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PW PicksPW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of January 21, 2013
This week, a book that will make you laugh, a zombie army set loose on a small town, and a brilliant WWII novel.
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Content / e-books
Total Boox Hopes to Change How We Buy E-books
Total Boox (pronounced total books) unveiled a “pay-as-you read” approach to buying books at this week's Digital Book World conference.
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Libraries
What We Buy Now
The first thing I do each Monday morning when I get to work at the White Plains Public Library is review a purchase alert report. By seeing what items have received the largest numbers of holds—or reserves—from my customers, I gain insight into what books and DVDs are trending in my community.
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Content / e-books
EBSCO Strikes Deal with Grey House to Publish Salem Press Titles
EBSCO Publishing this week announced that it has struck an exclusive license with Grey House Publishing to become the publisher of the print editions of Salem Press titles.
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Comics
DC Comics Looks to the Library Market in 2013
In a year that started with an agreement to add Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data to all of its graphic novel collections, DC Comics also reported that overall sales of its graphic novels to the library market grew by “double digits” in 2012 and the publisher is looking to continue that growth in 2013.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair Announces IPA Education Conference
The International Publishers Association and the London Book Fair (LBF) announced the program for the first IPA International Education Conference, a one day event that will run alongside LBF on April 17, 2013. The result of a new partnership, the first program will include a keynote address from Andreas Schleicher, and talks from World Bank’s Michael Trucano, Reed Elsevier’s Y.S. Chi.
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Awards & Prizes
2012 National Book Critics Circle Finalists Announced
The 30 finalists in six categories for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced. Click through for the full list.
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Copyright
Information Activist Aaron Swartz Dead at 26
Aaraon Swartz, the brilliant but troubled young activist and programmer, has died, in an apparent suicide. While details were still emerging, the Internet this morning was abuzz with news of his tragic passing. He was just 26 years old. "There is no way to express the sadness of this day," blogged Lawrence Lessig.
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Nancy Pearl
Check it Out with Nancy Pearl: Guidelines for Book Groups
A reader’s letter sparks a discussion about good books for book groups.
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Authors
The Call That Changes Everything – or Not
How does winning the Newbery or Caldecott medal change the lives of the winners? PW caught up with each of the medalists of the past five years to find out.
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Content / e-books
Gale Launches New Addition to National Geographic Virtual Library
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has launched of a new multimedia resource in its National Geographic Virtual Library (NGVL) series, its third installment.
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Libraries
10,000 Smashwords E-books Acquired by Douglas County Libraries
Douglas County Libraries has acquired 10,000 e-book titles from Smashwords, bringing its total number of e-book files owned to 21,000. All of the content purchased from Smashwords, including books in popular genres such as fiction, romance, mystery, and science fiction, is available for borrowing by library patrons.
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Publisher News
Elsevier Acquires Knovel.com
Elsevier, a unit of the global STM publisher Reed Elsevier, has acquired Knovel.com, an online subscription reference service providing highly technical data primarily aimed at engineers.
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Awards & Prizes
Record Number of Entries for AAP’s 2013 PROSE Awards
Officials from the the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers say they’ve received a record number of entries for this year’s Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards. And, this year, those interested in the judging process can get "sneak peeks" into the the judging, which takes place in New York, via Twitter.
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Content / e-books
U.S. Proposes Timetable For Penguin to Join DoJ Settlement
The United States government is ready for public comments and expects entry of the proposed Final Judgment be filed by no later than May 10, 2013.
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Publisher News
2012: Beyond Disruption: The Year in Review
For the past decade, it has been a ubiquitous term in the publishing and media worlds—disruption. But looking back at the top stories of 2012, and considering what’s on tap for 2013, it may be time to update those PowerPoint slides.
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Publisher News
Will the Copyright Act Open a Floodgate of Contract Rewrites for Authors?
Publishing attorney Lloyd Jassin has been writing and speaking about the termination clause for more than two years.
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Bookselling
The Bestselling Books of 2012
Half of the top 20 bestselling books of 2012 in print were either Fifty Shades titles or Hunger Games titles, and only one book not written by E.L. James or Suzanne Collins—Jeff Kinney’s latest Wimpy Kid title—cracked the one-million-copies-sold mark for the year, according to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks 75%-80% of prints sales.
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Content / e-books
STM Subscription Service Knovel.com Looks to 2013
Knovel.com, an online reference service primarily used by engineers, is heading into 2013 after a year of growth with plans to offer an improved user experience, new content, new tool sets and services and more fully integrate its database offerings into client networks.
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Retailing
E-book Reading Rises, Print Reading Dips
The percentage of adult Americans who read a book this fall fell to 75% from 78% a year ago, according to new survey findings by the Pew Research Center released December 27. The survey of Americans age 16 and older found that 23% of people in the age bracket read e-books in the previous 12 months, up from 16% a year ago, while the percentage who read print books fell to 67% from 72%.
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