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FSG, ‘Scientific American’ Roll Out New Imprint
Since Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Scientific American, both Macmillan brands, announced in fall 2010 that they were joining forces, Amanda Moon, senior editor of what is being called the Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint, and Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina have been culling both of their resources to ready the publication of their first books. To generate buzz for the debut title, the May issue of Scientific American has an excerpt from What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz, which will be released May 22.
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Happy Workplace=Happy Workers
The economy may be rousing from its slumber, but it’s not yet fully awake. Job numbers are improving slowly: the U.S. Department of Labor reported that an anemic 115,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were added in April 2012. Unemployment hovers stubbornly around 8%, refusing to budge much. Logic would dictate that business is a buyer’s—that is, an employer’s—market these days.
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Callaway Digital Arts to Close New York Studio and Relocate to San Francisco
Callaway Digital Arts, an interactive developer for the iPad with offices in New York and San Francisco, is shutting down its New York offices and development studio and relocating all of its operations in San Francisco.
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Utah Court Narrows Minors Access Online Law
People cannot be prosecuted for posting content constitutionally protected for adults on generally-accessible websites, and are not required by law to label such content that they do post, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson held May 17.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, May 18
The family that is book publishing is preparing for another annual reunion – otherwise known as BookExpo America.
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Tracking Amazon: Amazon's Most Popular Topic is Food
There are a number of current event/nonfiction titles on Amazon's top 100 list, but the single most popular topic is food.
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Espresso Book Machine Agrees with Red Wheel/Weiser
Red Wheel/Weiser, the metaphysical and self-help book publisher, has joined On Demand Books’ growing Espresso Book Machine program (EBM), via arrangement with Lightning Source.
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Hay House Launches Blogger Site
Spiritual and self-help publisher Hay House has started a community-driven site for bloggers called BookNook.
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CreateSpace Offers Worldwide Distribution
Amazon’s self-publishing subsidiary CreateSpace announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use its publishing platform to distribute their books in Europe for free on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es and Amazon.it.
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Tracking Amazon: Big Names Dominate Kindle Singles
The names at the top of Amazon's Kindle Singles page are familiar to anyone who's looked at any bestseller list in the last few years, showing that well-known names like Baldacci and DeMille are publishing on the digital short platform, too, and that they may even have an advantage.
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‘Fifty Shades’ a Mother’s Day Hit
The week leading to Mother’s Day was a good one for print books in general and adult fiction in particular. Unit sales of fiction titles at the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan rose 20% in the week driven by sales of that new favorite Mother’s Day gift—one of the titles from E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy.
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Tracking Amazon: 'The Charge' Skyrockets to #2
On the morning of May 16, Brendon Burchard's The Charge: Activating the 10 Drives That Make You Feel Alive was ahead of every single book except for Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Sister Spit Books Becomes New Imprint of City Lights Publishers
San Francisco author and literary activist Michelle Tea has teamed up with City Lights Publishing to launch the Sister Spit imprint in September with Tea's Sister Spit: Writings, Rants, and Reminiscence.
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Banned 'Looking for Alaska' Gets Defense from Anti-Censorship Groups
John Green’s young adult novel Looking for Alaska once more became the target of censorship when it was recently banned from classrooms in Sumner County, Tenn.
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Distribution: INscribe Signs Eight New Deals
INscribe has announed a new slate of distribution deals with Harvest House Publishers, Wayne State University Presss, M-Y Books, Folio Literary Management, The Laura Dail Literary Agency, Mercury Ink, Publishing Consultants, and Oberon Books.
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Crown Hires Full-Time Brand Strategist
Kimberly Snead has been hired to fill the newly created role of director of brand strategy at Random House's Crown Publishing Group.
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Weinstein Books Rises, Again, With New Team
It might not have had as many lives as your average cat, but Weinstein Books has gone through more than a few reincarnations. The new team at Weinstein, which has Georgina Levitt as publishing director and Amanda Murray as editorial director, was announced in February, and the pair will release their first title, Bully (which is based on the Weinstein-produced documentary of the same name), in September.
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News Briefs: Week of May 14, 2012
HMH Redoing Debt and more
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Eamon Dolan Returns to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Eamon Dolan returned to HMH in May 2011 after moving to the Penguin Press in 2007. Since his return Dolan has immersed himself in preparing for the launch of his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, May 11
Authors’ representatives – otherwise known as literary agents – have done some writing on their own this week.
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