The PW Morning Report: Monday, July 20, 2009

By Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 7/20/2009 5:21:00 AM

A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Frank McCourt Dies; Barnes & Noble Consolidates Publishing; E-Book Strategies; Barnes & Noble Enters E-Reader Fray; Amazon’s Kindle Calamity.

Frank McCourt, Author of Angela’s Ashes, Dies at 78
McCourt died yesterday in Manhattan.  Here’s the obituary from the New York Times.

Barnes & Noble Consolidates Publishing Unit
In a cost-cutting measure, B&N is moving its in-house publishing business into its Sterling Publishing unit and getting rid of “a handful” of jobs, according to The Bookseller.

E-Book Strategies
Here’s Mike Shatzkin on strategies for publishing e-books, inspired by Sourcebooks’ experiment with delaying e-book publication until after the hardcover is out.

Barnes & Noble Launches iPhone eReader App
To compete with Amazon’s Kindle App, B&N has put its own eReader in the Apple App store, and according to TUAW, an Apple news blog, it’s frustrating to use.

On Amazon’s Recent Kindle Calamity
The Rumpus compares Amazon’s removal of two purchased titles from customers’ Kindles to Sony invading customers’ hard drives in search of stolen music.

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