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The New Press: 20 Years of Publishing ‘in the Public Interest’
Twenty years after it was founded by former Pantheon publisher Andre Schiffrin as a nonprofit publisher with a mission statement to publish “in the public interest,” the New Press is on something of a roll. The house has a new bestseller—Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow—spacious offices in SoHo, a $5 million annual budget, and a much-lauded intern program that continues to introduce a diverse selection of young people to careers in book publishing.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, March 16
From the bi-annual Public Library Association conference in Philadelphia, PW Senior Writer Andrew Albanese notes a strong turnout of PLA members, as well as a top-shelf slate of programs, including a stirring keynote address from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Leaver to Join Quarto, Thompson Up at Sterling
Sterling president Marcus Leaver is leaving the Barnes & Noble subsidiary to join the Quarto Group next month in the newly created position of COO.
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Consortium Adds Eight Companies to List
Consortium Book Sales and Distribution is adding eight publishers to their list of more than 100 client publishers this fall.
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Sigler to Publish YA Books Through Diversion Books
Scott Sigler will publish his Galactic Football League series as paperbacks through Diversion Books, the affiliate company of Waxman Literary Agency, where he is represented for his adult fiction by Byrd Leavell. Perseus will distribute the titles.
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Tracking Amazon: Preorders Dominate Top 10
For once, preorders are taking the spotlight in Amazon's rankings. As of the morning of March 14, Amazon's top 10 Movers & Shakers, the biggest sales gainers in the past 24 hours, saw eight preorders.
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Open Road Partners with Career Press
Open Road and Career Press have formed a digital partnership that will see more than 25 e-books published.
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Little, Brown Gives 200,000 Patterson Books to Armed Forces
Little, Brown and James Patterson are donating 200,000 copies of his books to the United States Armed Forces. The books will be distributed via Operation Gratitude with the help of George Scott of Books for Heroes and the Peerless Book Store of Alpharetta, Ga.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Fifty Shades' Fever
If you wanted a paperback copy of E L James's Fifty Shades of Grey, you'll have to wait until April 3 for Vintage's re-release. As of March 13, the book's stock has run out on Amazon.
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'True Blood Cookbook' Expected Fall 2012 from Chronicle Books
Chronicle Books and HBO will publish The True Blood Cookbook from series creator Alan Ball (with Karen Sommer Shallett and Marcelle Bienvenu), expected in fall 2012.
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Smashwords Reaches Agreement with PayPal
The last few weeks of talks seem to be nearing an end for Smashwords and PayPal, who, according to Smashwords Website, will "soon announce revised content policies" that Smashwords founder Mark Coker expects "will please the Smashwords community."
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Random House Launches Author Portal
Random House Author Portal launched March 12, an online resource that provides RH authors and illustrators with access to comprehensive sales, royalties, and subsidiary rights information.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Fifty Shades' Gets Seven Figures, Keeps Selling
Late last week, the New York Times reported Vintage Books paid seven figures for the rights to republish E L James's Fifty Shades trilogy, and all three titles are on the Amazon top 100 lists, for both print and Kindle.
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News Briefs: Week of March 12, 2012
Justice Department May Sue Apple, Five Major Houses, and more.
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Tech Focus Fuels Recorded Books Expansion
There are lots of words to describe sales conferences—“exciting” usually isn’t one of them. But that is exactly how CEO Rich Freese described Recorded Books recent sales conference, concluded last week in Scottsdale, Ariz., and this time the word might just fit. As the Public Library Association meeting kicks off this week in Philadelphia, Recorded Books hits the show floor having made significant progress toward an ambitious goal: with its OneClick Digital platform, rolled out late in 2011, the company has expanded from a large, well-regarded audiobook publisher to a “one-stop shopping” experience for audiobooks in the library market, as well as a digital aggregator and resource provider.
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Call for Information: April Features
Here is our monthly look ahead to what we have slated for features, this time for our April issues.
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Tracking Amazon: Kindle Prices Crush Print Prices
The average Kindle bestseller is considerably cheaper than the average print bestseller. The average price of the Kindle top five is $9.47 and the average print top five price is $14.25.
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McEvoy Group Acquires GMG Publishing Corp.
The McEvoy Group, whose book properties include Chronicle Books, Princeton Architectural Press, and becker&mayer!, has announced its acquisition of GMG Publishing Corp.
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Privacy Rights Orgs Get Behind Smashwords
A number of privacy rights organizations have signed a letter supporting Smashwords, as the company continues its talks with PayPal over possible censorship.
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