TODAY'S NEWS

Simon & Schuster in Deal with Scribd to Sell e-Books
By Andrew Albanese
Simon & Schuster has announced that it has entered into a deal with Scribd, the surging online “social publishing company,” that claims some 60 million readers a month, to sell books. Starting immediately, readers will have access to a Simon & Schuster “storefront” in the recently launched Scribd Store, a special section of the Web site where users can browse and purchase S&S titles. At launch, nearly 5,000 Simon & Schuster e-book titles will be available on Scribd for purchase in Adobe’s PDF and ePub formats and readable on Scribd.com, both on desktops and on various mobile devices. Titles include bestselling books from authors such as Stephen King, Dan Brown, Mary Higgins Clark, Chelsea Handler and Steve Martin. In addition, Simon & Schuster will make thousands of print titles available for preview with links to purchase from the Simon & Schuster Web site. Read on »

Berean Christian Stores Files Chapter 11, Seeks Buyer
By Jim Milliot
Berean Christian Stores has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and, according to its filing, is seeking a buyer for the company. In its court papers, Berean said that Berean Christian Stores Endeavor, a limited liability company, will serve as a “stalking horse” to draw out other interested buyers for the retailer. It was not clear at press time who the owners of Berean Christian Stores Endeavor are or how much they are willing to pay for the company. The investment banking firm Silverstone Capital has been hired to explore Berean’s alternatives, including the sale of the company. Read on »

Sedaris Small City Tour Playing Big
By Claire Kirch
Author and radio personality David Sedaris is mixing it up on his current 24-city author tour to promote the paperback release of When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Little, Brown). Like most bestselling authors, Sedaris is making the typical big-city stops on the circuit, but he’s also making stops in cities with populations hovering between 85,000-120,000 – places like Evansville, Ind., Duluth, Minn., and Fargo, N.D. Read on »

Michael Thomas Wins IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Michael Thomas has won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel, Man Gone Down, which Black Cat, a paperback original imprint of Grove/Atlantic, published in 2007. The IMPAC Dublin is the world’s richest literary prize, worth €100,000 (almost US $150,000). A Grove spokesperson said the publisher has 50,000 copies of the title in print and is going back to press for another 10,000.Read on »

A Tweet Treat?
By Karen Springen
Forget watching The View. On Wednesday morning, plugged-in booksellers, writers and fans instead viewed a live, one-hour Twitter exchange between Nancy Mercado, executive editor of Roaring Brook Press, and Nan Marino, author of Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me. Set in the moonwalk year of 1969, the critically acclaimed middle-grade book tells the tale of Tamara Ann Simpson and a fibbing 10-year-old dubbed Muscle Man. Read on »

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A New Role for ‘Nanny Diaries’ Authors
In 2002, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus suddenly found themselves in the spotlight when The Nanny Diaries, their debut novel based on their experiences as Manhattan nannies, hit the bestseller lists. Now, seven years later, they have published their first young adult novel, The Real Real (HarperTeen), centering on a 17-year-old whose life takes a similarly dramatic turn when she is cast in a reality show filmed at her Long Island high school and thrust into a clique of glamorous classmates. With the cameras constantly rolling and the show’s producers playing with the teens’ lives to heighten the drama, Jesse must struggle to remember what is really real. Read on »

Monday's Reviews Today: LaValle's Latest & Sublette's NOLA
In Victor LaValle's new novel, Big Machine, a former addict delivering a note given to him stumbles upon a bizarre subculture known as the “Unlikely Scholars,” a group of black former addicts and petty thieves who live in a remote Vermont locale and read voraciously about the supernatural. With this book, the critically acclaimed LaValle "is sure to up his critical standing while furthering comparisons to Haruki Murakami, John Kennedy Toole and Edgar Allan Poe." And in Ned Sublette's The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans, the New York musician goes back to New Orleans, his hometown, offering a pre-Katrina take on the place, from a visit in 2004-2005, "in this blunt, eloquently humane and musically astute memoir." Read on »

Job Moves
Len Vlahos has been named COO of the ABA. Vlahos, who joined the ABA staff in 1992 and has held various positions there over the years, steps into the role Oren Teicher held until he was recently promoted by the ABA board to CEO of the organization. Vlahos will continue to oversee the ABA's education and e-commerce programs.

John Vaccaro has joined Juicyorange LLC as marketing and strategy partner. Juicyorange is a design and technologyogy services company specializing in creating web sites with content management systems and iPhone applications. Vaccaro was most recently at Condé Nast Digital and, before that, general manager, brand development and digital media at PW's parent company, the Reed Business Information. Vaccaro can be reached at john@juicyorange.com.

The PW Morning Report
S&S on Scribd.Com; Maybe Hachette Too; Amazon’s Seattle Bookfest? Hornby on E-books. Read on »

AUTHORS ON THE AIR

Authors on the Air: Food, Inc.; The Taking of Pelham 123; The Scandal of Reform
Today on NPR’s Morning Edition, producer Robert Kenner discussed his documentary Food, Inc., which launches in three cities today and in wide release in the coming weeks. The companion book, edited by Karl Weber, is Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer–And What You Can Do About It (PublicAffairs, 978-1586486945, $14.95). Read on »

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Hawaiian Green
On Sunday at the Lahaina Barnes and Noble on Maui, Bryan Fryklund, author of The Golf Fanatic's Guide to Hawaii (Hot Tub Publishing), was joined by community relations manager Danielle Konstantinos before signing copies of his book, which he is promoting in the Islands for Father's Day. Click here to submit you pictures »

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