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News Briefs: Week of September 10, 2012
Amazon Reveals New Kindle Tablets and more
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Weldon Owen Adds Publishing To Its Packaging Credentials
It’s been six years since the privately held Swedish media company Bonnier acquired Weldon Owen, the San Francisco company known for its packaging program built for retail clients as diverse as Williams-Sonoma and Hallmark. In that time, said Terry Newell, CEO and president of Weldon Owen—now the American subsidiary of its parent—the internal energy and changes have made it feel like being part of a “25-year-old startup.”
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Amazon Launches Ian Fleming's Bond Store
Amazon Publishing has announced the store launch for “Ian Fleming’s James Bond” and the pre-order availability of new editions of Ian Fleming’s 14 original James Bond novels, which will publish on October 16, 2012.
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Tracking Amazon: Five Preorders Dominate Bestseller List
On the morning of September 7, five preorder books made it into Amazon's top 20 bestselling books.
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Avon Launches New User-Generated Website
Avon has lauched AvonRomance.com, a romance community Website that aggregates online content, spotlighting an array of user-generated posts and commentary.
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St. Martin's Press Partners with CoverCake
CoverCake's platform provides analytics on book trends, conversation detail, category data and key influencers.
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Marilyn Ducksworth Files Age Discrimination Suit Against Penguin
Marilyn Ducksworth, longtime director of corporate communications for Penguin Group USA, has filed an age discrimination lawsuit against her former employer in New York Supreme Court.
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Film Exec Joining Hyperion In New West Coast Post
Laura Hopper is joining Hyperion in the newly created position of editorial director of franchise publishing.
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HarperCollins Launches Mystery Line Bourbon Street Books
HarperCollins has launched a new line of paperback mystery novels under the banner of Bourbon Street Books.
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'Paterno' Sales Drop
After debuting at #1 on the adult frontlist nonfiction bestseller list, Joe Posnanski's Paterno has slipped to #7 in its second week, according to Nielsen BookScan.
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Tracking Amazon: Albom Books Rise in Kindle Deal
To mark the release of Mitch Albom's newest book, The Time Keeper (Hyperion), Amazon packaged two of his previous books together for $1.99 on September 4.
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Education Publishers, Distributors Settle Claims Over Counterfeit Textbooks
Four major educational publishers have settled claims with five distributors involving the sale of counterfeit textbooks. Cengage Learning, John Wiley and Sons, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill report that the five separate settlements call for “the combined payment of more than $2.6 million dollars and agreements not to engage in any infringement going forward.”
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Tracking Amazon: 'No Easy Day' Preorders Alone Make It a 2012 Bestseller
On September 4, the day of its publication, No Easy Day by Mark Owen is already the #31 bestselling book of 2012 on Amazon.
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News Briefs: Week of September 3, 2012
ABA/Kobo Partner and more
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Do Mass Market Originals Still Work?
Despite shrinking sales, declining shelf space, and the rise in popularity of relatively inexpensive e-book editions, mass market paperback is still a category that can be used to break out an author—especially in tandem with other publishing formats. A number of publishers contacted by PW said despite the category’s decline, mass market pricing combined with savvy marketing in the right genres—among them romance, westerns, paranormal, and crime/thrillers—can still lift an author’s sales, significantly.
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Navy SEAL's Lawyers Respond to Pentagon's Threat
Mark Owen's lawyers have responded to the Pentagon's threats of legal action over the information in No Easy Day.
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Neil Armstrong Biography Goes Back to Press
As a public figure that largely turned away from the public spotlight during his lifetime, Neil Armstrong has a relatively low number of biographies (he never wrote an autobiography).
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Wiley Joins Open Access Group
In another sign of the shift to open access publishing, Wiley has announced its membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), a global organization representing the interests of open access journal publishers.
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