Sep 02, 2010
PW Select, PW’s new quarterly supplement listing for self-published titles, has just been launched; it’s for children’s books as well as general trade, comics and graphic novels. The PW Select registration site is now live and accepting submissions for the first supplement, which will appear in PW’s year-end issue in December.
PW Select will provide a quarterly listing of self-published titles that have been submitted to the magazine for listing and will charge a $149 processing fee to be included in the inaugural listing. Self-publishers who are PW subscribers get one listing for free and the processing fee also includes a six-month subscription to a digital edition of PW. While each supplement will also review at least 25 books, the processing fee does not guarantee a review. Titles to be reviewed will be determined by the entire PW editorial staff. In addition to the listings and the reviews, the supplement will offer news as well as an overview of trends and a look at authors in the self-publishing marketplace.
The rise in self-publishing, DIY, subsidy or vanity publishing—whichever term you prefer—is probably one of the most significant changes in the publishing industry in recent years. Since Publishers Weekly was founded in 1872, the magazine has strived to cover the entire publishing industry and this new supplement is simply our latest effort to fulfill our historic mandate. Over the last 20 years, self-publishing has produced an explosion of new authors and new books. Nearly 800,000 books were produced in the U.S. last year and were characterized by Bowker as "nontraditional"; much of this was self-published and POD.
PW Select’s purpose is help showcase self-published books that deserve a wider audience, and we encourage authors who have self-publishing on their minds to give PW Select a look. The two-month reading period for our inaugural December supplement is under way now.
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| 2 | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs / Author |
| 3 | The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) Rick Riordan / Author |
| 4 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick / Author, Brian Selznick / Illustrator |
| 5 | The Lost Hero Rick Riordan / Author |
| 6 | War Horse: (Movie Cover) Michael Morpurgo / Author |
| 1 | Elf on the Shelf Carol V Aebersold / Author |
| 2 | The LEGO Ideas Book Daniel Lipkowitz / Author, Sebastiaan Arts / Contribution by, Tim Goddard / Contribution by, Deborah Higdon / Contribution by, Barney Main / Contribution by, Duncan Titmarsh / Contribution by |
| 3 | If You Give a Dog a Donut Laura Joffe Numeroff / Author, Felicia Bond / Illustrator |
| 4 | LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary Simon Beecroft / Author, Jeremy Beckett / Consultant |
| 5 | Llama Llama Holiday Drama Anna Dewdney / Author |
| 6 | Home for Christmas Jan Brett / Author |
| 1 | Hunger Games Suzanne Collins / Author |
| 2 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney / Author |
| 3 | Inheritance Cycle Christopher Paolini / Author |
| 4 | Magic Tree House Osborne, Mary Pope / |
| 5 | Witch & Wizard James Patterson & Ned Rust / |
| 6 | Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard / Author |
