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PW Has A New Facebook Page
PW has a new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pubweekly. We hope you'll come check us out over there, "like" us, and join the publishing business conversation in the interactive space that is Facebook.
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PW, DBW Google Settlement Webcast Tomorrow
The Publishers Weekly, Digital Book World WEBcast on the Google Book Settlement rejection is set for tomorrow at 1 p.m. Skott Klebe, chief architect at Copyright Clearance Center joins panelists Pamela Samuelson, professor at the Berkeley Law School & School of Information; and Jame Grimmelmann, associate professor of law at New York Law School. The panel will be moderated by PW, features editor Andrew Albanese.
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A Peek at the May 2 'PW'
An analysis of the digital e-reading market via a Codex Group survey kicks off this week's news section which is followed by a piece on what Rodale is now doing in the digital space. BOA Editions is celebrating 35 years of publishing poetry and other forms of literature largely ignored by commercial houses and we take a look at keys to its success. The mystery and thriller feature examines the role of the spy in books in the genre. The author profile is with Michael Shermer whose Believing Brain is due out from Times Books in June. The Soapbox is by agent Jennifer Weltz who describes selling foreign rights via Skype.
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Kallman Looks for the Sweet Spot
It's not unusual for bookstores to have cafés, so perhaps it's only to be expected that a book wholesaler might want to get into food service, or one of its partners would. That's the case for Bookazine COO Richard Kallman, who recently added a new title, CEO of CupcakeStop. Kallman, who had been an investor in the two-year old business that has two mobile trucks in the New York area and a bakery in Montclair, stepped in following the March departure of founder Lev Ekster.
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Major Campaign for Special K Book
Special K is a $1 billion brand in the U.S., selling an estimated 168 million boxes of cereal a year. This spring, Kellogg's and Weldon Owen are hoping a massive marketing campaign can extend the brand's success into the book world.
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ABC News High On Enhanced E-books
In deciding to launch the ABC Video Bookstore, Andrew Morse said the giant media company was looking for a product that could reach viewers who are attached to a digital reading device, be it an iPad, Kindle, or cellphone, and decided that an enhanced e-book was the right one.
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'Los Angeles Review of Books' Debuts Preview Site
In the first step of a two-phase launch, the long-awaited Los Angeles Review of Books has debuted its preview site at lareviewofbooks.org with essays and reviews by Ben Ehrenreich, Geoff Nicholson, Jane Smiley, Jefferson Hunter, and Richard Prince.
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Publicist by Day, Poet by Night
Melissa Broder, Penguin Group publicity manager, who works on titles from the Berkley, NAL, Riverhead, and Perigee imprints, just signed a contract for her own second book, Meat Heart. The books she works on for Penguin are mostly women's fiction and nonfiction, but her own books are poetry. Broder's had lots of success getting big time publicity for her Penguin authors—she landed spots on the Joy Behar show for both Jen Lancaster and Sloane Crosley in May, for example—but that kind of media isn't particularly interested in poetry.
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Algonquin Launches Author Interview Series
Algonquin Books held the first in its new Algonquin Book Club Author Interviews March 21 at Miami's independent bookseller Books & Books, where local author Edwidge Danticat and local favorite Julia Alvarez sat down to talk about Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies. The sold-out event brought 250 fans in person and 500 more watching via Web cast, streaming live on Algonquin's Web site (www.algonquinbooks.com).
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'PW' to Do Pre-ALA Supplement
For the first time, PW will publish a special supplement ahead of this year's American Library Association's annual conference set for June 23-28 in New Orleans. The pre-ALA issue will be published May 30 and will include features on library funding, the e-book loan controversy and an overview of some of the technology highlights of the meeting in addition to other pieces on the show. "Our subscribers have been telling us they want more coverage of the library market, and the ALA supplement is part of our commitment to act on the request," said PW publisher Cevin Bryerman, who will handle advertising inquiries at cbyerman@publishersweekly.com. Andrew Albanese will be overseeing the supplement's editorial content and can be reached at aalbanese@publishersweekly.com.
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A Peek at the March 28 'PW'
In the News section of Monday's issue, there are items on total sales at the nation’s three largest bookstore chains; and Warner Brothers’s takeover of DC Comics’s licensed publishing. The Retailing page offers a look at Chicagoland’s bookselling landscape, which has been hit hard by Borders’s financial troubles. There’s an interview with renowned science writer James Gleick, and our National Poetry Month package includes a feature on poetry and e-books, a piece on poets with books to watch this spring, and a Why I Write essay by Kathleen Ossip. There’s a feature on spring and summer sports books and a Q&A with Albert Brooks. On the Soapbox page, grad students share their impressions of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.
