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Roost Books Launched by Shambhala Publications
Shambhala Publications has launched Roost Books, its new lifestyle imprint, placing president Nikko Odiseos in charge. The first title under the Roost Books imprint is All Together Singing in the Kitchen by Nerissa and Katryna Nields, a music book for families, set to pub on September 13.
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Random House Revives Loveswept as E-only Imprint
Bantam’s Loveswept imprint was one of the most popular romance imprints in the 1980s and 1990s and now Random House is reviving Loveswept as an e-book only line that will release its first titles in August.
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Norton Revives Iconic 20th Century Imprint Liveright
Norton is reopening its former literary imprint Liveright & Company with executive editor Robert Weil as editor-in-chief and publishing director.
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News Briefs: Week of 6/20/2011
Borders in Pact To Prevent Closings
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New Sports Champs Have New Books Out
The obligatory sports books celebrating the victors of the NBA and NHL championships are in the works with Triumph Books and KCI Sports doing titles on the Mavericks' and Bruins' wins, respectively.
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Thomas Nelson to Open Thomas Nelson Mexico
Thomas Nelson will open Thomas Nelson Mexico, a wholly owned division based in Mexico City, on August 1, giving the company the opportunity to market, distribute and sell its titles locally.
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Ingram Opens Lightning Source Plant in Australia
Ingram Content Group officially opened its Lightning Source Australia facility in Melbourne Thursday, its fifth globally networked print-on-demand plant. The opening of Ingram’s Australia location broadens the reach of the publishers that work with Lightning Source to a network of bookstores, libraries, and online retailers around the world.
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HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand and Weta Workshop Sign Multi-Platform Agreement
HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand has entered into an agreement with Weta Workshop, the conceptual design and manufacturing firm responsible for effects and design on films like Avatar, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Distribution: IPM Adds Two
International Publishers Marketing (IPM) has announced two new client publishers from South Africa. It will distribute titles from New Africa Books starting fall 2011 and Briza beginning in winter 2011-2012. Both are first time entrants into the U.S. & Canadian markets but each has licensed books with North American publishers.
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Amazon Publishing Announces Summer List
Amazon Publishing has unveiled its summer and early fall list of 32 titles. The books, which fall under the banner of the e-tailer's various imprints including its translation unit AmazonCrossing and its recently announced mystery unit Thomas & Mercer, will be available in the Kindle store as well as in print on Amazon and in bookstores.
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Siglio Press: Merging Literature and the Visual Arts
From the office in her hillside home in Los Angeles, Lisa Pearson, founder and publisher of Siglio Press, muses about the inevitability of her foray into book publishing in 2007 after years spent advocating for the arts.
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Akashic to Launch Open Lens Imprint
Looking to provide a publishing platform for serious literary works, Brooklyn indie publisher Akashic Books is teaming with three notable African-American publishing and bookselling figures to launch Open Lens, a new imprint specializing in quality fiction and nonfiction aimed at the African-American reading audience. The new imprint will be called Open Lens and will debut in September with Makeda, a new novel by Randall Robinson, founder of the human rights and social justice organization TransAfrica.
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News Briefs: Week of 6/13/2011
Borders May Close More Stores and More.
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Macmillan Partners with Raincoast; Will Sell Some Accounts Direct
Following the bankruptcy of its Canadian distributor H.B. Fenn earlier this year, Macmillan has reached an agreement with Vancouver's Raincoast Book Distribution to handle sales and fulfillment for its titles to the independent bookstore, library, and specialty markets as well as for Costco Canada. Macmillan will directly sell to Indigo, Amazon and ID wholesalers. Farrar, Straus & Giroux will continue to be sold by Douglas & McIntyre in Canada.
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Robert McCullough Gets Imprint at RH Canada
Robert McCullough, who was at the Vancouver-based Whitecap Books, will be heading a new imprint at Random House Canada dedicated to food and lifestyle books. McCullough, who will start at RH on July 11, has been at Whitecap 21 years and has been publisher there since 2001. At Whitecap, McCullough published a range of famous chefs including Gordon Ramsay and Curtis Stone.
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Phaidon to Publish 'The Art Museum'
No stranger to mammoth all-encompassing surveys of art history, Phaidon is at it again. In October the art book publisher plans to publish The Art Museum, a nearly 1,000-page comprehensive history of art from antiquity to the present, conceived as a virtual museum-in-a-book that attempts to create the ideal museum, unconstrained by physical space. Compiled over 10 years by more than 100 specialists, the book collects more than 2,500 of the most beautiful and significant works in the history of art.
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Counterpoint Rebounds from Cutbacks
After a year spent reducing the size of its list, closing its New York office, and stabilizing its staff, Berkeley-based Counterpoint LLC is "in a good place," according to president and publisher Charlie Winton, pointing to a spate of high profile reviews coverage and rapid growth of e-book sales. The house also has a number of big titles slated for fall and winter, including a new book by punk rock political activist Sander Hicks, former owner/founder of Soft Skull Press, now a Counterpoint imprint, who returns to Soft Skull to publish what will likely be a controversial book on the events surrounding 9/11.
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News Briefs: Week of 6/6/11
Borders Gets Extension; Sale Process Heats Up and More.
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