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ebrary Inks Australian E-book Deals
E-book and digital platform provider ebrary announced this week that it has partnered with James Bennett, a leading library acquisitions services supplier, to facilitate e-book access at libraries throughout Australia.
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Akashic Launches Drug-Based Anthologies
Akashic Books, publisher of the successful city-based Noir Series, is branching out from locale-centric stories with a new sister series focused on drugs, called the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series.
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Steve Jobs Book Moved Up to November
Agate Publishing has moved its forthcoming collection of quotes by Steve Jobs, I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words from Spring 2012 to mid-November 2011. The book will be published under Agate's B2 Books business imprint.
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News Briefs: Week of September 5, 2011
BAM Gets Leases; Finley Named President, and more.
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Hard Case Crime Relaunches with Titan
After parting ways with Dorchester Publishing last August and finding a new home at Titan Books in the fall, Hard Case Crime is back this season with four new titles.
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'Unbroken' Tops One Million Sold in Hardcover
Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken has passed the one-million-copy milestone in hardcover copies sold.
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Random House and Triumph Part Ways
Following the July sale of Monacelli Press to Gianfranco Monacelli, Random announced today that Triumph Books, the Chicago sports publisher it acquired in 2006, has been sold back to its publisher, Mitch Rogatz.
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Broadcaster Bob Edwards Releases Memoir E-book Early
Bob Edwards, the legendary broadcaster and former host of All Things Considered and Morning Edition, will release his new memoir, A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio for free on electronic devices a week before its print edition releases.
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Lynch: Agency Model Dominates
The agency model may have drawn a host of class action lawsuits but Barnes & Noble sees it becoming the dominant form of pricing.
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Distribution: PGW to Handle Unbridled Books
Publishers Group West and Unbridled Books announced that PGW will begin distributing their print titles in the US beginning October 1, 2011. Unbridled also signed with Constellation for their e-book distribution.
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Brazilian Government Objects to U.S. Small Press Title
Brazilian government officials are expressing their objections in that country’s major print media to a small Ohio publisher’s latest release, a parody set in a fictional Rio de Janero by a satirist who’s never visited that country. Due to the controversy, Two Dollar Radio will make Seven Days in Rio available in digital format to Brazilians.
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Hot Topic: Tome Raiders
If heft is what you're looking for—as well as something that can do double duty keeping doors ajar—you'll have a few literary options this fall. Whether you're in the market for revisionist history or alternate reality, you'll be able to find something clocking in at just under, or just over, 1,000 pages.
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New Name, New Model at BenchPrep
Previously known as Watermelon Express, the test prep and educational app developer has a new name, BenchPrep, and has rebranded itself as a firm offering interactive learning programs that can be used on any device.
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News Briefs: Week of August 29, 2011
Borders Sales Rise as Inventory Shrinks, and more.
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Len Vlahos Named BISG Executive Director
Len Vlahos, COO of the American Booksellers Association, has been appointed executive director of the Book Industry Study Group. Vlahos succeeds former BISG executive director Scott Lubeck, who resigned from the position in May. Vlahos will start his new job on September 12 and address the BISG annual meeting on September 20.
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'Parachute' Stays Relevant At 40
When your book makes it onto the Library of Congress's "25 Books That Have Shaped Readers' Lives" alongside books like the Bible and War and Peace, the phrase "rest on your laurels" could certainly be applicable and understandable. But that's the last thing author Richard N. Bolles and Ten Speed Press are doing for the just released 40th anniversary edition of What Color Is Your Parachute?
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News Briefs: Week of August 22, 2011
Quarto Results Rise; Group Buys Frances Lincoln Ltd. and more.
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9/11 Again
Ten years after, you wonder what we've learned. When the towers fell on September 11, Frank Rich wrote a moving column the following Sunday in the New York Times saying everything had changed—the "fat, daydreaming America" that feasted on reality shows like Survivor and Fear Factor, he said, "is gone now, way gone."
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Will January 1, 2013, Be Doomsday for Publishers?
As Don Henley told the New York Times, what's at stake is "fairness" and "parity." The Eagles lead singer, who also heads a group called the Recording Artists Coalition, was referring to a revision to copyright law, made in the 1970s, that could drastically affect the ownership of some of the cornerstones of classic rock.
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