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Bancroft Press Switches Focus to Memoirs
Bancroft Press will shift its focus from fiction to memoirs, beginning in 2012 and 2013.
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News Briefs: Week of April 2, 2012
Book Stall Named Bookstore of The Year; Kingman & Kindness Top Reps and more
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Moving Beyond Self-Publishing
John Locke found fame as the first self-published author to sell one million Kindle e-books.
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Aquafadas: Easy to Build Interactive Apps
Aquafadas, a French digital publishing company, has launched a platform that allows publishers to build multimedia apps for children’s books, comics, magazines, and newspapers. Using Aquafadas’s Ave AppFactory desktop application and Adobe InDesign, publishers can produce apps that offer a variety of multimedia and interactive content without hiring a programmer.
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How 200,000 Books Were Given to U.S. Troops
Moving 200,000 books isn’t an easy task, but through the goodwill and team work of several organizations, that’s exactly what happened in an unprecedented donation of James Patterson’s own books to the United States Armed Forces.
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Earnings, Margins Rise at Random
Although worldwide sales at Random House fell 4.3% in 2011, the company posted its highest earnings and operating margins in at least five years. EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) rose 6.9%, to 185 million euros, with an operating margin of 10.6%, a full percentage point higher than 2010. Between 2007 and 2011, sales on a reported basis fell 4.8%, while operating EBIT jumped 35.0%. Cost cutting, including consolidating office space in Random’s New York headquarters, and lower returns due to higher e-book sales contributed to the higher profits in 2011. The sales decline was due to a combination of the negative impact of foreign exchange and a decline in print sales.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, March 30
Magic wand and e-reader in hand, Harry Potter returned to the spotlight on the publishing industry stage this week.
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Tracking Amazon: New Vonnegut E-book Takes #1 Spot
Basic Training, the novella written by Kurt Vonnegut in the late 1940s when he was still in the publicity department at General Electric, has taken the #1 spot on Amazon's Kindle Single chart.
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Publishing Veteran Dave Hohman Aquires Iconografix
Publishing industry veteran Dave Hohman has acquired Iconografix, a wholesaler and specialist publisher focused on titles about cars, trucks, heavy equipment and railroads, based in Hudson, Wis.
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BISG and Bowker To Reveal Global E-book Market Results in Webcast
On April 2, BISG and Bowker Market Research will reveal results from the first ever Global eBook Monitor (GeM) Report.
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F+W Starting E-book Subscription Sites
F+W Media is launching a series of e-book subscription sites aimed at enthusiasts in particular niches beginning with the Artist’s Network eBooks Book Club. The art community subscription site, http://ebooks.artistsnetwork.com, features more than 100 full-color art instruction titles.
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'Don't Be Bot-Like': How to Blend Books and Social Media
A panel presented by the Women's National Book Association focused on how publishers and authors can best utilize their social media presence.
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Hunger Games Crosses 36 Million Copies in Print
Scholastic has released updated in-print figures for The Hunger Games trilogy in the U.S.: there are 17.5 million copies of The Hunger Games, 10 million copies of Catching Fire, and 9 million copies of Mockingjay. Between the three books, there are over 36.5 million copies in the U.S.
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Bowker Merges Research Units
Bowker has merged the U.S.-based PubTrack Consumer brand with U.K.-based Book Marketing Limited (BML) under a new global brand named Bowker Market Research.
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RHPS Begins Workshop Series for Clients
Random House Publisher Services announced the launch of RHPS Ideas Exchange, an ongoing series of workshops and seminars for client publishers.
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Tracking Amazon: Richard Scarry Books See Spike
Three of Richard Scarry's books made leaps into Amazon's top 100: Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever! (#1,240 to #80), Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town (#1,056 to #98), and Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (#279 to #54).
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Christopher Robbins Launches Familius Digital Publishing
Publishing veteran Christopher Robbins has started Familius, a digital publishing company based in Salt Lake City.
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Titanic Centennial Marked by 98 New Books
According to Bowker's Books In Print, 98 books (in print and e-books) on the Titanic have been brought to market in 2012 in anticipation of the disaster's April centennial.
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Earnings Rise at Random House
Despite a 4.3% decline in revenue, EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) rose 6.9% at Random House in 2011, parent company Bertelsmann reported this morning.
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Print Sales Held Up in January
Fears that a surge in sales of new digital reading devices over the holidays would result in plunging print trade sales in January proved unfounded, according to AAP’s newly revised monthly sales report.
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