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Tracking Amazon: Oscar Movies See Sales Increase
A number of books that inspired films nominated for an Academy Award this year are seeing a sharp uptick immediately following the Sunday night telecast of the show.
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News Briefs: Week of February 27, 2012
IPG Stands Firm on Amazon Terms and more.
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Square One’s Personal Mission Drives New Cancer Book
For Square One Publishers’ founder Rudy Shur, Beyond the Magic Bullet—The Anti-Cancer Cocktail: A New Approach to Beating Cancer, which his company released earlier this month, is the culmination of a three-year personal connection he forged with the book’s author, Dr. Raymond Chang.
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Where the Major Papers Stand
The recession, combined with the boom in readers turning away from print and to the Web, was a one-two-punch that forced most major American newspapers to cut back their book review coverage—or drop their review sections altogether
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, February 24
In her weekly review of PW reviews, Rose Fox brings word of “a completely G-rated romance.”
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Tracking Amazon: Kindle Favors Fiction, Physical Favors Nonfiction in Movers & Shakers
Amazon's Movers & Shakers, the ranking of books that see the biggest sales increase in the past 24 hours, is dominated by fiction titles on the Kindle side and nonfiction titles on the physical side.
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Tracking Amazon: Preorders Still Favor Hardcovers
One area that Amazon's physical bestseller list still trumps the Kindle bestseller list is in preorders.
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Tracking Amazon: Changes at the Top of the Bestseller List
Though mainstays like The Hunger Games series and Steve Jobs are still selling, there are a few newcomers to the Amazon Top 10, including the new #1 book: Yes! Energy: The Equation to Do Less, Make More by Loral Langemeier.
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11% of Students Rent Textbooks, New BISG Study Finds
The first part of Volume Two of BISG's "Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education" has been released, finding that students want more value at lower prices from their textbooks.
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S&S Makes Changes to Royalty Format
Simon & Schuster has sent a letter to its authors touting some changes to the way it presents its royalty statement. The house claims the new format "flows more logically" while noting that "of course, the method by which royalties are calculated has remained unchanged."
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Savannah Book Festival Wraps Record Fifth Year
The Savannah Book Festival this past week—from Brad Thor’s Wednesday night dinner to Sunday’s closing ceremony with Stephen King—was another success for the 115 volunteers who make the fest a reality.
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Educational Distributor and Publisher Launches in St. Louis
The founder of school book distributor Knowledge Industries starts the Classroom Library Co., an educational distributor and publisher for K-8.
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News Briefs: Week of February 20, 2012
Open Road, George Deny ‘Wolves’ Charges and more.
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Disney to Hachette
Disney Book Group, Hyperion Books, and Marvel have signed a preliminary agreement to move to the Hachette Book Group for book distribution services.
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Profits Rise Again at Simon & Schuster
Since e-books first became a meaningful part of a publisher’s business in 2009, results at Simon & Schuster have followed a familiar pattern—a decline in revenue but an increase in earnings. Between 2009 and 2011, total sales at S&S dipped 0.7%, but adjusted operating income has jumped 84%. Margins at the company improved from 5.8% in 2009 to 10.8% last year. And despite revenue falling by almost $100 million since 2007, S&S’s earnings and operating margins are almost the same as they were five years ago.
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Bringing Synergy Back
The word synergy, in the world of book publishing, feels like a term that died in the ’90s. Back then, almost every publisher housed within a media conglomerate was touting the ways it would use its TV-making or movie-making sister companies to sell books. Fox would boost HarperCollins. Viacom/CBS would boost Simon & Schuster. Not much came of all that talk. But Ellen Archer, president and publisher of Hyperion, is reviving synergy. In fact, Archer thinks it will be one of the keys to the success of her house in 2012.
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Top Cow Looks Back to Go Forward
Top Cow Productions, having survived for two decades as a comics publisher, is mixing it up, experimenting with genres and crossover series, as well as rebranding. And of course, digital delivery is a big part of it.
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Frances Coady Out as Picador Restructures
Frances Coady, who has been overseeing Macmillan's Picador imprint since 2000, is leaving the company. PW has learned that Coady will be stepping down on March 2.
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John Wiley Acquires Inscape Holdings
John Wiley has acquired Inscape Holdings, parent company of Inscape Publishing, for $85 million.
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