The PW Morning Report, March 19, 2008

By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 3/19/2008 5:32:00 AM

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Arthur C. Clarke Dead; Hobbit Sold for Six Figures; Shel Silverstein Book Back-in-Print; U.K. Book Record; Bertelsmann To Dump Book Club?; and "Insulting Turkishness" Will Get You Somewhere

Arthur C. Clarke, SF Icon, Dead at 90, reports New York Times
Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey dies in Sri Lanka

First Edition of The Hobbit Sells for $120,800, reports Reuters Life!
Autographed copy by J.R.R. Tolkien sold in London

Shel Silverstein’s Uncle Shelby’s Zoo Re-released by HarperCollins Children’s Books, reports UPI
Retitled Don’t Bump The Glump! and Other Fantasies, it is available the first time in 30 years

Print-on-Demand Pushes Books Sold in U.K. to All-Time High, reports The Bookseller
Nielsen BookScan says frontlist titles increased 36% in 2007 to 118,602 titles

Bertelsmann to Ditch U.K. Book Club?, asks The Bookseller
A 91% drop in revenue has Bertelsmanm reassessing the situation

Elif Shafak Longlisted for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, reports Reuters Life!
Author of the bestselling The Bastard of Istanbul was prosecuted and acquitted in Turkey for "insulting Turkishness"

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