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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, January 27
Returning from ALA’s midwinter meeting, which included the annual presentations of the Caldecott and Newbery prizes, PW’s Features Editor Andrew Albanese notes the number of issues facing libraries these days —from budget stress and complex technology, to copyright and legislative issues.
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Red Wheel/Weiser Enters Self Publishing with Turning Stone Press
Red Wheel/Weiser Conari Press, in collaboration with Hampton Roads and Hierophant Publishing, are entering the self-publishing market for spiritual and self-help authors, forming Turning Stone Press.
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Tracking Amazon: Arguing with Obama Propels Brewer's Sales
The day after Governor Jan Brewer was photographed waving her finger in President Obama's face on the tarmac of the Phoenix airport, her book Scorpions for Breakfast moved to #21 on Amazon's bestseller list.
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BookBrunch Adds New Management
BookBrunch, the U.K. daily e-mail and Web site that provides news and views from the U.K. book industry, has named Eric Green CEO and Cortina Butler interim managing director. Liz Thomson and Nicholas Clee, who cofounded BookBrunch four years ago, remain joint editors.
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Feeding Your Brain Junk: Q&A with Clay Johnson, Author of 'The Information Diet'
Clay Johnson talks to PW about the dangers of processed information, and what we can do to be smarter about information consumption.
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Skyhorse Sued Over Raymond Carver Book
Tess Gallagher, the wife of late author Raymond Carver, filed a copyright suit last Friday against Skyhorse Publishing over the book Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver. The suit claims the book has unauthorized excerpts and photos.
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HMH in Deal with Amazon for Adult Titles
Amazon Publishing has reached a licensing agreement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for HMH to publish and distribute all adult titles from Amazon Publishing’s New York office under New Harvest, a new HMH imprint.
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Sourcebooks Debuts Its New Agile Publishing Model
Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks publisher, announced this morning at the Digital Book World conference that the Chicagoland publishing company is speeding up the publishing process for select nonfiction titles and other content written by experts by creating an Agile Publishing Model.
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Q&A with Jimmy Carter: Around the World and Through the Bible
Former President Jimmy Carter has two books from Zondervan: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President (Jan.) and NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter (Mar.).
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PubWest Adds Members
PubWest has announced the addition of three publisher members and two associate members, all located in Arizona.
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Ingram and Better World Books Launch Library Return Program
Through a new program developed by Ingram and Better World Books, libraries can turn old materials into new sources of acquisition money.
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NBC News Forms Publishing Division
NBC News has announced that it has formed NBC Publishing to to create their own digital books and has hired two publishing veterans to lead its new efforts: Peter Costanz and Brian Perrin.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Entrepreneurial Thinking' Tops Bestseller Chart
The number one book on Amazon's bestseller list, topping the three Hunger Games books is The 4 Essentials of Entrepreneurial Thinking: What Successful People Didn't Learn in School (Greenleaf, 978-0615450551) by Cliff Michaels.
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Wi7 Booksellers Get Sneak Preview of Orson & Co.'s Literary App
Booksellers attending Wi7 had mixed reactions to a sneak preview of Orson & Co.'s new literary app, which will be released this spring.
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Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Award Contest Opens for Submissions
Amazon and Penguin have opened submissions for the fifth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, which gives two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for young adult fiction.
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Amended Price Fixing Complaint Ramps Up Pressure on Publishers, Apple
In an amended complaint filed January 20, Hagens Berman, the law firm chosen in December to consolidate the class action lawsuits charging that Apple and major publishers conspired to fix e-book prices, detailed its take on how Apple and five publishers worked together to raise e-book prices.
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News Briefs: Week of January 23, 2012
Grand Central to Launch Digital Imprint and more.
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African-American Indie Bookstores: Hanging Tough
In business for a total of 122 years, four well-known African-American–owned bookstores—Eso Won (22 years); Hue-Man (10 years); Marcus Book Stores (52 years); and the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore (37 years)—are no strangers to economic ups and downs.
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