Facts & Figures: Deadline Extended, New Threshold for Adult E-books
Feb 17, 2012
Feb 17, 2012
For our March 19 issue, in which we compile 2011 book sales figures from publishers in hardcover, paperback, and e-books, we are extending the deadline for submissions to Feb. 22 and also upping the threshold for adult e-books to 25,000, from 10,000. The threshold of children’s and YA titles remains 10,000 for e-books.
Complete details for submitting adult figures can be found here; complete details for children’s submissions can be found here.
If you have any questions, please contact Daisy Maryles for adult at dmaryles@publishersweekly.com and Diane Roback at roback@publishersweekly.com.
The Roundup for Publisher News
Publishing news from across the Web
In an open letter to the DoJ published on Digital Book World, agent Simon Lipskar says the government has "a fatally flawed understanding of the economics and history of the emerging e-book industry."
The publisher has reduced the retail prices of e-books to the level of the paperback equivalents of about 2,000 literary titles published in hardback.
Inside University of Nebraska's Bison Books, which publishes four to eight hardcore baseball books per year.
The publisher is trying to handle its debt load.
Top Bestsellers
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Serpent's Shadow | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
