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New Ingram App Delivers Info to Desktops
The Ingram Content Group has developed the Ingram Wire, a downloadable desktop application that will allow booksellers to receive stock information and other book news directly on their Mac or PC.
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'Going Rouge' Picked Up by HCI
Going Rouge, the left-wing critical take on Sarah Palin published by upstart OR Books, is going to bookstores after all.
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Philip Turner Teams with Rowman & Littlefield to Launch Imprint
Philip Turner, a former publishing executive for Sterling Publishing, Carroll & Graf and other New York houses, announced plans to publish a series of books through a new imprint to be “hosted” by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group and distributed through National Book Network.
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Hachette to Significantly Up Use of Recycled Fiber as Part of New Environmental Policy
The Hachette Book Group has announced a new environmental policy that will increase the publisher’s use of recycled paper, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the use of paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. The policy has both long-term and short-term targets.
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Springer Partners with CreateSpace for Print on Demand
Springer is using CreateSpace to print its paperback editions.
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Holt Acquires Schiff Bio of Mailer
Holt has acquired award-winning journalist and screenwriter Stephen Schiff’s forthcoming biography on Norman Mailer.
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BookSurge, CreateSpace Merge
The two Amazon imprints will share a common platform under the CreateSpace brand.
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Dutton and Riverhead Launch Redeemer Imprint
Dutton and Riverhead are launching a new imprint devoted to books from evangelical Christian preacher Timothy Keller and his Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Keller, who, according to a recent article in New York Magazine draws some 5,000 Manhattanites to hear his sermons every Sunday, has previously published bestsellers with Dutton and Riverhead.
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Kindle A Top Seller, Store Date for Nook Delayed
Amazon reports that the Kindle remains its bestselling product, while B&N is delaying shipping the Nook to stores to first meet online demand.
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Indigo Wants Books to Be More Environmentally Friendly
Indigo Books & Music is asking publishers to report whether or not their books are published on recycled paper or paper that has been certified to come from sustainably managed forests as part of its green initiatives.
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New Additions to Random's Books = Gifts Program
Random House is expanding its Books = Gifts program from last year. The campaign has new interactive elements that highlight books as perfect gifts for all ages and interests and a redesigned logo which doesn’t include any RH-specific branding. It is available at no charge to all book publishers, retailers, bloggers and anyone else wanting to promote books as gifts.
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Paris Press's 'Sister' Act
Paris Press has just released a new anthology, Sisters, which gave the indie its first People review.
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Little Cheer from Chains
Despite a boost in sales from The Lost Symbol and facing weak comparisons with last year’s third quarter, total revenue from the nation’s three largest bookstore chains dropped 2.3% in the period ended October 31, with revenue falling to $1.87 billion. Compared to the third quarter of 2007, revenue from the major chains was down 8.
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Cleis's Keys to Success: Sex, the Good Life, and No Debt
While others in the industry scramble to get a grip on e-books and lament lackluster sales in a bad economy, Cleis Press reports sales up 50% over last year, and the company is looking for new offices to accommodate its growth. Although Cleis was founded in 1980 with a mission to publish women's books that documented the resilience and resistance of women rather than victimhood, over the years ...
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Harlequin Horizons Now DellArte Press
In the wake of widespread criticism over its self-publishing imprint, Harlequin has changed the imprint’s name from Harlequin Horizons to DellArte Press. As Harlequin publisher and CEO Donna Hayes said it would, the company renamed the imprint to a designation “that [does] not refer to Harlequin in any way.” There is no mention of Harlequin on DellArte’s Web site.
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Duke University to Publish Obama’s Mom’s Pioneering Book
The American Anthropological Association is working in conjunction with Duke University Press to publish Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, a revised edition of the doctoral dissertation of S. Ann Dunham, also known as Ann Dunham Soetoro, the mother of President Barack Obama.
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Random Pushes Up Paperback Release of NBA-Winning 'Great World'
Random House has pushed up the paperback publication of last week’s National Book Award winner for fiction, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. The trade paperback edition was originally slated for next spring but will now go on sale December 4 with a 100,000-copy first printing.
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Little, Brown Has H1N1 E-Book Update
Little, Brown announced Monday that it will publish its first e-book only update December 1 when it makes available a 2,000-word piece on the subject in it’s The Vaccine Book, written by Dr. Robert Sears.
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Barnes & Noble Has Mixed Quarter, Lowers Earnings Guidance
Sales from its general stores fell 2% in the quarter, but rose 9% from B&N.com and the acquisition of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers added $65 million to revenue. Demand for the Nook exceeded expectations, but increased higher production costs and slow retail traffic forced the company to lower earnings expectations.
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Borders Third Quarter Results "Difficult and Disappointing"
Total sales at Borders Group continued to sink in the third quarter, though the chain did better on the bottom-line. Revenue fell 12.7% in the quarter ended October 31, to $595.5 million, while the loss form continuing operations was cut to $38.5 million from $172.2 million in the third quarter of 2008.
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