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A Peek at the March 21 'PW'
Monday’s issue of the magazine features our annual Facts and Figures feature, and in 2010, familiar names led hardcover fiction, while in trade paperbacks, it was the Stieg Larsson show. Also, this year, for the first time in PW’s 100+ years of annual features on bestsellers, the magazine collected statistics on e-book sales. In the Retailing section, there’s a story on a Washington, D.C., toy store that’s moving into books. Rachel Deahl and Calvin Reid come back from SXSWi a bunch of new paradigms, and in Soapbox, a book editor writes about enlisting her five-year-old son’s help in editing a manuscript. A piece in News looks at author Karin Slaughter's efforts to raise money for libraries, while two charts show who is the largest outlet for trade books and what format is poised to supplant mass market paperbacks.
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PW JobZone Job of the Day
Workman Publishing is looking for a Production Editor to manage and traffic all stages of books and calendars--from manuscript to bluelines--as well as proofread jacket and cover copy. For more info and to apply, click here. For more jobs, check out PW Jobzone.
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A Peek at the March 14 'PW'
In the News section of Monday’s issue of the magazine, we look at the AAP annual meeting and at the NBCC winners in words and pictures. Rachel Deahl has a piece on why publishers are high on marijuana books, and our children’s coverage includes a piece on children’s books publishing in Asia. In Retailing, there’s a look at three Northern California bookstores that have successfully transitioned to new owners. A package on the London Book Fair features a round-up of hot titles publishers are bringing to the fair, as well as highlights from the scheduled programming.
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HarperOne Moves Up Bell Title
A surge of controversy that followed the release of the book trailer for Rob Bell's Love Wins: Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived on Twitter has prompted HarperOne to move the on-sale date from March 29 to March 15.
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HarperCollins, S&S launch New Online Reader Services
HarperCollins and S&S have both launched new services intended to give readers special access and contact with their favorite authors. HarperCollins has launched Bookperk.com, a website offering readers exclusive deals on merchandise and events, and S&S has launched an "Ask the Author" video channel with VYou.com that lets authors talk and engage their readers via videos posted in response to questions.
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A Peek at the February 28 'PW'
In Monday’s issue of the magazine, there’s a piece on how B&N is looking for the right print/digital balance; a story on the vast licensing empire surrounding the Dummies brand; and a look at Seven Stories’ forthcoming “There Are Things I Want You to Know” About Stieg Larsson and Me by the author’s longtime companion. Our international coverage includes a piece on the worldwide launch of the final book in Jean Auel’s Earth’s Children series and international bestseller lists. In Retailing, an article on a world with fewer Borders finds a downsized chain doesn’t necessarily mean a windfall for indies. A feature on travel guides features a Why I Write essay by Rick Steves. In children’s, a new novel, Between Shades of Gray, reveals a hidden chapter in WWII history.
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Haymarket Author Denied Visa
Chicago publisher Haymarket Books expects to put on hold a book tour for Omar Barghouti scheduled for April because the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem has denied him a visa to enter the country. Barghouti, the founding member of the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment, Sanction Campaign, is the author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. The book is being released in April with a 4,000-copy first print run.
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A Peek at the February 21 'PW'
Monday’s issue of the magazine has lots of Borders coverage, looking at the history of the chain, as well as its future. There is coverage of Toy Fair and Tools of Change, and in Retailing, we take a look at bookstore sales in 2010, which fell, although not as much as many had feared. The bulk of the issue contains our children’s announcements, and there is a story on Lauren Myracle, “this generation’s Judy Blume.” In Reviews, there is a boxed review of Field Gray by Philip Kerr; a Q&A with Louis Bayard, author of The School of Night; and boxed reviews of two examinations of the history and the future of the world’s water supply. The Soapbox shares stories from the Sacramento Bee Book Club.
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A Peek at the February 14 'PW'
In Monday’s issue of the magazine, there’s a piece on the viability of distribution in Canada and the government’s supporting role of the industry in light of Fenn's bankruptcy. There’s an item on three tongue-in-cheek websites that recently impressed publishers enough to make the jump to print, as well as a story on “playing fair” in mystery novels. We look at the “quiet revolution” taking place at venerable comics publisher Archie Comics, and at the University of Nebraska Press’s Bison Books. Cory Doctorow is back with his “With a Little Help” column, and in Retailing, Marc Jacobs adds bookselling and publishing to its empire. A feature on the global market for cookbooks explains what qualities make cookbooks attractive to readers outside the U.S. Also, Dan Ozzi writes a piece on award-winning Washington Post book critic Ron Charles’s creative, entertaining video book reviews and their runaway success; and there is a profile of Meghan O’Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye.
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