September 26, 2012
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 B&N Unveils Redesigned Nook Tablet Devices Not to be outdone in a year that has seen a series of new tablet devices released by its competitors, Barnes & Noble has unveiled the 7-inch Nook HD starting at $199 (8GB) and a 9-inch Nook HD+ starting at $269 (16GB), a new generation of redesigned lightweight multimedia tablet readers with sharper, high resolution screens, faster processors and new shopping interfaces and recommendation software. The new devices are available for preorder beginning today in the U.S. and the U.K. for shipping in late October and they will be on store shelves by November. more »  The Association of American Publishers has issued a response criticizing an open letter recently published by the American Library Association on the e-book issue. "At a time when individual publishing houses are more actively engaged than ever in exploring viable solutions to e-lending," the statement reads, "we are disappointed that the new leadership at ALA chose this path, with this particular timing, to criticize those efforts." The AAP and ALA are still set to meet September 27 to discuss the e-book lending issue. more » ADVERTISEMENT   Disney Completes California and NYC Transition Back in April Disney Publishing Worldwide announced that it was moving its employees from White Plains to New York City and Glendale, Calif.; that transition is now nearing completion. Jennifer Levine, v-p, global communications for Disney, told PW that the decision to relocate the majority of DPW's operations to Glendale "was made with the goal of more closely aligning and integrating DPW with the Walt Disney Company's incredible content and distribution platforms, which are based in California." more » PW has learned that on Tuesday afternoon a staffing announcement was made internally to the Thomas Nelson and Zondervan employees who now comprise the HarperCollins Christian Publishing Division. A company spokesperson stated that the division has "finalized its structure and teams for Books, Bibles and Sales leadership. This means that our editorial staff can be 100% focused on acquiring and developing projects." The company declined to provide any further details at this time. more » The management and staff of Veen Bosch & Keuning Publishing Group, a major publisher of trade books in the Netherlands and Belgium, will take over ownership of the company November 1. The house has been owned by NDC|VBK Publishing Group. more »
 Jumpstart's Read for the Record Gets Senate Stamp of Approval October 4, 2012 is Jumpstart's Read for the Record Day, per U.S. Senate Resolution 584, adopted on September 21. Jumpstart, a national organization promoting early childhood education, launched this annual literacy initiative in 2006, in partnership with Penguin and the Pearson Foundation. This year's Read for the Record effort extends beyond the usual one-day commemoration, and will entail a week-long celebration of reading that culminates on October 4. more » »  Tracking Amazon: Rowling and Riordan Battle for Top Spot The day before the much anticipated release of The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling's book has reached #1 on Amazon (topping No Easy Day), and #22 on Kindle. But another hot preorder is right behind Rowling: Rick Riordan's The Mark of Athena is at #3 as of September 26, six days before its pub date. The book has spent 142 days in the top 100 (compared to Vacancy's 83) and is already Amazon's #40 bestselling book of 2012, landing just ahead of Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris and George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons. more » » Barnes & Noble has announced partnerships with Dixons Retail, Sainsbury's, and Waitrose, expanding the reach of its Nook products in the U.K. Dixons is the owner of electronic retailers PC World and Currys and has over 600 outlets. The Sainsbury's partnership will see Nook products carried in over 270 stores, while Waitrose is a large supermarket chain in the U.K. more » » U.K-based Faber and Faber has announced a series of new appointments and a change of structure. Following the recent appointment of Leah Thaxton as publisher – children's, Julian Loose will take on the role of publisher- nonfiction and arts, and Hannah Griffiths the role of publisher - crime, paperbacks. She will also become associate publisher fiction, working closely with Stephen Page and Lee Brackstone to shape the fiction list. more » » At BookExpo America, Maggie Donovan, who had been the conference coordinator on BEA and another Reed event (Global Gaming Expo or G2E) was promoted to conference manager. Mackenzie Lynch has joined BEA taking over as conference coordinator. At ICM, Kristyn Keene and Kari Stuart have been promoted to agent. Keene joined the agency in 2006; Stuart has been at ICM for seven years. more » »
Publisher Tries to Recoup Hefty Advances: Penguin this week filed lawsuits against several prominent writers who failed to deliver books for which they received hefty contractual advances, records show. What Harvard and Harlequin Share: What do Harvard Business Publishing and Harlequin – the publisher of a gazillion romance novels – have in common? More than you might think. Burtenshaw Heads to Booktrust: Alistair Burtenshaw, who stepped down from his post as London Book Fair director earlier this month, is to take over as chair of book charity Booktrust. 'Book Bloggers Are Harming Literature': Peter Stothard, chair of this year's Booker prize judges, says the mass of online opinion about books could kill off literary criticism. Morrissey Rescus Woman in the Strand: It seems the former Smiths front man was at the Strand Bookstore in New York last Sunday, perusing the photography section, when an elderly lady collapsed to to the ground beside him.
 Authors on the Air September 26, 2012: Jim Holt Jim Holt, author of Why Does the World Exist: An Existential Detective Story (Liveright, 978-0871404091), will be on The Colbert Report. more » »
PWxyz Blog Peter Brantley Imagining Enron: CROs and Collective Licensing Ever since the Google Book Search (GBS) settlement, interest in collective licensing of books has mushroomed. Now, a recent international survey by Jonathan Band, PLLC of Policy Bandwidth, “Cautionary Tales [...] more » Barbara Vey American Christian Fiction Writers Conference I attended the American Christian Fiction Writers Conference (ACFW) in Dallas this past weekend. more » Josie Leavitt Rushing the Seasons It's that time of year again. That time when I complain about how we're always rushing the seasons in retail. more » Rose Fox The Land of Guilty Pleasures A comic book called Genreville--no relation!--sends love to the pulps. more » Adam Boretz Audio Reviews Spotlight: Dan Gets a Minivan Today in Audio Reviews Spotlight, we take a peek at the nonfiction side and the audio edition of Dan Zevin's Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad. more »
 Clifford's 50th BirthdayNorman Bridwell, creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog, celebrates the character's 50th anniversary at the 'Biggest Birthday Party Ever' event at Scholastic's headquarters in New York City, Monday, September 24. Photo Credit: Stuart Ramson |     | |||||||||||||||||||||
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