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New Generation Takes Over at Shambhala
Last month's appointment of Nikko Odiseos as president of Shambhala Publications completed the Boston press's transition to a family-owned business run by a new generation.
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News Briefs: Week of 1/3/11
Aletheia Cuts B&N Stake; Crown to Pub WikiLeaks Tell-all; and More
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Upcoming NewSouth 'Huck Finn' Eliminates the 'N' Word
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of "all modern American literature."
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What's Ahead In 2011
In creating not one but rather several new business models, all members of the publishing industry are aware that they are establishing precedents that are likely to last well into the future.
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Skyhorse Acquires Sports Publishing Assets; Launches Children's Imprint
Following two other acquisitions this year, Skyhorse Publishing has just closed a third deal, buying Sports Publishing. Sports Publishing went bankrupt in 2008 and Skyhorse's acquisition, which does not include any of Sports Publishing's liabilities, will add books by, among others, Michael Phelps and Dick Vitale to its backlist. The company also announced that it will launch a children's book imprint next fall. The new imprint, set for fall 2011, is called Sky Pony Press.
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New Hampshire Publisher Returns
After her father's death in 2006, Sarah Bauhan wasn't sure that she wanted to take over the New Hampshire publishing business that he had built up over nearly half a century, William L. Bauhan, Inc. This fall, however, Bauhan, who handled book design and managed the company for her father, relaunched the press in Peterborough as Bauhan Publishing, LLC. "I decided it was too deep in my blood," says Bauhan, who remembers packing books as a child.
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Random on Track for Good 2010; Digital Sales Up 250%
Random House will have a good fiscal 2010 spurred by a strong fourth quarter, chairman Markus Dohle told employees in his annual year-end letter. As has become his style, Dohle emphasized the global aspects of Random's operations, and the success of the company’s rapidly expanding digital businesses. Digital sales are expected to be up 250% in 2010 with Dohle noting that in the U.S. this fall, e-book sales accounted for nearly half of the first week sale of certain titles.
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Inner Traditions: 35 Years of Working Niches, Globally
Despite a roiling economic climate, over the past decade 35-year-old Inner Traditions in Rochester, Vt., has more than doubled in size. "While 2008 was bad for all publishers," said founder and president Ehud Sperling,
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News Briefs: Week of 12/20/10
Oct. Sales Fall; Scholastic Results Down.
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Publishing as Family: Publishers Help Authors in Time of Need
This should have been a great year for media artist Dare Greenwald and her partner, artist and curator Josh MacPhee. Last month AK Press released its first full-color book, Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures, 1960s to Now in collaboration with Exit Art. It's based on the touring exhibit they curated, which debuted there in 2008. Inspired by the show, Amy Scholder, executive director of the Feminist Press at CUNY, signed MacPhee for a book on social change, Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution, which is also out now. But since the summer Greenwald has struggled with a rare and aggressive cancer, and MacPhee has had to turn down work in order to care for Greenwald.
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Human Kinetics Hits First Million-Copy Mark
Champaign, Il., publisher Human Kinetics has hit a milestone: its first million-copy seller. The 37-year-old publisher released the first English-language edition of Strength Training Anatomy in 2001 and the third edition pubbed early in 2010. "Never in my wildest dreams did I expect this book to sell one million copies," said the company's CEO.
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Layoffs Follow Bankruptcy of Doubleday Canada Book Club
About 100 employees of the Doubleday Canada Book Club lost their jobs late last week when the company declared that the Canadian operation was bankrupt.
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Turner Down, Odiseos Up at Shambhala
After 22 years at Shambhala Publications, 12 as president and publisher, Peter Turner has stepped down from both roles, and Nikko Odiseos has been named president of the Boston-based publishing house, which specializes in Buddhist publications and classics of the wisdom traditions. Odiseos is an analytical engineer with a background in project management and content management, who has held positions at Microsoft and Fast Search and Transfer.
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'Haiti Noir' Showcases Country's Writers
Akashic Books, which has published the popular Noir series of crime and mystery short fiction set in cities around the world since 2004, is now shining its literary spotlight not just upon an entire country but one that's been in the news for the past year.
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Mountaineers Books Climbs Back
The Mountaineers Books has a lot to celebrate this year aside from its 50th anniversary. Editor-in-chief Kate Rogers said the house, which is the publishing arm of the Mountaineers, a nonprofit organization, did go "through a difficult period starting in fall 2008" and scaled back a bit, decreasing staff and title output from about 40 to 45 titles a year to 25 to 30 (25 titles are slated for 2011). But like many houses, it has come back.
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News Briefs: Week of 12/13/10
NYLS Looks at Google Settlement; Oprah Picks Dickens; and More.
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTEREST ADULT TITLES 2010
The following is a list of African-American interest adult books, fiction and nonfiction, publishing between September 2010 and March 2011.
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTEREST CHILDREN’S/YA BOOKS 2010
The following is a list of African-American interest children's and young adult books, fiction and nonfiction, publishing between September 2010 and March 2011.
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Graywolf to Publish 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner's Poetry
Graywolf Press announced Thursday its latest major acquisition: the nonprofit literary press will publish in 2012 a bilingual edition of June Fourth Elegies, a collection of poems written by Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. June Fourth Elegies, inspired by the June 4, 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, will be the first time a collection of the Chinese dissident's poetry will be published in English.
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News Briefs: Week of 12/6/10
Hard Case Crime Relaunched; Eisemann to Hold Publicity; and More.
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