September 19, 2012
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| Aptara Survey Finds 40% of Trade Houses with E-book Sales Over 10% of Revenue E-book sales accounted for more than 10% of revenue at 36% of publishers that responded to Aptara's fourth annual survey of publishers' e-book operations. According to the survey, conducted in April and cosponsored by PW, 40% of trade houses had e-book sales that accounted for more than 10% of sales, while only 6% of trade publishers said they get no revenue from e-books. The increase in sales was accompanied by an increase in output as 64% of trade houses are now making at least half of their titles available as e-books. more »  In a deal that could herald a new force in book publishing going forward, entertainment media moguls Barry Diller, chairman of the IAC/InterActiveCorp, and film and theater producer Scott Rudin are teaming up to launch Brightline, a multiplatform publishing house, and bringing in former Vintage U.K. and Picador publisher Frances Coady to run it as president and publisher. Brightline will launch with an exclusive partnership with the Atavist, a well-regarded Brooklyn digital startup specializing in publishing multimedia supported nonfiction for the iPad, as well as licensing its digital publishing platform to other digital publishers. more » ADVERTISEMENT  If you thought the DoJ settlement process was contentious, the litigation now heating up in the class action lawsuit will likely take things to a new level. Among this week's filings in the ongoing saga over e-book price-fixing, comes word that Amazon recently filed a motion in a Washington state federal court seeking to "quash a non-party subpoena" served on it by Apple and/or the publisher defendants in the consolidated consumer class action case now pending in New York before Judge Denise Cote. more » Barbara's Bookstore, which has had a presence in Chicago's State Street Macy's (formerly Marshall Fields) for the past decade, has been using its bookstore there as a model to bring books to Macy's locations across the country. In addition to a Macy's in downtown Boston, which now has a 300 sq. ft. book area, Barbara's added 40 stores—from Monterey, Calif., to New Orleans and Philadelphia—over the summer and more are planned for 2013. About half the Macy's locations are branding their book sections with the Barbara's name. more »  Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Launches A Week of Literary Events The seventh annual Brooklyn Book Festival kicks-off a week of literary events that began on Monday and will culminate in a full day of panels and other programming on September 23 at the Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza and nearby venues. This year's festival will feature more than 280 authors, at least 50 "Bookend" events leading up to the weekend. more »
Open Road's Short Shots Grows Richard Ellis, conservationist and author, will see two of his titles published at Short Shots, Open Road's series of titles that communicate an idea or tell a story in short form. In addition to titles from Ellis, Short Shots list includes Fall of the Birds by Bradford Morrow and partnerships for e-books with Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and Seventeen. more » » The National Book Foundation will present its 2012 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Elmore Leonard, and its 2012 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. more » » Unbridled Books has acquired North American rights to The Mistress Contract, an erotic memoir, written by an anonymous couple going under the names She and He. Unbridled will release its paperback edition of the title in January and, in the U.K., Serpent's Tail, which acquired world rights (except North America) from Unbridled, will publish its edition in November 2013. more » » Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, Calif., may not be back entirely—the revamped store will open later this month—but it has already scheduled an active events series and is launching Kepler's Arts & Lectures on September 25 with Salman Rushdie in conversation with Tobias Wolff. Other participating authors this fall include T. C. Boyle, Michael Chabon, and Jasper Fforde. We're delighted to build on Kepler's tradition of offering high-quality literary events to the community, said Praveen Madan, co-owner of both Kepler's and The Booksmith in Berkeley. more » » Julia Pastore has left Crown as senior editor and can be reached at pastore.j.a@gmail.com. more » »
Apple, Publishers Offer EU Settlement: Apple and four major publishers have offered to let retailers such as Amazon sell e-books at a discount, in a bid to end an EU antitrust investigation, the European Commission said on Wednesday. New 'Hobbit' Trailer: Watch the new trailer here. 'Shining' Sequel Gets Release Date: Stephen King announces "Doctor Sleep" will go on sale in September 2013. How To Make a Book Disappear: Jonah Lehrer's discredited Imagine has vanished from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and his publisher's website. Why that's bad news for readers. Asia Reinvents the Bookstore: A Taiwanese bookstore concept eslite stretches from the eighth to the 10th floors in a Hong Kong mall.
 Authors on the Air September 19, 2012: Pamela Peeke, Kate White Pamela Peeke, author of The Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction (Rodale, 978-1609614522), will be on Good Morning America on September 20. Kate White, author of I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Girl Should Know (Harper Business, 9780062122124), will be on the Today show on September 20. more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Stephen King's Strange E-Book History Including an imposter and an alternate-reality Kindle. more » Barbara Vey WW Ladies Book Club I leave tomorrow for Dallas where I’ll attend my first American Christian Fiction Writers Conference. Christian fiction continues to grow in popularity and I’m looking forward to meeting the writers, [...] more » Elizabeth Bluemle Down the Rabbit Hole Flying Pig bookseller Darrilyn is not easily daunted, but a phone call this week tested her mettle. more » Rose Fox Viking Says Yes to #YesGayYA Book Brown & Smith sell the novel that sparked the #YesGayYA furor. more » Adam Boretz Now Playing: Galahad At Blandings Today, I'm listening to the audio edition of P.G. Wodehouse's classic Galahad At Blandings. more »
 Free Press Authors at Half KingFree Press author Mark Kriegel read from his new book The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (Free Press) at Half King. A surprise guest in the audience was actor Andrew McCarthy who will be reading from his memoir The Longest Way Home at Half King on Monday, September 24th. Photo Credit: Meg Cassidy |    
Distribution: Innovative Logistics Signs Two Presses Innovative Logistics has signed agreements with Rare Art Press, London and Pepin Press, Amsterdam, for fulfillment services in North America. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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