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Call For Information
Feature: Illustrated Gift Books
Issue: Oct. 9
Deadline: September 26
Please let us know of highly illustrated gift books—on art & photography, sports, antiques, travel, fashion, furniture, science, history, nature, etc.—that are prime for the holiday gifting season. Send .pdfs or jpegs and info to mcoffey@publishersweekly.com; blads, galleys, finished copies to Michael Coffey, PW, 71 W. 23rd St., New York, N.Y. 10010.Vintage Reissuing Strayed's First Novel
Hoping to build on the success of her memoir, Wild, Vintage is reissuing a paperback edition of Cheryl Strayed's debut novel, Torch.
Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, September 21
Leaders from the book industry and the American Library Association gather next week in New York City. The Association of American Publishers has invited them to share perspectives on a growing controversy over e-book pricing. For the moment, as the diplomats might say, the dialogue is business-like. That could change, though, observes Andrew Albanese.
Google Paid $22 Million for Frommer’s; Wiley Gets New Wiley Board Member
In its recently released quarterly filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, John Wiley reported that it received “approximately $22 million in cash” from Google for its travel related properties that include Frommer’s, WhatsonWhen and Unofficial Guides.
ABFFE Postpones Online Auction
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) announced that it is postponing an online auction of original children’s art that had been scheduled to run through Banned Books Week (Sept. 30-Oct. 6).
PW Webcast on Tablet Strategy Today
PW senior editor of digital media Jonathan Segura hosts PW’s monthly webcast which will focus on how to develop tablet and mobile strategies.
Zola Books Begins Rollout of its E-tailing Site
Zola Books, the social, retail, and recommendation Web site that aims to bring everything about books to one place, launched with its social component on September 20.
'Infinite Jest' Sees Sales Bump Following DFW Biography
Since the publication on August 30 of D.T. Max's Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (Viking), sales of Wallace's most famous book, Infinite Jest, have steadily increased.
'No Easy Day' Keeps Number One Spot
In its second week, sales for No Easy Day fell 30% to 176,000 copies, according to the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan.
Rudin, Diller, Coady Partner for Brightline, Multiplatform Book Publisher
Entertainment media moguls Barry Diller, chairman of the IAC/InterActiveCorp, and film and theater producer Scott Rudin are teaming up to launch Brightline, a multiplatform publishing house, and bringing in former Vintage U.K. and Picador publisher Frances Coady to run it.
Open Road's Short Shots Grows
Richard Ellis, conservationist and author, will see two of his titles published at Short Shots, Open Road's series of titles that communicate an idea or tell a story in short form.
The Department of Justice E-Book Price-Fixing Case: All Our Coverage
Stay up to date with the Department of Justice e-book price-fixing suit with PW's extensive coverage. Here is an archive of our stories, following the case from the initial investigation to the settlement.
Distribution: Innovative Logistics Signs Two Presses
Innovative Logistics has signed agreements with Rare Art Press, London and Pepin Press, Amsterdam, for fulfillment services in North America.
Distribution: Simon & Schuster Signs Tuttle, Inner Traditions
Simon & Schuster has entered into agreements with Tuttle Publishing and Inner Traditions for the distribution and fulfillment in the U.S. of all frontlist and backlist titles. The agreement is effective January 1, 2013. Tuttle has done fulfillment for Inner Traditions.
Tracking Amazon: The Rise of High-Priced E-books
Though the publishing world waits to see how e-book pricing will be affected in the long-run by the DoJ's ruling, the current climate of higher-priced e-books is perhaps being overlooked: six of the 10 Kindle bestsellers are priced $9.99 or higher.
Salman Rushdie Writes Thank You to Indie Booksellers
Salman Rushdie's memoir Joseph Anton comes out September 18, and this week he's written a Thank You letter to independent booksellers for their support during the fatwa following the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1989.
Authors on the Air September 17, 2012: Richard E. Dauch, Hendrick Smith
Richard E. Dauch, author of American Drive: How Manufacturing Will Save Our Country (St. Martin’s Press, 978-1-250-01082-7), will appear on Fox & Friends, Tuesday, September 18.
Hedrick Smith will be on Tavis Talks for Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 978-1400069668).
Tracking Amazon: 'Hunger Games' Dropped To $1.57
The movie tie-in paperback edition of The Hunger Games was reduced to $1.57 and immediately went from #20 to #2 on Amazon's bestseller list--enough to jump the Fifty Shades books but not enough to jump No Easy Day. The regular paperback edition, selling for $5.84, is ranked #19.
News Briefs: Week of September 17, 2012
July Bookstore Sales Rise and more
Two Dollar Radio Starts Nonfiction Journal
Eric Obenauf, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Two Dollar Radio, the indie press headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, wants the seven-year-old company to publish more nonfiction, but he doesn’t want to produce more than the five or six titles—primarily fiction—that the publisher currently releases each year. His solution, beginning this fall, is to launch Frequencies, a 100-page biannual journal that will be dedicated to nonfiction. Frequencies, like Two Dollar Radio’s books, is being distributed by Consortium and retails for $10 per issue. The first issue, just released, has an 1,800-copy print run.
