Tue, 15 May 2012
Following yesterday's announcement that Kimberly Snead will fill the new role of director of brand strategy at Crown, the publisher has announced May 15 that Leigh Ann Ambrosi will join as v-p, brand publishing project director, reporting to Tina Constable.
Tue, 15 May 2012
John Green’s young adult novel Looking for Alaska once more became the target of censorship when it was recently banned from classrooms in Sumner County, Tenn.
Wed, 16 May 2012
Bookmasters is making its distribution clients’ more than 50,000 POD titles available through the EBM “digital-to-print at retail” sales channel.
Wed, 16 May 2012
San Francisco author and literary activist Michelle Tea has teamed up with City Lights Publishing to launch the Sister Spit imprint in September with Tea's Sister Spit: Writings, Rants, and Reminiscence.
Thomas Nelson, Inc. is seeking a Marketing Director, Fiction. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone.
This week's print issue of PW
This week is (almost) all about audiobooks, plus we talk to authors including Michael Showalter and Peter Lovesay. Plus, we look at the return of Weinstein books.
PW's Week Ahead Podcast, Friday May 11, 2012
This week, we discuss the missive the board of the Association of Authors’ Representatives (AAR) wrote to the US Department of Justice expressing its opposition to a proposed settlement with three publishers over alleged e-book price fixing, as well as the best upcoming books.
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The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit by Emma Thompson, illus. by Eleanor Taylor
Gale and Wolper Sign Distribution Agreement
Gale and Wolper Information Services have partnered to distribute Gale subscription products and major reference works in print and electronic form into the special library market.
Tracking Amazon: 'The Charge' Skyrockets to #2
On the morning of May 16, Brendon Burchard's The Charge: Activating the 10 Drives That Make You Feel Alive was ahead of every single book except for Fifty Shades of Grey.
Job Moves: May 16, 2012
Jenny Frost has joined Scholastic as ePublisher and senior v-p eBook strategy. Frost, a long-time Random House executive, left that company in 2008.
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Chomp | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
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The Grand Rapids, Mich. bookstore will close after five years of business.
A Spring Hill, Tenn. bookstore has upset blogger Nancy French.
