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Borders Names Michael Edwards New Head of Merchandising
Michael Edwards, most recently president and CEO of Ellington Leather, a Portland, Ore.-based wholesaler of leather handbags and accessories, has been named to succeed Anne Kubek who held the post of executive v-p, merchandising and marketing.
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Scribd Author’s Hardcover Debuts on ‘Chronicle’ Bestseller List
Kemble Scott's The Sower, first posted on Scribd, has hit the San Francisco Chronicle's bestsellers list after it was published by Numina Press.
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Andrews McMeel Expands Relationship with Simon & Schuster
Andrews McMeel Publishing and Simon & Schuster announced Monday afternoon that S&S will handle the sales of AMP books to the trade in the U.S. and Canada, effective Jan. 1, 2010.
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The Flavor Bible Still Selling One Year Later
On September 7, The Flavor Bible celebrated one year on Amazon’s “Cooking, Food & Wine” top 100 bestseller list. And, its authors are quick to add, before Julie & Julia-related books took over much of list’s prime real estate, The Flavor Bible spent most of its life in the top 25. How did a book without a movie tie-in, national TV presence or celebrity authors, that doesn’t contain one recipe, achieve such success?
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Welcome's Slow Food Book Could Be Breakout Indie Hit
Sleeper alert: one of this fall’s indie hits could be a gorgeous photography book on Italy's slow food movement. Welcome Books won’t release Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town by photographer Douglas Gayeton until next month, but it has already gone back for a second printing, bringing the total to 25,000 copies. The project began as a PBS Web series, grew into an art exhibition, and is now Welcome’s lead title for fall.
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A Day for the Bookstores
This fall, we invite you to join Publishers Weekly in celebrating the first annual National Bookstore Day, a day devoted to celebrating bookselling and the vibrant culture of bookstores. This year's day will take place on Saturday, November 7, and to make it a success we need your help and participation.
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It’s Good to Be Hachette
No matter what currency you are talking about, Lagardère Publishing Group was the big winner among the five largest trade houses operating in the U.S. in the first half of 2009. The parent company of Hachette Book Group was the only publisher to post an increase in both sales and profits in the six-month period.
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Haights Cross to Restructure Debt As Part of Pre-Packaged Bankruptcy
Haights Cross Communicaitions has reached an agreement with its major lenders to lower its debt obligations through a restructuring made as part of a pre-packaged bankruptcy filing. The day-to-day operations of Triumph Learning and Recorded Books will be unaffected by the debt restructuring.
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Balliett Leaving Hyperion to Head Thames & Hudson
Will Balliett is leaving as editor-in-chief of Hyperion to become president and publisher of Thames & Hudson Inc.
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Simon & Schuster Launches Site for Academic and Library Markets
Simon & Schuster has designed a new site specifically geared toward the academic and library community. Simonandschuster.net features information for teachers and librarians for grades K-12, public librarians, and professors and librarians in higher education.
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Penguin Classics Headed to Brazil
Thanks to an exclusive agreement with 23-year-old Brazilian publisher Companhia das Letras, Penguin Classics will begin publishing in Brazil. The initial list of titles will drop next year.
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Candlewick Goes Hi-Tech with DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo has come a long way from her debut author tour in 2000, which consisted of only two bookstore appearances in Minnesota: the Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul, and Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis. While the turnout at both events promoting DiCamillo’s first novel was "nice," the Twin Cities resident recalls, it was only "because my friends all came." This fall, DiCamillo’s publisher is making sure the bestselling author reaches more readers than ever before.
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Reynolds Book Inspired by Rose Kennedy Moved Up
With the recent death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Candlewick Press announced that it is moving up the on-sale date for Rose’s Garden, Peter H. Reynolds’s tribute to Kennedy’s mother and to a Boston park named after her, from February 2010 to October 13. The picture book, which tells of a girl named Rose who gathers seeds from around the world and comes to Boston, "poignantly captures my mother’s enduring spirit," wrote the Senator...
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Penguin Young Readers Shares Its New Point of View
Five backlist novels and two new titles are featured in Point of View, a fall marketing initiative from Penguin Young Readers Group. The campaign, which focuses on literary books with strong, somewhat challenging themes, entails consumer and trade components and aims to connect readers who embraced such novels as Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher and Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson to new books with a similar appeal.
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Tor.com Releases First Book
Tor.com recently announced that David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer’s anthology Year’s Best Fantasy 9 is available as a print-on-demand paperback, priced at $15.95. The book’s release marks Tor.com’s debut as a publishing entity, distinct from Tor Books.
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Levitz Steps Down at DC; Nelson to Head Revamped DC Entertainment
Paul Levitz will step down as president and publisher of DC Comics, which in turn will be reorganized and renamed DC Entertainment. Diane Nelson, formerly president of Warner Premier, Warner Bros. direct-to-DVD unit, will take over as president of DC Entertainment.
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Blu Sky Media Shutting Down
Small press distributor Blu Sky Media Group is going out of business, but has reached an agreement with its bank that gives clients 120 days to find a new home. Blu Sky was the distributor of the self-published hit, The Lace Reader.
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Patterson Signs 17-Book Deal with Hachette
James Patterson has signed a new 17-book deal with Hachette that will include 11 adult novels and six young adult works, in a deal extending through 2012.
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Tyrus Books Brings Star Power to Literacy Efforts
Tyrus Books is teaming up with actor Morgan Freeman for several publishing-related events aimed to improve literacy in the Mississippi Delta.
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Disney Buys Marvel
Disney's $4 billion acquisition of Marvel spurred a flurry of Internet jokes—X-Men: Mutant High School Musical, among them—but jokes aside, this is a union of two publishing and licensing powerhouses. Disney is the world's biggest licensing company, with more than $30 billion a year in licensing revenue.
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