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Correction: Liu Xiaobo Book Coming in 2012
In a story we ran in Thursday's PW Daily, about Harvard University Press publishing the first English-language volume of work by Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, we incorrectly cited the book's publication date. The title is scheduled for early 2012, and not December 10.
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Harvard to Pub Book By Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo
Harvard University Press will publish the first-ever volume, in English, of work by Chinese writer and this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo. HUP is planning to do a 20,000-copy first printing of the volume, which is scheduled for early 2012.
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Hard Case Crime Returns with New Lawrence Block Novel and New Publisher
The Hard Case Crime series of mystery novels, which was published by Dorchester between 2004 and earlier this year, will resume publication in September 2011 with a new novel by acclaimed mystery writer Lawrence Block. The series will also begin a relationship with a new foreign house, the UK-based Titan Publishing.
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Recorded Books Has Booker and NBA Winners in Audio Format
Recorded Books has published the exclusive world English audio edition of Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question, winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. The new audiobook, narrated by British actor and narrator Steven Crossley, is available in CD, MP3 CD, Playaway, digital download, and audiocassette formats.
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Penguin Readies Red Classics Line
Following in the footsteps of its U.K. cousin, Penguin Group Canada is launching a new line of Penguin Classics in partnership with the charitable brand "(Product) Red" on December 1 World AIDS Day.
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Dalkey Archives Tests the Series Model
Martin Riker thinks a lot about translations. The associate director at Dalkey Archive Press, which devotes roughly 90% of its 40–50 books a year to literature in translation, is constantly looking for new ways to bring books by foreign authors to American readers. Riker's latest idea seems to be working.
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News Briefs: Week of 11/29/10
'PW' Named Official ‘Show Daily' Publisher; ABC to Merge With ABA; and More.
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Conari Feels Oprah Effect
Mark Nepo's The Book of Awakening has had steady sales since it was published a decade ago by Conari Press, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser. Since the book was named one of Oprah's "Ultimate Favorite Things for 2010" on Monday’s television broadcast, it has shot up to #4 on the Top 100 at Amazon, #3 on BarnesandNoble.com.
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Dreamriver: Four Years of Positive Change
Determined to counteract the general negativity carried by the media, former Peace Corps volunteer Theodore Poulis, an economist by training, founded Dreamriver Press in Brooklyn in December 2006. "There is also much violence, or fear/guilt messages, portrayed in movies and books," Poulis said. Taking as his goal "creating change through words," Poulis began publishing in the areas of the environment and spirituality, starting with Dreamriver's first book, Eastern Wisdom for Your Soul.
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Capstone Makes Books for Africa Donation
Capstone Publishers is getting into the holiday spirit by donating $5 million worth of children's books to Books for Africa, a Minnesota-based nonprofit committed to creating a culture of literacy on that continent. Since 1988, Books for Africa has shipped more than 23 million donated text and library books to 45 countries there. The donated books include both fiction and nonfiction titles from four of Capstone's seven divisions.
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Candlewick Given Recommend Rating by RAN
The Rainforest Action Network has changed the status of children's publisher Candlewick Press from avoid to recommended. Originally, Candlewick was one of three publishers the organization had urged parents to not by books from because they lacked policies that commit them to phase out buying Indonesian paper and pulp from controversial suppliers. According to Candlewick, the change came after the publisher supplied RAN with new information on Candlewick's preexisting paper and environment policies and purchasing practices.
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New Book Review Site Launches
A new online venue for book reviews is attempting to fill the gap left by the newspaper book review sections that have folded in recent years. The New York Journal of Books (nyjournalofbooks.com) posts long-form reviews, meant for consumers, of just-published books.
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Future of NYCIP in Doubt
Struggling to survive despite its parent organization’s financial problems, the loss of its director and now its interim director, the New York Center for Independent Publishing faces an uncertain future.
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News Briefs: Week of 11/22/10
BAM Disappoints; Amazon Acquires Toby Titles: Borders.com Revamped; and More.
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Youngsters Taking Action
Tom Feegel didn't know a movement was about to be born when his seven-year-old son asked him why lots of parents have bumper stickers touting their kids, but kids didn't put stickers on their parents' car saying, "I'm a proud kid of a green parent."
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Forest Group Looks to Ensure Proper Forest Practices
Last May, 11 organizations founded the Forest Legality Alliance, dedicated to reducing trade in illegally harvested forest products, increasing transparency in forest product supply chains, and supporting global supply chain efforts to deliver legal wood and paper. Supporters agree that, to be sustainable, forests must be managed properly.
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Going Green On Paper
Book manufacturers and paper suppliers, still recovering from a difficult 2009, are sticking with sustainability, accelerating the use of proven conservation measures while devising newer practices.
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Sustaining Sustainability
Since the Book Industry Study Group published its benchmark study "Environmental Trends and Climate Impacts" in March 2008, on publishing's impact on the environment, the industry has made important strides in improving its environmental record.
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Bloomsbury’s Bush Book Rides Coattails of ‘Decision Points’
Former president George W. Bush's memoir, Decision Points, has had the inadvertent effect of boosting a book critical of the 43rd president: investigative journalist Russ Baker's Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, which Bloomsbury first published in hardcover in 2008. The book had been chugging along nicely since coming out in paperback in November 2009, but has recently surged in the wake of the massive publicity campaign for Decision Points.
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