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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, August 3
"If you’re listening to us today, we can reasonably assume two things – one, you love books, and two, you’ve seen the number of places to buy books in your community shrink."
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Call for IBPA Cover Package
The deadline is August 6 for members of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) to have the opportunity to display titles on the front cover of Publishers Weekly in the August 27, 2012. If you would like to participate, please e-mail Terry Nathan at terry@ibpa-online.org, requesting details for the PW Front Cover package.
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Trevor Paglen’s 'The Last Pictures' To Be Launched Into Perpetual Orbit
In a unique co-publishing arrangement between University of California Press and New York's Creative Time Books, artist and scholar Trevor Paglen has written and edited The Last Pictures, a collection of 100 photographs that speak to questions in politics, science, and art.
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Wimpy Kid Partners with Walmart
In preparation for the latest theatrical release, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, on August 3, Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products has launched a national retail campaign with Walmart.
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Tracking Amazon: Gore Vidal Books Jump
On the day following his death, four of Gore Vidal's books have seen substantial sales increases on Amazon: The City and the Pillar (#152 from #3,117), Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (#169 from #2,927), Julian (#185 from #3,059), and Lincoln (#381 from #3,411).
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Weekly Print Sales Drop 32% from 2011, Borders to Blame
For the week ending July 29, total print sales were down 32% from the same week in 2011, due to the huge sales boom from Borders's liquidation sales in July 2011.
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Tracking Amazon: 'The Physician' Tops 50 Shades on Kindle
It takes a lot of e-books to top the 50 Shades trilogy, but the Kindle Daily Deal for The Physician by Noah Gordon pushed it to #1 on July 31 and into the morning of August 1. The deal dropped the e-book from $11.99 to $1.99, and moved it up the charts from its initial position of #11,978.
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Fernald Replaces Viehman at Down East Enterprise
Down East Enterprise has announced that group publisher John Viehman has left, and that his position will be filled by CEO Bob Fernald.
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Hiptype: Analytics for E-books
Hiptype, the new platform for data-driven book publishing, will launch this week—providing publishers’ e-books with engagement and demographic data. The goal of Hiptype, according to co-founder James Levy, is to help clients determine the "DNA" of a successful book.
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Distribution: NBN Picks Up Augsburg Fortress
Augsburg Fortress, publisher of bibles and congregational resources, has signed with National Book Network International to handle its distribution.
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Tracking Amazon: Joan Rivers Gets Boost from Colbert
On July 30, Joan Rivers appeared on The Colbert Report for her book I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me (Berkley). On July 31, the book was ranked #57 on Amazon's bestseller list, up from #2,042. For Kindle, the e-book jumped to #139 from #1,802.
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Scholastic Hits Certified Paper Goal Early
Scholastic upped its usage of Forest Stewardship Council paper to 53.3% of all paper purchases in 2011, a figure that exceeded its goal of having 35% of paper be FSC certified by 2012.
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Digital Pricing Strategies Webcast Set for July 31
Bob Pritchett and Joe Wikert will present the "Digital Pricing Strategies & Lessons Learned" webcast July 31 at 1 pm ET, as part of O'Reilly's TOC series.
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Tracking Amazon: Oliver Potzsch Books Skyrocket
Oliver Potzsch's The Beggar King doesn't come out until January 2013, but it's already #8 on the Kindle bestseller list. Potzsch's other Hangman's Daughter e-books, The Hangman's Daughter and The Dark Monk, on sale for $3.99 and $4.99, respectively, have jumped to #2 and #1.
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Agile Publishing Webcast Set for July 31
Bookigee's Kristen McLean will discuss agile methodology and examine their potential benefits in BISG's "Introduction to Agile Publishing" on July 31 from 1:00-2:00 pm ET. To register, please click here.
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News Briefs: Week of July 30, 2012
DoJ Reviews Comments, Will Proceed and more
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Ilex Press Enters U.S. Publishing Market
After packaging for a number of American publishers, among them Focal Press, St. Martin’s, Abrams, and Chronicle, U.K.-based Ilex Press is entering the U.S. with its own line of books that is being distributed by Ingram Publisher Services. Founded in 2000 by U.K. publishing veteran Alastair Campbell, Ilex specializes in books on photography, art, comics, and Web design, and also has a growing gift line.
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Atria Inks Co-Pub Deal with U.K.’s Short Books
Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint has teamed up with British independent publisher Short Books to start a new imprint called Marble Arch Press.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, July 27
The world’s wealthiest woman is also the world’s most pirated author. And to protect her new adult market novel, J.K. Rowling is trying to put a spell on would-be pirates. Listen here.
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Skyhorse Sexes Up the Classics With New Series
Tapping into the craze for all things erotica, thanks to the sustained popularity of E.L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Skyhorse Publishing is launching a line of books it says combines "literary class and erotic steam."
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