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Columbia U Press and Columbia B-School Form Imprint
Columbia Business School and Columbia University Press have joined forces and will begin publishing under a new imprint, Columbia Business School Publishing, in October. The imprint will publish books, cases, periodicals and other works in finance, economics and other areas of business scholarship.
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‘Hallows’ Boosts Borders, but Charges Increase Loss
Borders Group reported solid sales gains for the second quarter ended August 4, but a number of one-time items led to a higher loss than a year ago. Total revenue rose 10.4%, to $945.1 million, and the net loss increased to $25.1 million from $18.4 million.
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A Flurry of Sales
A Caltech physics professor's fascination with the physics of snowflakes has become a hot-selling franchise for Minnesota's Voyageur Press, one of three imprints of MBI Publishing in St. Paul. Published with an 18,000-copy initial print run in November 2003, The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty by Dr.
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Led by ‘Hallows,’ B&N’s Sales Rose 7.6%
With Barnes & Noble selling a total of 2.1 million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the second quarter, sales in the period rose 7.6%, to $1.2 billion. Store sales were up 7.3% and online sales rose 17.9%. Comparable sales through its stores were up a total of 4.4%, and 1.0% excluding Hallows.
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Bantam Dell Tries Dual Format Publishing with New Imprint
Random House division Bantam Dell is launching a new imprint, Bantam Discovery, that that will release one title every month, simultaneously in both mass market and trade paperback. The general fiction imprint, set to begin publishing in February 2008, will, it's hoped, address the format dilemma many publishers face.
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B&N Won’t Stock If I Did It in Stores
While Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com will sell If I Did It on their sites, B&N will not carry the book in its traditional bookstores. A company spokesperson said B&N's buyers felt there will not be enough demand for the title to stock the book. Borders will carry the book, but not promote it.
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Harwood Joins Borders
Former head of IT at Books-A-Million Susan Harwood has joined Borders Group in a similar role.
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Harper Adds iPhone App to Browse Inside
A new feature to HarperCollins' Browse Inside service will allow iPhone users to search a few chapters of 14 books in a pilot program.
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Bennett Books to Close
Bennett Books, which has been operated for 19 years by John and Betty Bennett in Wycoff, N.J., will close by the end of September. John Bennett cited higher rent and lackluster sales as the reasons behind the decision.
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HarperCollins ’07 Sales: $1.34B
Led by the general books division, HarperCollins annual revenues rose to $1.34 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, a slight increase over the $1.31 billion reported in fiscal 2006. Operating income for fiscal 2007 declined by $8 million, to $159 million, and operating margin dropped to 11.8% from 12.
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Big Earth Gobbles Up
Three years after launching Big Earth Publishing in the small town of Neenah, Wisc., 100 miles north of Milwaukee, David Oskin is steadily expanding his niche—and in the process, creating a viable new business model. Despite a lack of any previous publishing experience, the former Appleton Coated paper company executive already is seeing positive results in the venture he embarked on in 2...
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Razorbill Hopes to Re-create South African Magic
When Penguin Group USA president Susan Petersen Kennedy spent three days in South Africa last fall visiting schools, bookstores and other cultural institutions, she found herself hearing about Spud: A Wickedly Funny Novel by John van de Ruit (a comic actor of local renown) wherever she went.
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Amazon Launches Galley Program and Self-Publishing Division
Amazon.com is offering customers two new services: access to galleys and the opportunity to publish their own works.
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Lerner Lures Kjoller Away from FSG
Children’s book publisher Lerner Publishing Group has hired Maria Kjoller as director of rights, special sales, and international distribution, as of September 6.
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HC's 2007 Sales Reach $1.34B
HarperCollins' revenues increased slightly in fiscal 2007, although full-year operating income declined by $8 million. CEO Jane Friedman pointed to a fourth-quarter rebound in profits.
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Southern Union
One of America's most respected literary magazines—Virginia Quarterly Review out of the University of Virginia—is teaming up with the University of Georgia Press, longtime publisher of the now-retired Contemporary Poetry Series to bring out a new series of poetry books, tentatively called the VQR Poetry Series, which will debut its first four titles next January.
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Sharkey Looks to Leverage TV Past At HarperCollins
After 27 years in network television, Lisa Sharkey, HarperCollins's new editorial executive, said she's very much at home in the publishing game. A self-described book person, Sharkey—a former producer at Good Morning America and, later, head of Al Roker's production company—was recently brought on to head a new unit called the Creative Development Team.
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New Corey Line Ready to Debut
This fall, Random House will launch a brand-new imprint, and the woman at its helm is no stranger to the world of novelty books. Robin Corey landed at Random House in February 2006; she had most recently been executive v-p and publisher of novelty books, media tie-ins and teen publishing at Simon & Schuster.
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Harlequin Profits Jump on Modest Sales Rise
Harlequin posted modest gains in the second quarter ended June 30, with total revenue up 1.2%, to C$116 million ($110.2 million). Operating income, however, jumped 22%, to C$12.5 million ($11.9 million).
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Little, Brown Wins Richards Autobio
Little, Brown has acquired world English rights to the forthcoming autobiography from famed rocker Keith Richards. The untitled book is scheduled for publication in 2010.
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