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Guns and Diplomacy: Mysteries & Thrillers Fall 2012
As Buckminster Fuller once said, “The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
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Anything Goes: Focus on Romance: Fall 2012
Romance fiction used to be simple: boy meets girl, conflict is overcome, they live happily ever after. Anything else was taboo.
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Fall 2013 Announcements Registration
Instructions and registration for PW's Spring 2013 Announcements.
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New Trends & Time-Tested Traditions: Self-Help 2012
“Isn’t the very term ‘self-help’ a little old-fashioned? Doesn’t self-help really refer to any book right now that serves the very natural drive of all human beings to find happiness and to be the best that they can be?”
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Art Is a Gift: Illustrated Gift Books 2012
We may like to think that any book is a gift—and any one surely can be. But let’s face it, some make better gifts than others. And when it comes to gifts at the higher price points, thanks to production costs and a narrower market there are certain books that are more appropriate choices than others.
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Defeat: Sports Books 2012
On any given day of the week, moms and dads ferry their children to soccer practices, baseball games, track meets, football scrimmages, and tennis matches in an effort to get their young players to imitate the discipline and to develop the skills of sports heroes.
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On the Journey from There to Here: New Age 2012
Whether you call it New Age or Mind/Body/Spirit, one mission is common to all publishers in this ever widening category—finding titles that will challenge, intrigue, and nourish both devoted longtime readers and the growing number of readers who are open to exploring everything from alternative medicine to Eastern philosophies.
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Wing: Pets & Animals 2012
For years now, the pets and animals category has followed a certain hierarchy: dogs on top, cats beneath them, and “other” animals—birds, snakes, gerbils, hamsters, horses, and assorted other furry friends—grouped a rung below.
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Crossing the Streams: Sci-Fi and Fantasy
We are living in the age of the remix. No genre is sacred, and no compound is too far-fetched. As debates heat up over ownership and licensing of creative works, genre readers and publishers have clearly already decided that the genres themselves are common property and fair game for dissection and recombination.
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The Music Didn’t Die: Focus on Music 2012
If this fall’s crop of music books is any indication, we’ve turned our radios on to listen closely for the lyrical as well as the tuneless attempts by artists, biographers, and historians to record the high notes, low notes, missing voices, and lost chords of music for a new generation.
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Dealing with Change: Spanish Publishers in the U.S. 2012
E-books, the recession, a decrease in immigration, and the closing of Borders have all affected the Spanish-language book industry, but this nimble sector has been able to adapt to the changing landscape. PW spoke with some of the publishers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, and librarians who service this market to find out how they are managing the challenges and opportunities of the marketplace.
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Religion Update Fall 2012: Christian YA Fiction Coming into full bloom
Christian teen fiction is coming into its own these days as sales rise for both digital and traditional books, and as publishers look for the next bestselling series. While Christian publishers haven’t found juggernauts that compare to Harry Potter, the Hunger Games, the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, or the Twilight series, it’s not for lack of trying.
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Religion Update Fall 2012: Books on Marriage Keeping it Real—and Practical
Books on marriage from a religious point of view are heavily published by evangelical Christian houses, and this year their books on the subject keep clearly in focus the idea that a good marriage requires effort. New titles that promise everything from long-term strategies to quick fixes are all designed to improve and strengthen what for many people is the longest, most complex relationship of their lives.
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Religion Update Fall 2012: There’s a Parenting Book for That: Trying to stand out in a crowded category
Is your teen talking back? Is your toddler not yet talking? There’s a book for that.
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Indie Sleepers Titles to Watch: Indie Sleepers Fall 2012
From Akashic and McSweeney’s to the university presses of Chicago, Harvard, and Yale, independent and university presses make up an essential part of the inventory of all bookstores. For Paul Yamazaki, head buyer at City Lights in San Francisco, they create “the heart” of the bookstore. “Rexroth, Patchen, Adrienne Rich, Neruda, Walter Benjamin, and many other poets, novelists, historians, and philosophers would vanish from our shelves if indie and university presses were not represented well,” he says. And City Lights relies on these presses for more than 30% of its backlist sales, which represents a significant percentage of the store’s sales overall.
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The Lives of Wars: Military Books 2012
Unlike Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s old soldiers who “never die; they just fade away,” books on military history often refuse to disappear, retaining their popularity for decades or even hundreds of years.
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The ‘Fifty Shades’ Tail: How Long, And Far, Will It Stretch?
Those who thought interest in Fifty Shades of Grey would be a flash in the pan were, well, wrong. The trilogy has sold over 10 million copies in print alone. Industry insiders are now asking themselves where the Fifty Shades readers will turn next.
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Getting Healthy: Focus on Health 2012
Gone are the days when patients relied solely on information straight from the doctor’s mouth. The health-conscious face a multitude of would-be advisers online, from Google-derived self-diagnosis and treatment to WebMD’s frightening postings on exotic illnesses. Unwilling to be left out, book publishers, too, are joining the fray, with a cornucopia of rich offerings in the health category.
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Going Electronic
Cookbooks are quickly migrating into e-books—even the James Beard Foundation will open next year's awards to include digital cookbooks.
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Falling for Films of Fall: Movie Tie-ins Fall 2012
In addition to the diverse assortment of new releases and top-of-the-line stars, this season’s tie-ins might also represent the largest crop of classic movie revisions we’ve collected in some time—Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights, Les Misérables (the musical!)—sprinkled with a liberal dose of contemporary star power. Among the noted authors represented are such classic and current names as Tolstoy, Emily Brontë, F. Scott Fitzgerald, David Mitchell, Lee Child, and Yann Martel. As usual, several new releases are dedicated to the younger set: this season’s movies run the gamut from a resurrected—pun intended—1984 Tim Burton short (Frankenweenie) to a new format for an old favorite (Finding Nemo 3D), and from the final bow for a big-screen juggernaut (Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2) to a pair of silver screen debuts (Rise of the Guardians and Wreck-It Ralph).
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