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Amazon Responds to Wal-Mart Price War with New Delivery Options
Amazon has fired a shot in the pricing war with Wal-Mart that broke out Thursday, by introducing same-day delivery in seven major cities and expanding its Saturday delivery options.
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Scholastic Adds Novel Dimension to Book Cover
An ominous-looking character pops—literally—from the front of Malice, Chris Wooding’s YA novel about London teens who get trapped in a world that exists inside a horrifying comic book. Published this month by Scholastic Press, this paper-over-board volume has a cover that features a 3-D, molded plastic figure and display type, which presented design and production crews with challenges they’d never before encountered.
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A Closer Look at Disney Digital Books
Late last month, Disney Publishing Worldwide unveiled the launch of Disney Digital Books, and further details were announced during Disney’s presentation to the media on October 8. An online library of more than 500 classic and contemporary titles, Disney Digital Books was designed around three key components: an Interactive Reader, Look and Listen, and a Story Builder, which lets kids create their own books. Because Disney owns its own content...
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Workman Trots Out New Scanimation Books
When Rufus Butler Seder's Gallop!, featuring Seder's Scanimation technology, hit the scene back in 2007, readers responded. Gallop! landed at the top of bestseller lists and stores had trouble keeping it in stock. That book was followed in 2008 by a sports-themed sequel, Swing!, and Workman has just released a third book, Waddle!, as well as a Spanish-language edition of Gallop! called ¡Al Galope!
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Bantam Signs Koontz for New Frankenstein Novels
Bantam has signed Dean Koontz for three new Frankenstein novels, which will be the first of the series—launched with two volumes in 2005—that will be published in hardcover. The first new volume, Lost Souls, will be published in May 2010 and begins a new story cycle that will continue with the two subsequent books, to be released in May 2011 and May 2012.
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McGraw-Hill Professional in E-books Deal with ScrollMotion
McGraw-Hill Professional has announced a deal with iPhone app developer ScrollMotion to offer e-books as iPhone and iPod Touch apps via ScrollMotion’s Iceberg Reader.
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Change Makers: Don Barliant
Bookseller brings books to people
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B&N Remains Cautious for Holidays
In a conference call discussing current business trends as well as the impact on B&N Inc. of acquiring Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, CFO Joseph Lombardi said that while the college division's sales were “a little short” of what was expected, the unit was still making its earnings numbers.
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Unbridled's New Direction
Exactly five years after kicking off its first season with a single title, The Green Age of Asher Witherow (2004), Unbridled Books is releasing 10 titles this fall, its largest list yet. The press, well-known among independent booksellers for its literary fiction, is moving in a new direction with the September publication of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey...
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Distribution: Langenscheidt Adds Language Line; Hachette Expands Chronicle
Langenscheidt has added the Fluenz software language line to its distribution roster, while Hachette Book Group will distribute Chronicle titles in select foreign markets.
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Earthscan Acquires Assets of RFF Press
U.K.-based environmental publisher Earthscan has acquired the publishing assets of RFF Press.
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The Wimp Factor
In schoolyards, jocks may still rule. But in bookstores, the big boy on campus is a wimp. More specifically, he’s a middle-schooler named Greg Heffley, the star of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Next Monday, Amulet Books imprint is releasing four million copies of Dog Days, the fourth installment of the cartoon-illustrated novels—the largest first printing for any children’s book this year.
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Comps Off at Barnes & Noble Retail, College Groups
Barnes & Noble Inc. this morning released its first financial results since the September 30 completion of its acquisition of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers. The figures show the college division performing better than the retail operations, although same-store sales for both are down in the second quarter.
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Florida Indie Inks Deal With Jean-Michel Cousteau
Florida-based independent press Ocean Publishing has signed Jean-Michel Cousteau to a four-book deal.
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'Wimpy Kid 4' Print Run Upped to Four Million
Harry N. Abrams announced late Tuesday that it has increased the print run for the October 12 release of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days from three million to four million, based on strong demand. This makes the fourth installment of the cartoon-illustrated novels the largest first printing for any children’s book this year.
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‘Symbol’ Ripples Begin to Stir
A couple of independent publishers reported that the expected spillover effect of readers interested in all things relate to The Lost Symbol has begun.
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Big Spanish-Language Printing for 'Lost Symbol'
Grupo Planeta is printing 1 million copies of the Spanish-language edition of The Lost Symbol, which Perseus will distribute in the U.S.
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New Square Fish Program Packs Double Punch
This month Square Fish is debuting its Flip Me paperback line, which presents two back-to-back, flip-over chapter books by one author in a single volume. The program draws from the backlists of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group’s four imprints. A practical concern provided the inspiration, explains Jean Feiwel, senior v-p and director of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, who informally refers to the Flip Me line as "Square Fish Squared."
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Simon & Schuster Launches Inaugural Vooks
In an experiment testing consumers’ interest in integrated print and video content, Simon & Schuster has partnered with multimedia start-up Vook to create a quartet of titles that melds print and video.
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Simon & Schuster Unites Pocket, Simon Spotlight Entertainment in Gallery Books Imprint
Simon & Schuster has united the editorial and publicity teams of its Pocket Books and Simon Spotlight Entertainment into a new imprint called Gallery Books. The new group will be headed by Louise Burke who is now executive v-p and publisher of Gallery with Antony Ziccardi named v-p and deputy publisher.
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