Tue, 22 May 2012
Six weeks after Random House took over the publication, and distribution of E.L. James's Fifty Shades trilogy, the publisher reports that the series has sold over 10 million copies in print and digital.
Tue, 22 May 2012
Cartoon Network has licensed Penguin Young Readers Group for books tied to its series Adventure Time, starring Finn the Human and Jake the Dog. The show is in its fourth season and is the #1 television program on Mondays for children 6-11.
Tue, 22 May 2012
Kepler’s 2020 project announced a fundraising goal of $250,000 by June 15 to keep the iconic Silicon Valley bookstore open and continue to reinvent it.
Tue, 22 May 2012
The U.S. Government Printing Office is extending the reach of its Federal e-books program through a partnership with Barnes & Noble to sell its books for the Nook eReader
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This week's print issue of PW
This week, we talk to authors including Lars Kepler, check out a new imprint at FSG, present a religious publishing update, and more.
PW's Week Ahead Podcast, Friday May 18, 2012
This week, special guests Tina Jordan, Vice President for the Association of American Publishers, and Nora Rawlinson, founder and editor of EarlyWord.com, join CCC’s Chris Kenneally with Publishers Weekly’s Andrew Albanese to learn what librarians will get from BEA in 2012, and what BEA gets from having them there.
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The Black Isle by Sandi Tan
Job Moves: May 22, 2012
Jody LeHeup has been named associate editor at Valiant. He was formerly an editor at Marvel.
Authors on the Air May 22, 2012: Billy Bob Thornton, Thomas J. Foley
Billy Bob Thornton, author of The Billy Bob Tapes (William Morrow, 978-0062101778), will be on Tavis Talks.
Thomas J. Foley, author of Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, The Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected (Touchstone, 978-1451663914) will be on "The Lowdown with Ira Wood" on Tuesday May 22 at 12:30 - 1:00 PM, on WOMR-FM, Cape Cod, streaming live at www.womr.org.
| 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 |
Publishing news from across the Web
James Salter has won the 2012 PEN/Malamud Award, an honor in its 25th year that highlights excellence in short fiction.
The Times looks at the quandary libraries are in, as they debate whether or not to stock E.L. James's oft-requested erotic novel.
Edgartown Books, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, is set to reopen, under its new ownership, on Friday.
Orange, the British telecommunications company that has sponsored one of England's main fiction prizes for women, the Orange fiction prize, has pulled its financial support of the award.
