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Simon & Schuster Launches Site for Academic and Library Markets
Simon & Schuster has designed a new site specifically geared toward the academic and library community. Simonandschuster.net features information for teachers and librarians for grades K-12, public librarians, and professors and librarians in higher education.
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Penguin Classics Headed to Brazil
Thanks to an exclusive agreement with 23-year-old Brazilian publisher Companhia das Letras, Penguin Classics will begin publishing in Brazil. The initial list of titles will drop next year.
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Candlewick Goes Hi-Tech with DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo has come a long way from her debut author tour in 2000, which consisted of only two bookstore appearances in Minnesota: the Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul, and Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis. While the turnout at both events promoting DiCamillo’s first novel was "nice," the Twin Cities resident recalls, it was only "because my friends all came." This fall, DiCamillo’s publisher is making sure the bestselling author reaches more readers than ever before.
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Reynolds Book Inspired by Rose Kennedy Moved Up
With the recent death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Candlewick Press announced that it is moving up the on-sale date for Rose’s Garden, Peter H. Reynolds’s tribute to Kennedy’s mother and to a Boston park named after her, from February 2010 to October 13. The picture book, which tells of a girl named Rose who gathers seeds from around the world and comes to Boston, "poignantly captures my mother’s enduring spirit," wrote the Senator...
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Penguin Young Readers Shares Its New Point of View
Five backlist novels and two new titles are featured in Point of View, a fall marketing initiative from Penguin Young Readers Group. The campaign, which focuses on literary books with strong, somewhat challenging themes, entails consumer and trade components and aims to connect readers who embraced such novels as Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher and Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson to new books with a similar appeal.
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Tor.com Releases First Book
Tor.com recently announced that David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer’s anthology Year’s Best Fantasy 9 is available as a print-on-demand paperback, priced at $15.95. The book’s release marks Tor.com’s debut as a publishing entity, distinct from Tor Books.
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Levitz Steps Down at DC; Nelson to Head Revamped DC Entertainment
Paul Levitz will step down as president and publisher of DC Comics, which in turn will be reorganized and renamed DC Entertainment. Diane Nelson, formerly president of Warner Premier, Warner Bros. direct-to-DVD unit, will take over as president of DC Entertainment.
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Blu Sky Media Shutting Down
Small press distributor Blu Sky Media Group is going out of business, but has reached an agreement with its bank that gives clients 120 days to find a new home. Blu Sky was the distributor of the self-published hit, The Lace Reader.
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Patterson Signs 17-Book Deal with Hachette
James Patterson has signed a new 17-book deal with Hachette that will include 11 adult novels and six young adult works, in a deal extending through 2012.
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Tyrus Books Brings Star Power to Literacy Efforts
Tyrus Books is teaming up with actor Morgan Freeman for several publishing-related events aimed to improve literacy in the Mississippi Delta.
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Disney Buys Marvel
Disney's $4 billion acquisition of Marvel spurred a flurry of Internet jokes—X-Men: Mutant High School Musical, among them—but jokes aside, this is a union of two publishing and licensing powerhouses. Disney is the world's biggest licensing company, with more than $30 billion a year in licensing revenue.
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A New Look For Vintage Contemporaries
Vintage Contemporaries' cover designs tend to stay with readers: think The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time's red and black minimalism; Empire Falls's vintage movie poster feel; Motherless Brooklyn's black and white grittiness. As the imprint celebrates its 25th anniversary this fall, it is unveiling a spate of new covers for some of its most iconic books by renowned book designer ...
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IPS Adds VeloPress
Boulder, Colo.-based sports publisher VeloPress is the latest house to sign with four-and-a-half year old Ingram Publisher Services (IPS), which will handle both trade sales and fulfillment.
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Skyhorse Ups Printing of Favre Book
Brett Favre's much-covered indecision about leaving the gridiron might prove an unexpected boon for Skyhorse Publishing.
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Breaking Down Disney's Acquisition of Marvel
Can a mouse and a spider make lots of money together? We'll soon find out. The entertainment world was rocked Monday morning by the news that Disney plans to buy Marvel Entertainment for a cool $4 billion. Even the Kingpin would say that's a lot of dough.
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Disney to Acquire Marvel Comics for $4 Billion
In a blockbuster deal that brings together two of the biggest brands in American film, animation and comic books, the Walt Disney Co. has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in cash and stock.
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Random House Down in First Half of 2009
Random House reported that profits are down for the first half of 2009, in its results issued this morning. With revenue sinking largely due to the U.S. division, the publishing unit was boosted by a strong summer, but, ultimately, held down by the tumbling economy.
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Borders Leads Chains Downward
After falling 6.7% in the first quarter, total sales at the nation's three largest bookstore chains fell 7.5% in the second period and were down 7.3% for the first six months of 2009 ended August 1. The decline was driven primarily by the weak performance of Borders, where revenue fell 17.7% in the second quarter.
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Kindle Market Share on the Rise
Desktop and laptop computers were the preferred way for the public to read e-books through the first seven months of 2009, but their market share has been giving way to a host of new devices, according to the latest research from Bowker's PubTrack Consumer service. Of e-book downloads through July, 40% were made to computers, down from 48% at the end of the first quarter.
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Thinking Outside The Bookstore Box
A new breed of booksellers, many of whom got their start in the B2B world, are finding success by altering the traditional independent bookselling model. They retain a commitment to independent bookselling and frequently belong to both their regional booksellers' association and ABA—and they influence the bestsellers by reporting their sales to the New York Times.
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