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Landesman Seen As Good Fit For NEA

by Judith Rosen | 05/25/2009 @ 06:00AM

President Barack Obama's recent announcement that he will nominate 61-year-old Broadway producer Rocco Landesman, president of Jujamcyn Theaters, to chair the National Endowment for the Arts was met with enthusiasm by many independent presses, although most had never heard of him until his name was raised in mid-May.
New Site for Self-Published Books

by Calvin Reid | 05/25/2009 @ 06:00AM

Public relations professional and author Amy Edelman is launching IndieReader.com, a Web site devoted to marketing and selling self-published books. The site will launch in early June and offers self-publishers their own Web page as well as 75% of the sales of their books—all for an annual fee and a “submissions” charge for each book selected for the site.
Books-A-Million Posts First-Quarter Gains

By Jim Milliot | 05/22/2009 @ 02:00PM

Though comp store sales fell 1.1% in the first quarter, total revenue rose 2.0% at Books-A-Million, and earnings improved.
Kids, Cooking High on Marshall's To Do List for Borders

By Vickie Elmer | 05/22/2009 @ 01:12PM

At the bookstore chain's annual meeting, Borders CEO Ron Marshall said expanding the retailer's children's department was a top priority along with adding more cooking and health titles.
eMusic Adds Audiobooks from Recorded Books and HighBridge

By Lynn Andriani | 05/21/2009 @ 05:46PM

eMusic’s audiobook catalog has officially surpassed 7,000 titles. The expansion is due to new agreements to sell DRM-free audiobooks from Recorded Books and HighBridge Audio. eMusic has also recently added Sounds True, Gildan Media, Oasis Audio and PublicAffairs to its roster.
Sales Fall Less Than Expected at Barnes & Noble; Has Improved Outlook

By Jim Milliot | 05/21/2009 @ 02:09PM

Comp store sales fell 5.7% at Barnes & Noble in the first quarter, slightly less than expected, and the company said it now believes same store sales for the full year will fall less than originally planned.
Getty Publications Cuts Non-Publishing Staff

By Wendy Werris | 05/21/2009 @ 01:38PM

Last month, Getty Publications laid off 10 employees, mostly in non-publishing areas such as the production of maps and brochures.
Amazon Upgrades its Kindle for Iphone App

By Calvin Reid | 05/20/2009 @ 03:00PM

Amazon is paying close attention to Apple’s iphone and ipod touch devices and has released an upgrade that will add functionality to its Kindle for ihone app.
Morgan James Launches Two Imprints

By Jim Milliot | 05/20/2009 @ 01:58PM

The indie house is starting one imprint for entrepenuers and a second examining sports and business.
RH Films 'Husband' Gets Director

By Rachel Deahl | 05/20/2009 @ 01:46PM

Random House Films has attached a director to one of its incubating projects, a film adaptation of Dean Koontz's thriller, The Husband.
HarperOne's Little Black Book Now Online

By Lynn Andriani | 05/19/2009 @ 06:15PM

HarperOne is replacing the print version of The Little Black Book—its guide listing authors it publishes in the self-help, spirituality, personal growth and religion categories—with a free, searchable, online database.
OverDrive in Deal with ChineseAll

By Lynn Andriani | 05/18/2009 @ 01:52PM

The digital audiobook distributor is partnering with digital publisher ChineseAll to supply Chinese-language e-books and audiobooks to public libraries in North America. The collection will include more than 20,000 titles, with 8,000 e-books and 3,000 audiobooks to be available in the first year.
Books Flat at Hastings

| 05/18/2009 @ 01:37PM

Same store sales at Hastings Entertainment increased just 0.2% in the first quarter ended April 30.
Amazon Launches Publishing Program

By Rachel Deahl | 05/14/2009 @ 01:50PM

In its first significant foray into publishing, Amazon has acquired world English rights to a self-published novel by a midwestern teenager called Legacy. The acquisition marks the first for the company under its newly launched AmazonEncore program.
Starbucks Picks 'Crazy for the Storm'

By Lynn Andriani | 05/14/2009 @ 01:35PM

The next selection in Starbucks’s book program will be Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad, which Ecco will publish on June 2.
First Quarter Loss at Bertelsmann

| 05/12/2009 @ 01:32PM

The parent company of Random House had a 7% revenue decline and a loss of 78 million euros.
Kindle DX: Bigger Screen, Higher Price, Many Questions

By Calvin Reid | 05/11/2009 @ 06:00AM

Ending a week of heavy media speculation, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the new, larger-format Kindle DX in front of about 200 journalists and camera crews at Pace University in lower Manhattan. Using a giant projection screen, Bezos delivered a presentation on the Kindle DX, which is essentially a Kindle 2 with a bigger, 9.
The E-book Pricing Conundrum

by Rachel Deahl | 05/11/2009 @ 06:00AM

With the industry intently focused on Amazon and its further expansion into the digital reading space—see p. 5 for more on the release of the Kindle DX—the price for e-books and how profits on them are broken down continues to be a hot topic among publishers, authors and agents. Currently, publishers make as much money on Kindle editions as print editions, since Amazon, the largest ...
Alibris Expanding Distribution Services

by Jim Milliot | 05/11/2009 @ 06:00AM

Alibris is ramping up a program that has been gaining momentum since it was first launched 18 months ago. Alibris Distribution Services aims to help booksellers and publishers that want to liquidate excess inventory, but don't want to put the resources into selling the titles online themselves. Under what Alibris CEO Brian Elliott called a consignment program, ADS provides cataloguing, pricing,...
HBG to Distribute Hachette UK Titles in Canada

| 05/08/2009 @ 02:10PM

Beginning January 1, Hachette Book Group USA will take over distribution of Hachette UK’s titles into the Canadian market.

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