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
Coinciding with its 45th anniversary, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is now available as an e-book from all major retailers, priced at $9.99 for Kindle and Nook. The announcement was made May 15 by Don Weisberg, president, Penguin Young Readers Group.
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.
Tue, 15 May 2012
Robert Weil, editor-in-chief and publishing director of Liveright & Co., has acquired two new works by novelist Allan Gurganus, author of the acclaimed and bestselling 1989 novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.
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
Tracking Amazon: 'Wool' Jumps Following Film Deal
PW reported yesterday that self-published author Hugh Howey sold film rights to his sci-fi series Wool to 20th Century Fox. Immediately following the news, the omnibus (all the series' books in one), a perennial top 100 seller for Kindle, jumped from #85 to #23.
Karen Russell Wins NYPL's Young Lions Award
At a ceremony Monday night, Karen Russell won the New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award for Swamplandia! (Knopf).
Job Moves: May 15, 2012
At Algonquin Books, Debra Linn has been named online marketing manager. She was previously the events and marketing director at Books & Books.
| 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 |
Publishing news from across the Web
The Guardian: Modern authors are stylistically influenced by their contemporaries rather than writers from the 18th and 19th centuries, according to word-frequency study of classic literature.
The Guardian selects "War and Peace" and "Wolf Hall" among others.
Mike McGrady, author of "Naked Came the Stranger," has died at 78.
The additions are coming to the Seattle offices.
