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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, April 6
Surveys and polls are in the news, not on the presidential campaign, but on the rise of e-books in the US and the rest of the world.
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Tracking Amazon: Kennedy Book Rises Amid Press Coverage
The book is #9 on the bestseller list and #13 on the Kindle bestseller list. It has already received coverage from USA Today, MSNBC, CNN, and many others.
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New Digital-First Publisher Astor + Blue Editions To Debut in May
Astor + Blue Editions is a new digital-first publishing house looking to publish titles initially in digital formats to be followed by print.
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Bestselling Kid’s Author Releases Adult Title in Hay House Contest
Children’s author Lisa McCourt, who has written 33 books that have sold more than 5.5 million copies, just released her first book for adults, Juicy Joy (Hay House).
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Tracking Amazon: Inside Amazon's Warehouses
The Seattle Times takes an extensive look at the working conditions inside Amazon's warehouses, including the story of Connie Milby, a former "picker" who would walk 10 miles a day in the warehouse filling orders, and how she was fired two weeks ago for low productivity.
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Tracking Amazon: Inside the Amazon Sales Tax Situation
The Seattle Times has a lengthy article that looks at facets of the ongoing discussions between Amazon and state legislators around the country over the collection of sales taxes.
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Distribution: Bookmasters to Distribute Editorial Océano Mexico
Bookmasters signed a sales and distribution agreement with Editorial Océano Mexico to distribute its Spanish-language adult books in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
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Picador Names Stephen Morrison V-P and Publisher
Effective April 30, Stephen Morrison of Penguin Books will step into the role of v-p and publisher for Picador, reporting to Jonathan Galassi and Stephen Rubin. The hire comes shortly after the announcement that Frances Coady was stepping down.
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Bloomsbury Buys Fashion Education Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing has completed its acquisition of Fairchild Books. The New York-based Fairchild, which specializes in educational material and textbooks for fashion students, has been distributed (outside of North America) by Bloomsbury's Berg imprint since 2006.
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Call for Information, Reference Books – Reminder
For PW’s April 23 Reference feature please submit titles ASAP (our deadline was March 28) to Dick Donahue (ddonahue@publishersweekly.com). We’re looking at books pubbing between April 1 and September 30.
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Tracking Amazon: 'America the Beautiful' Sees Huge Spike
Dr. Ben Carson's America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great (Zondervan) has jumped to #11 from #5,781 on Amazon's bestseller list in the past 24 hours.
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Carroll & Brown Establishes U.S. Outpost with Midpoint Plus
Midpoint Trade Books is launching Midpoint Plus to help overseas publishers create a U.S. presence more economically than setting up an entire U.S. operation.
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Constable & Robinson Extends Third Party Service
Constable & Robinson will extend its third party sales and distribution service to more U.S. and Canadian publishers.
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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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