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Harlequin, Author Solutions Form Self-Publishing Imprint Harlequin Horizons
Author Solutions has teamed up with Harlequin to form Harlequin Horizons, a new imprint for self-published romance authors.
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New Investor Makes Loan, Considers Stake to MacAdam/Cage
After more than a year of layoffs and complaints of nonpayment from creditors as it struggles to restructure, San Francisco-based independent publisher MacAdam/Cage has secured a new investor who is offering an immediate loan and an offer to buy a 30% stake in the house.
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September Bookstore Sales Increase 7%
Bookstore sales jumped 7.0% in September, to $1.58 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Monday morning.
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Low Price Items Lead Hastings
Unit sales increased 6.9% at Hastings in the third quarter, but sale still fell as consumers focused on low-priced items. Book comps rose 0.2% driven by used and bargain books.
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Financiers Turned Authors: 'The Good Men Project'
Two former venture capitalist decided to fund the publication of an anthology on manhood after the project was turned down by 50 publishers. They have so far drummed up lots of pre-pub publicity.
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University of Minnesota Press Has Weinstein Tie-in
The University of Minnesota Press is doing a 25,000-copy tie-in edition for A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood that is being released as a film by the Weinstein Company in December. The press has set up a Web site to promote both the book and the movie.
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Quirk Launches Mash-Ups Site
Running with the success of its mash-up titles, launched with the surprise bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Quirk Books has unveiled a Web site dedicated to its tongue-in-cheek series, QuirkClassics.com.
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Cengage Learning Charges Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with Breach of Contract
Cengage Learning is seeking at least $20 million from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for what it charges was HMH's actions to saturate the international textbook market prior to its sales of the HMH college division to Cengage.
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AmazonEncore Adds Three Titles
Amazon adds three new titles to AmazonEncore. Its first book, Legacy, has sold 1,000 copies since August.
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Small Montreal Publisher Is Back in Spotlight With New Jolie-Pitt Tell All
Transit Publishing, the small Montreal-based house that made headlines for selling the rights to Ian Halperin’s now-bestselling Michael Jackson biography Unmasked, is looking to get back in the headlines with another Halperin tell-all, this one about Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
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Hachette Book Group in New Tech Deal
Hachette Book Group has signed with Tata Consultancy Services in an agreement through which TCS will provide targeted application and development support services that will help HBG to continue to expand in the digital market.
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James Tabbed to Run Harlequin’s E-book-only Carina Press
In a move that signifies the importance of women readers and the romance genre in driving e-book sales, romance publisher Harlequin is launching Carina Press, a digital-only publishing venture that will be run separately from Harlequin’s conventional publishing program.
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A Look At Amazon's Vine Program
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Holt Wins Auction for New Elizabeth Kolbert Book
Henry Holt executive editor Gillian Blake has won a hotly contested auction for New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert's new book, The Sixth Extinction. Blake beat out eight other houses for the book, which will be expanded from the author's May 2009 New Yorker piece of the same name.
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Simon & Schuster Unveils Internal E-galley System
Simon & Schuster has unveiled an e-galley program to provide digital ARCs to the media. Galley Grab, which is still in beta at www.galleygrab.com, offers DRM protected downloads of S&S titles, for review and feature coverage, which can be read on varioues e-readers, including the Sony eReader and the Nook.
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Third-Quarter Profits Jump at Harlequin
Third-quarter sales rose 22.5% at Harlequin on a 3.7% sales gain. Earnings were helped by lower costs and foreign exchange.
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McIntosh Named to New Spot at Random House
Madeline McIntosh is returning to Random House in a newly created high level post in which she will report directly to CEO Markus Dohle.
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Publishing Results Drop at Marvel
Marvel Enterainment announced this morning that sales in its publishing segment fell 6% in the third quarter ended September 30, to $48.9 million. Operating income declined 19.7%, to $10.2 million.
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Borders Offers “In-Stock Guarantee”
Borders has started a new holiday program under which it will ship for free any item listed on Borders.com that is not in-stock in a store where a customer is shopping.
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Simon & Schuster Selling e-Chapters
Simon & Schuster has started to sell individual e-chapters to its bestselling You series of titles written by Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz. The initiative was developed as part of a broader effort by Dr. Oz to provide answers about health on his www.askdoctoroz.com Web site.
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