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Soho Press Pushes Forward Under Hruska
Soho Press, an independent publisher with a full-time staff of nine, is made up of a band of fiercely loyal book lovers. The press was taken over by publisher Bronwen Hruska in 2010.Juliet Grames, Soho’s senior editor, said, about working with her: “For our first 25 years we were a quality literary house that got great reviews, but which people hadn’t heard of. You absolutely can’t say that anymore.” Pointing to Soho’s increasing numbers, Grames added, “Our revenue has ballooned since [Hruska] started—our books are sold in channels we never imagined before. Her tenure here has seen more bestsellers than the rest of Soho’s history put together.”
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Self-Published Book Back in Print after 126 Years
Princeton Architectural Press will publish America’s Other Audubon, which includes 68 lithographs and field notes from Genevieve Jones’s 1886 self-published book.
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Tracking Amazon: Mantel's Wolf Hall Books Rise
Holt's May 8 publication of Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to 2009's Booker-winning Wolf Hall, is not only selling well in the days leading up to its release, it's also drumming up interest in its predecessor.
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Random House of Canada Launches New Lifestyle Imprint
Robert McCullough, publisher of Random House of Canada's new lifestyle imprint Appetite--which will publish and track trends in food, wine, health and design--has something in his office that no one else in the company has: a view of the mountains of Vancouver.
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Author Tosca Reno Steps In as President of Robert Kennedy Publishing
Fitness author Tosca Reno pays tribute to her late husband Robert Kennedy as she begins work as president and CEO of his magazine and book publishing company.
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Yale Publishing 10-Volume Series on Jewish Culture
Yale University Press has unveiled a new collection called The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, a 10-volume series that brings together over 3,000 years of Jewish artifacts, texts, and other art forms.
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Bywater Books Names Karlsberg Publisher
Bywater Books, a lesbian press that also reissues British mysteries for the U.S. market, named Michele Karlsberg its new publisher.
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Reminder to Publishers: PW Fall Announcements
The deadline (May 14) for entering your fall titles is fast approaching.
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Commerce Dept. To Hold Podcast on Russian Publishing
The U.S. Commerce Department’s global publishing team will hold a May 24 webinar that will bring together experts to discuss opportunities in the Russia publishing market.
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Workman Launches Speakers Bureau
Looking to give its authors a boost on the press circuit, Workman Publishing has launched an in-house Speakers Bureau.
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Tracking Amazon: Caro's Lyndon Johnson Biography Cracks Top 10
The Passage of Power, the fourth book in Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson series, published May 1 by Knopf, is #8 on the Amazon bestseller list and #51 on the Kindle bestseller list, as of the morning of May 1.
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Llewellyn Launches 'eShorts' Program
Llewellyn Worldwide has launched short, original e-books in its "eShorts" program. eShorts will feature nonfiction titles covering a specific subject in less than 30 pages, and will retail for $1.99.
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Scholastic Raises Earnings Guidance
Based on much strong than anticipated sale of its Hunger Games trilogy following the release of the movie, Scholastic has raised it earnings guidance for the fiscal year ending May 31, 2012, to $3.40 per share from previous guidance of $2.60 to $2.90 per share.
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Tracking Amazon: Average E Bestseller Lags Behind P
Using the top 20 bestsellers on both the physical and Kindle bestseller lists, the average stay for a title on the lists is 155 days on Kindle and 196 days on the physical.
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News Briefs: Week of April 30, 2012
Amazon’s Big First Quarter and more
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A Knockout Start For Lookout Books
Emily Smith, executive director of Lookout Books, has been in and out of the office more in the past few months than she has been in years, thanks to the success of her imprint’s very first release, a collection of new and previously published work from a 75-year-old master of the short story, best known by other short story writers. When PW first reported on Lookout at its inception in January 2011 (PW, Jan. 17, 2011), Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision looked like a sleeper hit in the making; since then, it’s won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Malamud, and made it to the finals in at least four other contests, including the National Book Award for fiction.
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Haymarket Books Rises Up
Haymarket Books, the book publishing arm of Chicago’s progressive Center for Economic Research and Social Change, has enjoyed a 43% spike in sales this year, driven by a hot title and the Occupy movement.
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Will There Be A ‘Fifty Shades’ Afterglow?
Those who work in publishing—and especially those who write books—are no strangers to jealousy. Why does one title become a bestseller when another doesn’t? That sentiment has certainly bubbled up around E.L. James’s Fifty Shades trilogy. While some romance editors and authors say they don’t appreciate the mainstream media’s assertion that the erotic series is something new—the genre (as well as splintering subgenres) has been popular for well over a decade—many are acknowledging that James’s books may present an opportunity to draw more readers to romance titles, new and old.
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The Pinterest Experiment
The world of social media is an increasingly fickle place, and no social media site has gotten more recent hype or questions than Pinterest. Promising signs: it has grown from 3.3 million users in October 2011 to 19 million users in March 2012; it is now the third largest social media network behind Facebook and Twitter, passing LinkedIn (86 million visits in March) with its 104 million visits the same month; in April, Forbes estimated the company was worth $7.7 billion. But recently, the media have started to use the word “bubble,” pointing to the slowed growth in March, and figures that show active users actually dropped off in April.
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New Day at Archie Comics, Despite Internal Strife
Archie Comics Publications, the home of the iconic American red-headed teenager and his Riverdale High School buddies, is reshaping its longstanding brand and revitalizing its publishing program. In recent years Archie Comics has implemented a combination of new publishing formats and provocative new content aimed at keeping the classic Archie brand youthful and relevant to a new generation of Archie fans.
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