September 20, 2012
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| Zola Books Begins Rollout of its E-tailing Site Zola Books, the social, retail, and recommendation Web site that aims to bring everything about books to one place, launched on September 20. The social aspects are live, with retail to come in mid-October. more »  Sales and earnings fell in the first quarter ended August 31 at Scholastic, but the publisher said it still expected to meet its financial projections for the full fiscal year. In the quarter, sales declined 7.7%, to $293.6 million, and its net loss increased to $32.1 million from $27.1 million in the comparable period in fiscal 2012. Sales dropped in three of five of Scholastic's operating groups, including the children's book publishing and distribution group were sales fell 8.2% to $71.1 million. more » ADVERTISEMENT  In its second week, sales for No Easy Day fell 30% to 176,000 copies, according to the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan. The numbers were still more than enough to keep it in the #1 spot for all titles--Fifty Shades of Grey landed at #2 with 77,000 copies sold. In its first two weeks, Mark Owen's book has sold 430,000 copies at outlets that report to BookScan. more » Hillcrest Media Group and Dunn Brothers Coffee are partnering to bring books by emerging authors to Dunn Brothers coffee shop customers through an online bookstore, Coffeeandbooks.com, which will have a presence in 50 or 60 of the approximately 80 Dunn Brothers coffee houses located around the country. more » Scholastic has announced an agreement with Albert Whitman & Company to offer a selection of its books on Storia, its e-reading app for kids. Forty-five fiction and nonfiction titles from Whitman will be available on Storia beginning in spring 2013. The new titles supplement the titles from National Geographic and Trajectory that Scholastic has added to its own books on Storia. more »
 IVerse Debuts Exclusive Digital Foreign Rights Deal with Marvel and Archie Noting that more than 50% of their digital comics sales each month are going to international readers, digital comics distributor iVerse has signed a deal with two publishers, Marvel and Archie, to distribute translated comics worldwide. The Marvel deal is a worldwide exclusive for foreign language editions of trades and periodicals. For Archie, iVerse will create apps in China, Japan and India, with other countries gradually rolling out. more » » Educational software developer BenchPrep announced a change in its basic business plan and is switching to a subscription model that will provide unlimited access to its library of interactive courses for a flat fee of $30 a month. The change is expected to make it easier and cheaper for students to study across academic disciplines and take a variety of courses by BenchPrep, which offers a lineup of about 70 interactive courses for high school, college, graduate level and professional certification. more » » Former v-p and senior editor of Knopf Ashbel Green has died at the age of 84. He began at Knopf in 1964 and worked with the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George H.W. Bush, Andre Sakharov, Vaclav Havel, and Ken Burns. more » » PW senior editor of digital media Jonathan Segura hosts PW's monthly webcast which will focus on how to develop tablet and mobile strategies. Joining the webcast is expert and consultant Stephen Ryden-Lloyd, senior v-p of Innodata Consulting. This webcast aims to educate viewers on how to develop a winning tablet and mobile strategy. The webcast will focus on providing detailed and critical elements of profiling content for mobile use and an in-depth look at how content should be deployed to maximize results. The webcast will be held today, September 20 at 1:00pm EDT. For more information on this and other webcasts please visit publishersweekly.com/webcasts. more » » Brettne Bloom has been named a partner of Kneerim & Williams, and the literary agency will now be called Kneerim, Williams & Bloom. She first joined the agency in 2000 after working at The Atlantic. Lottchen Shivers has joined Farrar, Straus & Giroux as associate director of publicity. She has over 20 years of publicity experience, including at Random House, Viking, Henry Holt. Also at FSG, Brian Gittis and Steve Weil have been promoted from publicist to senior publicist positions. At Livingly Media, Inc., Georgia Rappleye will serve as account director, Erin Doyle will serve as account executive, and Chase Dashiell will serve as account manager. more » »
NYPL Revises Storage Plan: The New York Public Library has revised its plan to remove most of the books from its flagship Fifth Avenue research center to make room for a circulating library. Roth vs. E.L. James?: Handicapping the Nobel Prize field. Salman Rushdie: 'It Was Worth It': The writer relives his decade in hiding after an Iranian death sentence over "The Satanic Verses." iPhone 5 Reviews: They're in, and there is surprising unanimity across the board. 'Perks of Being a Wallflower' Reviews: The teen movie is getting thumbs-ups.
 Authors on the Air September 20, 2012: Errol Morris, Richard L. Hatin Errol Morris, author of A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald (Penguin Press, 978-1594203435), will be on The Colber Report. Richard L. Hatin, author of Evil Agreement (Headline Books, 978-0938467335), will participate in a live-in-studio interview on the Rich Girard Radio Show at 8 a.m. Friday, Sept, 21, on station 90.7 FM whose broadcast coverage extends to all of southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash The Best Kurt Vonnegut Book (Readers' Pick) And the winner is... more » Josie Leavitt Book Launch for a Customer All of us in retail have customers we love to see walk in the door. But it's not every day that a good customer writes a book and gets it published. more » Rose Fox The Land of Guilty Pleasures A comic book called Genreville--no relation!--sends love to the pulps. 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 »
 Bertelsmann Outstanding AchievementsOn Thursday, September 13 at the worldwide Bertelsmann management meeting held in their home town, Gutersloh, Germany, Gina Centrello, president and publisher, the Random House Publishing Group, and the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group's Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor in chief, and Tony Chirico, president, were honored with a Bertelsmann Outstanding Achievements Award for exceptional business performance and career achievement at Random House, Inc. From left: Markus Dohle, chairman and CEO, Random House; Gina Centrello; Sonny Mehta; Tony Chirico. |     | |||||||||||||||||||||
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