprint with McClelland & Stewart. Jordan Fenn, former publisher of Toronto-based Key Porter Books, has joined the publisher and is starting a new imprint that will focus on hockey titles.
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Kodansha International to Close
In the wake of Japanese publisher Kodansha and Dai Nippon Printing’s acquisition of New York/Tokyo independent publisher Vertical Inc., Kodansha is closing Kodansha International, an English-language imprint of the giant Japanese publishing house.
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Avon Launches Digital Publishing Imprint
HarperCollins's Avon Books has launched Avon Impulse, an imprint dedicated to digital titles. Avon Impulse will focus largely on e-books; it will also publish POD novels/novellas by Avon writers and new authors.
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News Briefs: Week of 3/7/2011
Random Adopts Agency Model and more.
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'Lord of Misrule,' Surprise NBA Winner, Out in Paper March 8
Lord of Misrule, the long-shot National Book Award fiction winner, is coming out in paperback March 8, only four months after the indie house McPherson & Co. released it in hardcover. Both McPherson and Vintage have high hopes that Jaimy Gordon's novel will continue to sell well and that new attention will be brought to her backlist.
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Fastest-Growing Small Presses, 2011
Finding a niche and sticking to it is considered the golden rule for an independent publisher to have long-term success. And while that was evident again among the 10 indies who made the cut in PW's annual look at fast-growing small presses, every house plots its own particular path.
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Crown Reorganizes Religion Program
The Crown Publishing Group has reorganized its religious publishing program, moving all of its Catholic books under the Image Books imprint and in the process doing away with the Doubleday Religion imprint.
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Open City Magazine Closing; Books Imprint to Continue
The 20-year-old literary magazine Open City announced on Wednesday that it has ceased publication, but that the ten-year-old books imprint will continue publishing full-length books.
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New King to Tackle Kennedy Assassination
Scribner will release Stephen King’s next novel November 8. The publisher calls 11/22/63 “ a 1,000-page tour de force” that “richly imagines a present day high school teacher, Jake Epping who travels back in time to try and prevent the JFK assassination.” The announcement was made through King’s site and S&S has created its own Web page with info on the book.
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Quarto Acquires Cool Springs Press
Quarto Group announced Tuesday that the U.K-based company has acquired Cool Springs Press, headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn. Cool Springs Press will become an imprint of Quayside Publishing Group, Quarto Group’s American subsidiary, headquartered in Minneapolis.
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