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Tracking Amazon: A New-Look Top 10
After more than a year of being dominated by Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey books, Amazon's top 10 bestsellers look, for the most part, new and different as of October 29, with no title exceeding 227 days in the top 100. The #1 book is Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, which has only spent 21 days in the top 100. Click through for the top 10.
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Makinson's Letter On Penguin-Random House Merger
Pearson chairman and CEO John Makinson sent the following letter about the merger of Random House and his company's trade publishing unit, Penguin Book Group:
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News Corp. Said to Ready Penguin Offer
The U.K.’s Sunday Times has reported that News Corp., parent company of HarperCollins, is preparing to make an offer to acquire Penguin Group.
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News Briefs: Week of October 29, 2012
Amazon’s Big Third-Quarter Loss and more
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Random Penguins?
Although a Random House/ Penguin Group merger is not a done deal yet, the fact that Penguin’s parent company, Pearson, issued a statement confirming that it is in negotiations with Random’s parent, Bertelsmann, about some sort of combination was more than enough to get the industry speculating about what such a move would mean for all parts of the industry.
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Downsized, Not Dead
In addition to Free Press coming under the new S&S Publishing Group, the restructuring moved Touchstone from the responsibility of Levin to the Scribner group under Susan Moldow, while the Atria Publishing group added Howard Books.
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Amazon Has Big Third Quarter Loss
Amazon posted a third quarter net loss of $274 million on a sales increase of 27%, to $13.8 billion.
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Consortium Signs Three Publishers for Digital Distribution
Consortium has announced three new Constellation (digital only) clients: CarTech, Inc., Sunrise River Press, and Adventure Publications.
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Penguin-Random House Merger Talks Ignite Twitter
When word broke that two of the biggest publishing houses might merge, the Twittersphere lit up with a barrage of snarky comments and panicked assessments of the possible future.
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Liveright Gets Excited About Poetry for 2013
While Norton's relaunched Liveright imprint under Bob Weil is mostly focused on nonfiction and edgy mainstream fiction, the imprint's director of publicity Peter Miller is working to build excitement around poetry for the upcoming season by building buzz around its first debut poet: Columbia MFA graduate Adam Fitzgerald.
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Four Debuts Crack the Top 10
For the week ending October 21 on Nielsen BookScan, the overall bestsellers chart looked very different: four of the top 10 titles were debuts.
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Amazon Introduces Japanese Kindle Store and Kindle Paperwhite
Amazon.co.jp has announced the Kindle Paperwhite is heading to Japan, shipping on November 19 and selling for ¥12,980.
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Self-Publishing Sees Triple-Digit Growth Since 2007
The number of self-published books produced annually in the U.S. has nearly tripled, growing 287% since 2006, with 235,625 print and e titles released in 2011, according to a new analysis of data from Bowker.
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S&S Reorganizes Adult Group; Levin to Leave Free Press
Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy has reorganized the company’s adult publishing imprints into four main groups, resulting in the departure of Free Press publisher Martha Levin.
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Tracking Amazon: Self-Pubbed Romance Sales Fall Following Penguin Sale
Samantha Young's On Dublin Street spent weeks atop Amazon's Kindle chart, which culminated in a seven-figure sale to Penguin earlier this month.
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Vancouver’s D&M Publishers Files for Bankruptcy Protection
D&M Publishers, one of Canada's largest independent houses, has filed for bankruptcy protection but will continue to operate while it restructures.
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Steve Smith Named Publisher of Oasis Audio
Steve Smith has been named the new publisher of Oasis Audio, following the resignation of Tammy Faxel.
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INscribe Expands Global Reach
INscribe Digital has announced new distribution deals with a number of international publishers.
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News Briefs: Week of October 22, 2012
Canadian Booksellers Vote on Merger and more
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Melville House Turns 10
In some ways, Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians are the prototypical independent publishers. Known for publishing highly regarded books, not to mention a few bestsellers, their small indie piress, Melville House, has just turned 10.
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