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SiriusXM Launches 'Book Radio After Dark'
On July 15, SiriusXM launched "Book Radio After Dark" with Susie Bright.
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University of Missouri Press Reinvented
The University of Missouri announced Monday the reorganization of the University of Missouri Press, which, as of July 1, lost its funding.
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Tracking Amazon: Crime Novel Jumps Thanks to NPR
After appearing on NPR yesterday, Bruce DeSilva's debut novel (which won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best First Novel) Rogue Island jumped from #29,712 to #390. The book was first published by Forge in 2010.
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Princeton University Press Does Inaugural E-Original
On August 8, Princeton University Press will release its first e-book original, Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal by Brink Lindsey. The e-book will be priced at $4.99 for all major e-tailers. An expanded hardcover edition will be published in spring 2013.
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Working Partners Acquired by Coolabi
The Working Partners group – including Beast Quest Ltd and The Greenhouse Literary Agency – has been acquired by Jeremy Banks and Tim Ricketts, the management team who built Coolabi Ltd, with the support of Edge Performance VCT.
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Tracking Amazon: Riordan, Silva Lead Bestselling Preorders
There were seven preorder books on Amazon's top 100 as of the morning of July 16, a higher number than normal for the bestselling chart. The top preorder is also the preorder with one of the latest publication dates: Rick Riordan's The Mark of Athena .
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Kensington Does Digital Only with eKensington
Earlier this month, Kensington's new digital only imprint eKensington launched with its first two titles, Rebecca Zanetti's Consumed and Lindsey Brookes's Jimmie Joe Johnson: Manwhore--the beginning of the imprint's mission to publish both new works and classic titles from Kensington's extensive backlist.
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News Briefs: Week of July 16, 2012
HC Completes Nelson Deal and more
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Parragon Hones Its Global Publishing Strategy
A global publishing approach can take many forms. For Parragon Publishing, which started in the late 1980s as a conduit to get books into U.K. supermarket chains, the key is tailoring content that can roll out across borders in one fell swoop.
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Digital Imprints Take Root
Traditional trade publishers have been testing the digital-first/digital-only publishing waters for more than two years now, and the pace is accelerating. This month alone, Penguin is reviving the Dutton Guilt Edged Mysteries line as a digital only imprint, Kensington has launched eKensington as an e-book only imprint, F+W Media is moving its Crimson Romance e-book imprint from a beta test to full launch coinciding with the rollout of its newest e-book subscription site, this one for romance books, while HarperCollins’s Impulse imprint will double its output from one digital title per week to two this fall and will add William Morrow and Harper Voyager to the Impulse line, which began with Avon.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, July 13
When is a book not good for a bookstore? With the first New Harvest books coming out, booksellers are more committed than ever to not stocking them. Listen here.
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Tracking Amazon: Self-Published McGuire Gets Rereleased by Atria
Bestselling self-published romance author Jamie McGuire had signed a two-book deal with Atria, and her e-book Beautiful Disaster has reappeared on the Kindle bestseller list at #17.
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50 Shades Trilogy Sees Slower Sales
Though the three 50 Shades books and its box set still took the top four spots for the week ending July 8 by a huge margin, all four titles saw slower sales at the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan.
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Craft and Hobbies Webcast Set for July 17
PW reviews editor Marcia Nelson hosts an interactive discussion covering the trends in publishing and selection of crafts & hobbies books and materials.
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Hunter Down, Anthony Up for BenBella
After a week’s stay on the bestsellers list, Rielle Hunter’s What Really Happened saw sales fall by two-thirds in its second full week on sale. Publisher BenBella Books, however, can take heart in another new title, Presumed Guilty: Casey Anthony: The Inside Story, which landed in the 19th spot in its first week on sale.
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DIY Women's Press Launches
She Writes, an online social network of women writers all over the world, celebrated its third anniversary last week by launching She Writes Press, a DIY imprint that will specialize in publishing work in all genres by women.
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Cover Revealed for 'Halo: Silentium'
Tor Books has released the cover of the final installment to its massively popular Halo Forerunner Saga series. The novel, titled Halo: Silentium, is written by Greg Bear and will be released in hardcover on January 8, 2013, with simultaneous audio and e-book editions.
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Tracking Amazon: Top Bestsellers Average One Year on Chart
As of July 11, the top 20 bestselling Amazon titles, buoyed by mainstays like the 50 Shades books and the Hunger Games trilogy, have an average of 353 days on the bestseller list.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Happiness Project' Author's Next Book Jumps in Preorders
Gretchen Rubin, author of the bestselling The Happiness Project, will see her new book, Happier at Home, published September 4 by Crown Archetype.
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FSG Changes Distribution Arrangements in Canada
Farrar, Straus and Giroux has announced that in Canada, effective January 2013, the FSG list and Graywolf titles will be sold to independent and college bookstores, Costco.ca, library wholesalers, and special markets accounts by Raincoast Book Distribution. All other Canadian trade accounts will be handled directly by Macmillan.
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