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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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Octopus Buys Ticktock Entertainment
The U.K.-based Octopus Publishing Group has acquired the business and publishing assets of Ticktock Entertainment Ltd, the children’s nonfiction publisher.
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Chinese Publisher Grows with Help of Western Titles
Since the China Publishing Group Corp. was founded in 2006 in Beijing, the publishing house has grown from three employees and a handful of titles to a staff of 45 with plans to release 100 titles this year.
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Writers House Signs with Argo Navis
Writers House is the latest literary agency to sign on to Perseus Books Group’s Argo Navis Author Service program.
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Tracking Amazon: Cookbooks Take Over Kindle
On the morning of March 26, a staggering 32 cookbooks were in Amazon's top 35 Kindle Movers & Shakers, including the #1 title, The Everything Mediterranean Cookbook by Dawn Altomari-Rathjen and Jennifer Bendelius.
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New Female Novelists Draw Plaudits
This spring and summer readers will see a healthy dose of first-time efforts from (young) female authors. A number of these titles are drawing strong early word-of-mouth, as well as solid reviews. A look at of few of the debuts that have people talking.
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Crime Magazine 'Grift' Debuts
Grift Magazine, a new crime fiction publication that offers a mix of essays, interviews, and short fiction, debuted last week.
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News Briefs: Week of March 26, 2012
Hastings Making Product Shifts and more.
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