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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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Amazon and Texas Reach Sales Tax Agreement
Texas comptroller of public accounts Susan Combs and Amazon announced an agreement that will end the dispute over what Texas said was $269 million in uncollected sales tax.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, April 27
A major publisher moves to kill DRM (Digital Rights Management). It's more good news for e-book consumers, but in corners of the publishing industry, fears persist. Will holding on save the business? -- or sink it?
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Still Calling 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.
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Tracking Amazon: Stephen King's Kindle Single Leaps To #4
It's been quite a week for the King family--on April 24, the latest Dark Tower novel, The Wind Through the Keyhole was published and as of April 27 sits at #9 in hardcover and #21 for Kindle.
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Fifty Shades of Success
Fifty Shades of Grey remained the top fiction seller in the country last week, according to Nielsen BookScan, but the two sequels in the trilogy got off to a hot start of their own.
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Kundera Gets Downloadable Audio Books from HarperAudio
Fifteen titles by Milan Kundera will be released as digital download audio books throughout 2012, beginning with The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting on May 15. Richmond Hoxie will narrate the fiction titles and Graeme Malcolm will narrate the nonfiction. The titles will only be available as downloads.
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Tracking Amazon: Kindle Bestsellers are 85% Fiction
As of the morning of April 26, only 15 nonfiction titles made the Kindle top 100. Of these books, only three did not also appear on Amazon's print top 100 (Heroes and Monsters by Josh James Riebock; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer; and A Night to Remember by Walter Lord).
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