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Bloomsbury Forms Worldwide Publishing Divisions
U.K.-based Bloomsbury is restructuring its global operations, forming four worldwide divisions organized along categories rather than structuring the company along geographic lines.
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News Briefs: Week of 2/7/11
H.B. Fenn Bankrupt and More.
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Harper Changes the Audio Equation
Of the 150 titles on HarperCollins’s spring audio list, only two are being published on CD; the rest are being released as digital downloads. Although CD sales have been declining in the audio market for several years, no major house has moved away this drastically from the format.
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IBPA in Deal With Ingram
The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) has announced a new program for IBPA member publishers that will provide access to Ingram’s wholesaling and marketing programs. While IBPA believes the agreement will provide benefits to all members it will particularly helpful to presses with who are not currently working with the company.
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Metropolitan Books Bumps Up ElBaradei Title
With the international spotlight focused on Egypt, and the continuing unrest there, Metropolitan Books is pushing up its forthcoming title from Mohamed ElBaradei. The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times will be published around the world on April 26. The book was originally scheduled for June 3.
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Writer's Digest, Author Solutions Launch Abbott Press
Writer's Digest, the longtime publication and media company devoted to helping writers get published, is teaming up with self-publishing vendor Author Solutions to launch Abbott Press, a Writer's Digest-branded self-publishing division that will be managed by Author Solutions.
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News Briefs: Week of 1/31/11
Doubts Remain on Borders Financing, and more.
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Red Hen Press Works to Keep Poetry Relevant
To walk into the vintage Craftsman-style building that houses Red Hen Press in Pasadena, Calif., is to be reminded that founders Kate Gale and Mark Cull still believe in the cozy literary refinement and enduring reverence for poetry that they have been advocating since 1994, when the press released its first book.
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PGW and Grove/Atlantic Renew and Add E-Books
Grove/Atlantic and Publishers Group West have renewed their physical book distribution relationship, which has been in existence since 1994, and PGW will now provide digital distribution for Grove/Atlantic through its digital service, Constellation.
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Call for Information: Spring/Summer 2012 On-Sale Calendar
Needed: We're collecting information about your biggest titles to be published from May 1 through August 31, 2012 for our ON-SALE CALENDAR.
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TFH Publications and Discovery Renew Animal Planet Program
Pet publisher TFH Publications and Discovery Communications announced the five-year renewal of their co-branding Animal Planet print publishing program this week. The companies also added two new series.
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BookMasters Teams with MPS, Biohealthcare Publishing
The BookMasters Group has created an arrangement for its publishing clients to publish e-books. It also just announced a warehousing/fulfillment partnership with Biohealthcare Publishing in Oxford, UK.
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LBYR Expands to West Coast
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers' fiction editorial director, Jennifer Hunt, is relocating to Los Angeles and expanding the imprint's presence on the West Coast. Hunt, who oversees the middle grade and YA lists at LBYR, will be working out of a home office in L.A. and will be, as the publisher notes, providing "an on-the-ground representative to explore opportunities in the entertainment and digital arenas."
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NBN to Downsize
In a letter that went out to National Book Network publishers yesterday, president Rich Freeze announced that NBN will not be adding any new clients and will downsize instead. "Our goal is to gradually shrink the number of clients we work for in order to serve you better," he wrote.
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New Christian Publishing House Debuts
Veteran Christian publisher Byron Williamson has announced the launch of a new publishing house, Worthy Publishing, which releases its first books this fall.
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FastPencil Premiere Signs Mercer Mayer
In less than six months, FastPencil Premiere has signed 20 authors, many of them bestsellers, and it announced its latest big name this week: children's book author and illustrator Mercer Mayer, who plans to release nine books with the imprint this year.
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News Briefs: Week of 1/24/11
Borders Lays off 45; Pubs Ponder Proposal, and More.
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New Haven Review Turns Book Publisher
The New Haven Review is the latest literary/cultural journal to dabble in book publishing. Late last year NHR published its first three books, slim paperbacks with deckled-edges and French flaps of Charles Douthat’s poems, Blue for Oceans; Gregory Feeley’s combination essay and novella, Kentauros; and Rudolph Delson’s wooing advice, How to Win Her Love.
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Random To Take Over Blue Apple Distribution
Independent children's publisher Blue Apple Books is moving its distribution services to Random House Publisher Services from Chronicle Books effective July 1, 2011. RHPS will handle sales and distribution worldwide for Blue Apple's 225 in-print titles and for future publications.
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