Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Callaway Digital Arts announced that Lisa Holton, founder of children’s digital media producer Fourth Story Media and former president of Scholastic trade publishing, has been named v-p of content development.
Tue, 21 Feb 2012
In what’s starting to seem like a trend for long-established bookstores, 36-year-old That Bookstore in Blytheville, Ark., is for sale.
Tue, 21 Feb 2012
With sales in both its co-edition and publishing divisions showing gains, revenue at Quarto Group rose 5.5% in 2011 to $186.1 million. Adjusted pretax profits rose to $12.1 million from $11.5 million.
Baker & Taylor is looking for a Northeast Territory Manager. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone.
Lucky Bastard by S.G. Browne
This week's print issue of PW
It's our annual spring children's announcements issue, with listings of upcoming books, plus features on the state of sales reps, kids and e-books and more.
PW's Week Ahead Podcast: 2/17/12
In this episode of PW's Week Ahead, produced in collaboration with Copyright Clearance Center as part of its Beyond the Book Series, PW's editors discuss the ToC conference and upcoming books.
E-book Reading 10% of Canada's National Book Count
Canada's second National Book Count shows e-books at 10% of a healthy reading culture.
Web Comic Raises $1.25M on Kickstarter
Cartoonist Rich Burlew set out to raise $57,500 on Kickstarter to reprint a book collection of his web comic, Order of the Stick. By the time the Kickstarter campaign was done, he had managed to raise $1.2 million.
S&S Children's Makes Shifts in Marketing
The following moves were made at Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing: Lucille Rettino has been promoted to v-p, director of marketing. Elke Villa has been named associate marketing director.
| Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) | Children's Fiction |
| Elf on the Shelf | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Private: #1 Suspect | Hardcover Fiction |
| Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Mass Market Paper |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Trade Paper |
Publishing news from across the Web
"Rosset published writers other presses passed up because the were too far out, too experimental, or violated the prevailing mores of the day."
Paramount is claiming that 2006's "The Godfather's Revenge" "tarnished" the legacy of "The Godfather."
From PCWorld: "With SWF, developers get full control over implementing processing steps and coordinating the tasks that drive them, without worrying about underlying complexities such as tracking their progress and keeping their state."
The nominees for the sci-fi/fantasy writing awards have been revealed.
