September 13, 2012
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 'No Easy Day' Sees Huge Sales, Topples 50 Shades No Easy Day sold 253,000 copies in its first week on sale at outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan. The numbers were more than enough to place it at #1 on the overall bestsellers list--it sold nearly three times as many copies as Fifty Shades of Grey, the #2 overall book with 86,000 copies sold. No Easy Day's #1 ranking makes it the first time since the week ending April 22 that E.L. James's book was not #1. more »  The number of outlets selling books and the number of titles they offer is about to grow exponentially through two new On Demand Books partnerships with Eastman Kodak Company and ReaderLink Distribution Services. Kodak is working with On Demand to integrate the Espresso Book Machine, currently available in only a handful of bookstores and libraries, with the KODAK Picture Kiosk at 105,000 locations worldwide. At the same time, On Demand is partnering with ReaderLink (formerly Levy) to bring book machines to more than 24,000 retail outlets—primarily drugstores, groceries, and mass merchandisers. more » ADVERTISEMENT  Temporary "Brokeland Records" banners are made to cover the familiar Diesel Bookstore signs for the event. This was Chabon's first signing for his new novel before hitting the road on his book tour, and also a benefit for Dave Eggers' non-profit foundation 826 Oakland. more » Judith Curr, at Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint, bought world rights to a serialized project by Kevin Costner called The Explorers Guild. Rob Weisbach and Fonda Snyder at Rob Weisbach Creative Management brokered the deal for the star, and the series will launch, traditionally, in book format with plans in place to turn the story into an animated series, then live action films. more » HarperCollins announced earlier this week that it had reached new sales terms with its e-tailers, and by September 13 nearly all HC e-books had been dropped to $9.99 across all platforms (including new titles like Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, which went from $18.99 to $9.99 on the iBookstore over the course of this week). The lower prices haven't resulted in HC titles sweeping onto the Kindle top 10 bestsellers list: Solo: A Memoir of Hope by Hope Solo was ranked #1,403; The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva was ranked #131; Telegraph Avenue was ranked #44. more »
John Wiley Inks Interactive Textbook Deal with Kno Continuing to add content from a growing list of textbook publishers, Kno, an educational software developer that creates digital textbooks for the iPad, reached an agreement to produce interactive versions of higher education textbooks from John Wiley & Sons' Global Education division. The new deal includes textbooks from business, engineering, mechanics, organic chemistry, physics, and trigonometry. more » »  Rowling Event Moved to Larger Venue After Ticketing Snafu It was pretty much a given that J.K. Rowling's appearance at Lincoln Center on October 16 -- her only public event in the U.S. to promote The Casual Vacancy -- would be a tough ticket. But the situation became a bit tense for fans when an unauthorized link to purchase tickets to the event went live 12 hours before the official on-sale time. more » » Tal Goretsky will join Scribner as art director. He was previously senior designer at the Penguin Press. Mary Ann Zissimos is senior publicist at HarperCollins Children's Books. She was previously a senior publicist at Abrams. Ben Adams has joined PublicAffairs as senior editor, print and digital books. He was previously a senior editor at Bloomsbury. Tamra Tuller will join the children's editorial group at Chronicle Books as an editor. She was previously with Philomel Books. Mike Underwood has joined Osprey as sales and marketing manager. He was previously with the Wybel Marketing Group. more » »
Best Things About Working in Publishing: Including summer hours and reading on the job. Stop Comparing 'The Wire' to Dickens: "'The Wire' is like a Victorian novel" — this facile, cocktail-party insight has been cropping up a lot lately, although it's hard to see why someone who truly loves both the HBO series about life and crime in contemporary Baltimore and the fiction of 19th-century England would insist upon it. Bertelsmann 'Lacks Growth' in U.S.: Thomas Rabe is pushing for change, arguing that the German media conglomerate does "not have all the skills required" to benefit from the digital age. How Book Clubs Went Indie: Small, intimate but far-reaching online-based book clubs have been popping up everywhere, and their success shows the benefits—and drawbacks—of a changing publishing landscape. 'Long Distance Runner' Goes to Stage: Alan Sillitoe's short story gets an adaptation for the stage.
 Authors on the Air September 13, 2012: Zadie Smith, Judi and Shari Zucker Zadie Smith will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for her novel NW (Penguin Press, 978-1594203978). After the segment airs, listen here. Judi & Shari Zucker, authors of The Ultimate Allergy-Free Snack Cookbook (Square One, 9780757003462) will appear in a double-segment on BetterTV's The Better Show. more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash 9 Unfinished Novels by Great Writers These are the books that could've been. more » Barbara Vey Debbie Macomber Listens to Her Readers PW now has its own YouTube channel. New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber talks to PW about the importance of listening to readers, and why her latest novel, The [...] more » Elizabeth Bluemle The Stars So Far (as of 9/10/12) Start your medal handicapping engines, folks! Here's the updated list of the year's starred reviews for children's and YA books from Booklist, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, the Horn Book, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and VOYA. more » Rose Fox PW Is Hiring! We're looking for a copy editor. Are you the one? more » Adam Boretz Audio Bestsellers: Week of 09.10.12 Shaking up this week's Audio Bestseller List from Publishers Weekly, Kathy Reichs's newly released Bones Are Forever (narrated by Linda Emond) grabbed the #1 spot. more »
 Mejia in MinneapolisMindy Mejia, author of The Dragon Keeper (Ashland Creek Press) gave a reading at her launch party at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis. |    
 Roald Dahl Comes to E Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and several other Roald Dahl classics will be published as e-books by Puffin for the first time in the U.S. on September 13, Roald Dahl's birthday. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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