-
Distribution: Gardners Signs Rowman & Littlefield
In a deal signed Monday at the London Book Fair, the UK wholesaler Gardners Books will handle digital distribution of the e-books of the various imprints of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
-
Tracking Amazon: 'Casual Vacancy' Cracks Top 10
It won't be released until September 27, but J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy has already made its way into Amazon's top 10.
-
News Briefs: Week of April 16, 2012
Rowling’s New Book Revealed and more
-
Rebranding at Harvard Pays Off
In July 2011, when Harvard Business School changed the name of its book publishing operation to Harvard Business Review Press to match its strongest brand, the Harvard Business Review magazine, it wasn’t clear what kind of impact it might have.
-
Gooseberry Patch Freshens Up
Gooseberry Patch, originally founded in 1984 as a mail-order catalogue company selling old-fashioned, country-style products, began publishing cookbooks in 1992, but the Delaware, Ohio, company almost didn’t make it through the Great Recession. “Gooseberry Patch ran headlong into the economic downturn,” Brad Dunnington, the company’s CEO since December 2009, told PW. “That, in combination with the banking crisis, was a perfect storm.” Sales that had reached a high of $18 million–$20 million plummeted, making the future of the company founded by two stay-at-home mothers uncertain. In an effort to revive Gooseberry, in 2009 cofounders Vickie Hutchins and Jo Ann Martin entered into a partnership with Lazear Capital Partners, an Ohio merchant banking firm specializing in turning around ailing companies.
-
Weighing the Consequences
The government views its settlement with, and continuing litigation against, publishers and Apple over e-book pricing as a great victory for consumers. The overwhelming reaction in the book industry, however, is one of bewilderment, with many members believing that the government has no sense of how the book business really works or what the impact its actions will have long term.
-
Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, April 13
It was a momentous week, as the the US Dept. of Justice (DOJ) moved to sue Apple and five trade book houses for price-fixing on e-books, settling the charges with three publishers.
-
Amazon Publishing Releases Fall List
Amazon Publishing New York has announced its first list of books under the New Harvest imprint in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt catalog.
-
Little, Brown Releases Title, Pub Date of Rowling's Adult Novel
Little, Brown has announced that J.K. Rowling's forthcoming adult novel, which it recently acquired, will be called The Casual Vacancy. The Hachette imprint also said the book will be published, internationally in English, on September 27.
-
The Broad Strokes of the Hachette, HarperCollins and S&S Price-Fixing Settlement
Three publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have reached a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle federal claims of price fixing regarding e-books. PW takes an initial look at the broad strokes of the deal, and what it means for the settling publishers.
-
DoJ Files Antitrust Suit
The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group, HarperCollins, and Macmillan charging them with colluding to raise e-book prices when they moved from the wholesale model to the agency model.
-
Tracking Amazon: 'Reverse Innovation' Jumps in P, Flat in E
Amazon's top book in Movers & Shakers is Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble (Harvard Business Review Press), seeing a jump to #7 from #7,119 in the past 24 hours.
-
Scribner To Publish 'Call of Sedona' in July
Scribner will publish the independently-published New York Times bestseller The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart by Ilchi Lee.
-
State Library of Kansas to Partner with Bilbary to Enable E-Book Purchases
The state library of Kansas this week said that it will partner with upstart e-bookseller Bilbary to facilitate patrons wishing to buy e-books.
-
Tracking Amazon: 'Phantom Tollbooth' Sees Huge Spike
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer, originally published in 1961, is seeing a revival.
-
Morgan James Adds Fiction Imprint
Morgan James Publishing is entering the fiction market through an agreement with the independent publisher Koehler Books.
-
Call for Info for ‘PW Show Daily’
For PW Show Daily—a daily newspaper distributed at BookExpo America—please send information on your lead authors who will be at BEA to promote their books, particularly those who will be on panels, at breakfasts, luncheons, stages, and press conferences as well as autographings.
-
ttyl Series Tops List of Most Challenged Titles
The ALA has released its list of the top 10 most challenged books of 2011, along with its 2012 State of America's Library Report. Among the most challenged books are mainstays like Brave New World and To Kill a Mockingbird, as well as more recent books like The Hunger Games trilogy and Lauren Myracle's ttyl series.
-
Tracking Amazon: Why is Amazon Giving $1 Million to Small Presses and Lit Nonprofits?
Salon has an extensive look at Amazon's quiet support of small presses and lit-minded nonprofits, including the Brooklyn Book Festival, the PEN American Center, and Kenyon Review, among many others.
-
New Russo Collaboration is Print Only
In his new collection, which his daughter is calling "the anti-Kindle," Richard Russo collaborates with his daughters and son-in-law on illustrations, packaging, and even a book signing.
Browse archive by date:
