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Parker’s Brothers & A Suitable Job for a Woman
Two mystery book experts go head-to-head on the topic of male and female writers and characters in the genre.
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Earning More Than an ‘A’: Master's Programs Fill the Needs for a More Complex Industry
The wide world of publishing is changing; everyone will tell you that. But if you ask what about publishing is changing, you’ll likely hear about the decline of physical books or the growth of digital books. And while the loss of bookstores and the latest, lightest e-reader make for compelling stories, they overshadow a less visible change currently happening at the other end of publishing: how people are getting into the industry.
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News Briefs: Week of November 21, 2011
September Store Sales Up and more.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, November 18
With Thanksgiving, and Black Friday, approaching fast, PW attended the Association for Corporate Growth's second annual retail conference this week to get a sense of what retailers can expect this holiday shopping season. Also at the conference, former Borders CEO Mike Edwards, who offered refreshingly candid assessment of the company’s fatal mistakes.
Listen to the podcast here.
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NBA Winners Going Back to Press
The four winners at Wednesday's National Book Awards are all getting rewarded by their publishers with increased print runs.
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NEA Gives $22 Million Across 863 Grants
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country, totaling $22.5 million.
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RH Debuts Enhanced E-books for Reading Groups
Random House has announced the development and launch of Random House Reader’s Circle Deluxe Reading Group Editions.
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Knopf's High-End Print Package for '1Q84' Pays Off
It's just under a thousand pages. It's a work in translation. It got a not-so-glowing review from the New York Times. Following standard publishing wisdom, Haruki Murakami's newest work, 1Q84, should not be the out-of-the-gate hit it is.
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Book Country Launches Self-Publishing Services
Book Country, a free online writing community and publishing services venture launched by Penguin in April, has now added a suite of economically priced, easy-to-use self-publishing tools for its members.
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HMH Reorganization Bypasses Trade Division
Linda K. Zecher, the former Microsoft executive who took over as CEO of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in September, is implementing a sweeping reorganization of its education operation aimed at creating a single, unified business.The trade and reference group is unaffected by the reorganization.
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Head of RH Struik to Retire
Random House Struik, Random House's division in South Africa, is losing its managing directer. Stephen Johnson is retiring at the end of March.
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News Briefs: Week of Nevember 14, 2011
Japanese Company Buys Kobo and more.
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NewSouth Reissues Southern Humorist’s Oeuvre
For decades, Georgia native Lewis Grizzard was a Southern institution, penning a beloved column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and turning out 25 books of his patented down-home humor—including Elvis Is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself and If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I’m Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground—before his death in 1994, at the early age of 47.
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From Magazine To Book: ‘CJR’ Makes the Leap
On November 15, Columbia Journalism Review will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the premier magazines in its field. The recognition of that long legacy will also be marked by the beginning of a new venture for the journal: Columbia Journalism Review Books.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, November 11
B&N introduces it's new tablet, and Kobo learns to say, “konnichiwa,” as it is acquired by e-commerce company Rakuten for hefty $315 million. In Monday's issue, PW features a tablet "tale of of the tape," as well as detailed report on the recently concluded PubWest conference, and a feature on Romance. Listen to the podcast here.
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S&S Overhauls Sales Division, Revamps Marketing
As more sales move from print to digital, Simon & Schuster has unveiled a news sales and marketing operation that will increase marketing efforts for both print and digital titles, while moving more of its sales efforts from physical stores to digital.
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Brooks's 'World War Z' Hits Sales Milestone
Max Brooks's zombie novel World War Z has surpassed the million copies sold mark. The book, which was publishing by Random House's Crown imprint in hardcover in September 2006, has sold over 1 million copies in all formats combined: hardcover, paperback and digital.
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ProQuest Unveils New Organization, Cuts Some Management Positions
ProQuest this week announced that it has reorganized into six business units, and named a new executive team. In addition, sources tell PW that 40 jobs have been eliminated across the company, which employs some 1,800 people.
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Little, Brown Recalls Spy Book with Lifted Passages
Little, Brown has recalled copies of Assassin of Secrets by Q.R. Markham from retailers across the country in light of passages and lines lifted from classic and contemporary spy novels.
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