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Canadian National Reading Campaign Prepares for Fall Launch
A national campaign to promote reading is launching in Canada, starting with cross-country multimedia advertising this fall.
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News Briefs: Week of July 9, 2012
Cengage to Name CEO and more
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Spreecast: Real-Time Video Chat Made Easy
Launched in 2010 by founder and CEO Jeff Fluhr, Spreecast is a social media–enabled video platform that allows anyone to set up a video conference session that can reach an unlimited number of people. The startup service is an easy-to-use browser-based application that works for a one-on-one video interaction, like Skype, Facetime, or Google Hangout, but it can also do much more, including broadcast real-time video to an audience of unlimited size while maintaining face-to-face interactive communications with four people on camera, according to Colin Evans, Spreecast v-p of content and business development.
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The Agent as (Sort of) Publisher
While there has been some grumbling in the industry about the ethics and logistics when literary agents start acting as publishers, many firms are now offering a suite of services in this area. Only a handful of agencies are actually publishing titles by their clients through in-house divisions, with more offering publishing services to clients who (usually) can’t land an offer from a traditional house. The one consistency:many of the agents working in this arena say what they’re doing is not “publishing.”
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Palgrave Pivot Set for October Launch
Palgrave Pivot will launch on October 30 with over 20 titles.
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Hunter's 'What Really Happened' Lands at Number 12
After it first week on sale, Rielle Hunter’s What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me sold 5,795 copies at the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan.
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Tracking Amazon: Batman Titles Rise
Though The Dark Knight Rises doesn't hit theaters until July 20, books starring the Caped Crusader are already making waves on Amazon's bestseller list.
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New Heads for Scholastic UK; Storia Adds National Geographic
Scholastic has appointed Catherine Bell and Steve Thompson to be co-managing directors of Scholastic UK. In the U.S., a line of nonfiction titles from National Geographic for Kids will be available through Scholastic's Storia e-reading app in August.
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J.K. Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' Cover Reveal
The Casual Vacancy, publishing worldwide in English on September 27, has a confirmed page count of 512 pages and a release from Little, Brown called it "a big novel about a small town."
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Call for Information: Fall 2012 On-Sale Calendar
Needed: We're looking for information about your biggest titles to be published from September 1 through December 31, 2012, to be included in our on-sale calendar, an ongoing feature on our Web site.
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BISG Changes Offices
As of July 18, 2012, BISG will relocate to 145 W 45th Street, Suite 601, New York, NY 10036. Contact info@bisg.org or 646-336-7141 for questions.
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Tracking Amazon: Terry Goodkind's Self-Published Novel Skyrockets
Bestselling fantasy author Terry Goodkind is self-publishing his latest novel, The First Confessor, which is already #28 on the Kindle bestseller list as of the morning of July 3.
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Chelsea Green Goes Employee Owned
Last Friday employees at Chelsea Green Publishing in White River Junction, Vt., celebrated a change in ownership; they now own close to 80% of the stock.
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Authors on the Air July 2, 2012: Glenn Greenwald, Ellie Kay, Eddie and Tamara George
Glenn Greenwald, author of With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality (Picador, 978-1250013835), will be on "The Brian Lehrer Show" and "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" on July 2. On July 3, he will be on "Morning Joe" and "Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer."
Ellie Kay, author of Heroes at Home: Help and Hope for America's Military Families (Bethany House, 0764205595) will be on Moody's "Midday Connection."
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Tracking Amazon: Essayist Jumps After NY Times 'Busy' Column
Tim Kreider, author of PW Pick We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons, has seen his book jump over 2,000% following his "Opinionator" blog post for the New York Times on June 30.
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Lulu Gives Authors Free Custom Publishing Advice
Lulu has announced the launch of the Lulu.com Publishing Advisor, a new tool designed to give authors of all backgrounds and levels of experience customized publishing recommendations for their books for free.
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New Press to Publish Books on Eastern Bloc
New Europe Books, the first press dedicated to books about the former Eastern Bloc, debuts next month with Sándor Szathmári’s 1941 dystopian classic, Voyage to Kazohinia (July), which Hungarians regard as their Gulliver’s Travels or Brave New World.
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News Briefs: Week of June 29, 2012
Amazon Bids On Dorchester and more
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, June 29
In Anaheim this week, the gathered members of the American Library Association conference heard why libraries may be more important than ever, even in the throes of the digital publishing revolution. Listen here.
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Tracking Amazon: New Wheel of Time Book Sees Preorders Six Months in Advance
It won't be published until January 2013, but Tor's A Memory of Light is already selling copies--landing at #224 on Amazon's bestseller list as of June 29. The book, listed at 864 pages, is the 14th and final book in the Wheel of Time series, which has sold well over 44 million copies since Robert Jordan started the series in 1990.
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