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A New Look For Vintage Contemporaries
Vintage Contemporaries' cover designs tend to stay with readers: think The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time's red and black minimalism; Empire Falls's vintage movie poster feel; Motherless Brooklyn's black and white grittiness. As the imprint celebrates its 25th anniversary this fall, it is unveiling a spate of new covers for some of its most iconic books by renowned book designer ...
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IPS Adds VeloPress
Boulder, Colo.-based sports publisher VeloPress is the latest house to sign with four-and-a-half year old Ingram Publisher Services (IPS), which will handle both trade sales and fulfillment.
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Skyhorse Ups Printing of Favre Book
Brett Favre's much-covered indecision about leaving the gridiron might prove an unexpected boon for Skyhorse Publishing.
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Breaking Down Disney's Acquisition of Marvel
Can a mouse and a spider make lots of money together? We'll soon find out. The entertainment world was rocked Monday morning by the news that Disney plans to buy Marvel Entertainment for a cool $4 billion. Even the Kingpin would say that's a lot of dough.
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Disney to Acquire Marvel Comics for $4 Billion
In a blockbuster deal that brings together two of the biggest brands in American film, animation and comic books, the Walt Disney Co. has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in cash and stock.
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Random House Down in First Half of 2009
Random House reported that profits are down for the first half of 2009, in its results issued this morning. With revenue sinking largely due to the U.S. division, the publishing unit was boosted by a strong summer, but, ultimately, held down by the tumbling economy.
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Borders Leads Chains Downward
After falling 6.7% in the first quarter, total sales at the nation's three largest bookstore chains fell 7.5% in the second period and were down 7.3% for the first six months of 2009 ended August 1. The decline was driven primarily by the weak performance of Borders, where revenue fell 17.7% in the second quarter.
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Kindle Market Share on the Rise
Desktop and laptop computers were the preferred way for the public to read e-books through the first seven months of 2009, but their market share has been giving way to a host of new devices, according to the latest research from Bowker's PubTrack Consumer service. Of e-book downloads through July, 40% were made to computers, down from 48% at the end of the first quarter.
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Thinking Outside The Bookstore Box
A new breed of booksellers, many of whom got their start in the B2B world, are finding success by altering the traditional independent bookselling model. They retain a commitment to independent bookselling and frequently belong to both their regional booksellers' association and ABA—and they influence the bestsellers by reporting their sales to the New York Times.
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Soapbox: Small Matters
When I left my longstanding, secure executive editor job at DK Publishing, just three months after giving birth to twins, to become U.S. publisher (and the only U.S. employee) for Kyle Books, it might have seemed like a risky move. But just over four months later, DK is laying off more than 100 people and reducing its list by 20% from the 250 titles it currently produces—and I've just acq...
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BBC Audiobooks for Sale
BBC is looking to sell a majority stake in BBC Audiobooks with a sale hoped to be completed by early 2010.
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Leo Lionni’s First Book Turns 50
Five decades ago, graphic artist Leo Lionni was riding on a train with his two young grandchildren. When their behavior turned from angelic to devilish, Lionni took a copy of Life magazine out of his briefcase and ripped out a page featuring a blue, yellow and green design. After tearing the page into small pieces, he used them to tell a story to entertain the rambunctious youngsters. That story became Little Blue and Little Yellow, Lionni’s first picture book...
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Court Denies Amazon's Motion to Dismiss BookLocker Antitrust Lawsuit
Independent print-on-demand publisher and bookseller BookLocker said yesterday a court has denied Amazon’s motion to dismiss the antitrust lawsuit that BookLocker filed against Amazon, meaning that BookLocker can proceed with its case.
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Haights Cross Tries Another Debt Restructuring; Operating Units Unaffected
Haights Cross is working with lenders to restruturing its debt after an exchange offering was called off. The refinancing is not expected to affect Haights' Recorded Books and Triumph Learning divisions.
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Sales Down, Loss Up in “Transitional” Quarter at Borders
With Borders implementing a number of changes to its store layout, revenue fell 17.7% in the second quarter with comp sales at its superstores off 17.4%. Excluding multimedia, comps were down 13%. Borders expects sales to do better in the second half.
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Barnes & Noble Teams with IREX to offer New Digital Reader
B&N stepped up its efforts to compete with Amazon and the Kindle, announcing plans to partner with Netherlands-based IREX Technologies to offer a new wireless-enabled digital reading device with access to the 700,000 e-book titles available through the newly launched B&N eBookstore.
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Joseph Up at Globe Pequot as Publisher Refocuses
Globe Pequot Press COO Jim Joseph, who assumed Scott Watrous’s duties after his departure last month as president and publisher, has been officially named president.
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Jane Friedman Raises $3 Million
Former head of HarperCollins has disclosed in a filing with the SEC that she has raised $3 million to start OpenRoad Integrated Media.
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Author/Publisher Gives New Meaning to Handselling
Christopher Herz quit his advertising job to walk the streets of Manhattan literally selling copies of his first novel, The Last Block in Harlem, person to person.
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Africa World Press Survives a Tough Economy
The recession, reductions in school budgets and the loss of a number of major independent black bookstores has resulted in some changes at Africa World Press and Red Sea Press, but owner Kassahun Checole emphasized that the Trenton, N.J., houses remain committed to publishing a wide variety of titles on the history, culture and politics of Africa and the African diaspora.
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