October 5, 2012
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| ABA Readies "Thanks for Shopping Indie" In an effort to get the holiday shopping season off to a strong start, the American Booksellers Association is talking up its newest initiative at the fall regionals, "Thanks for Shopping Indie." The program, which is designed to piggyback on the third annual Small Business Saturday, sponsored by American Express, will enable member stores to receive a promotional discount on 10 titles from 20 publishers. Booksellers can use the special pricing to offer something extra to their customers at the holidays. Like SBS, "Thanks for Shopping Indie" starts on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 24, but it extends a week or more. more »  HarperCollins is reorganizing its product development team in the general books group. The moves, which include hiring two new staffers to take on the role of executive director of digital product development, are, the publisher said, intended to "increase product innovation, best-practice sharing, and scaling of successful ideas and projects." more » ADVERTISEMENT  Open Road integrated Media is partnering with Audible to offer a range of Open Road titles in audio format. Under the agreement, titles that Open Road has published first in e-book through such programs as its Author Brand, E-riginals and Publishing Partners programs will be available for purchase at Audible.com starting in December on an exclusive basis. Open Road CEO Jane Friedman said she "look[s] forward to adding hundreds of additional titles on continuous basis" to the Audible program. more »  YA Fans – and Their Favorite Authors – Gather for Austin Festival Close to 3,000 avid readers, many under the age of 16, filled the halls of the Palmer Events Center on Saturday, September 29 for the fourth annual Austin Teen Book Festival. The free, all-day event featured individual speakers and six discussion panels, where fans could hear from, and engage with, the authors themselves, on topics ranging from love and loss ("What Would You Do for Love?"), and thrillers ("The Thrill of the Chase") to fantasy fiction ("We're Not In Kansas Anymore"). more »  Geragotelis, S&S Prepare to Release 'Life's A Witch' Prequel The publishing journey of Brittany Geragotelis, the formerly unrepresented, self-published author that landed a three-book, 6-figure deal after a PW story about her self-published YA novel Life's A Witch, continues as Simon & Schuster prepares to release a prequel to the book called, What The Spell? The prequel will be published in three e-book installments for 99 cents each beginning October 9. more »
Princeton University Press Launches Library of Jewish Ideas Series Princeton University Press and the Tikvah Fund will launch their newest series, the Library of Jewish Ideas, a collection of "accessible, engaging, and authoritative books that will appeal to anyone curious about Jewish perspectives on key areas of human experience, from humor and death to law and language." The first title, Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Jon D. Levenson, will publish on October 17. more » » The Guild of Master Craftsman Publications (GMC) has entered into a distribution agreement with The Taunton Press for Taunton to handle the sales, marketing and distribution of GMC's approximately 150 craft, woodworking and gardening books in North America effective January 1, 2013. Sterling Publishing will continue to fill orders until December 14 and will accept returns until March 31, 2013. more » » The Oct. 8 deadline for publishers to provide information approaches. If you have not already sent us your information on this subject—we are interested in hearing about self-help titles being published through February 2013—please direct your e-mailed submissions as soon as possible to our reporter, Kathryn Livingston, at livwrite@yahooo.com. more » » Lori de Reza has been promoted to director, Crawfordsville operations, overseeing Random House's Indiana distribution center. more » »
Rowling E-Glitch a Cautionary Tale: A formatting error in the initial file downloaded from Amazon and Barnes and Noble caused some e-readers to display the font in a size either too large or too small to easily read. The ensuing uproar has caused publishers and authors to sit up and take notice. Waterstones Begins Branding Push: Waterstones is rolling out a new branding campaign set to emphasise the benefits of shopping in a physical bookshop and underlining its importance as "the nation's leading high street bookseller". The campaign, which launches today, will include advertising, an exclusive anthology and an in-house magazine. Rent Hikes Threaten Forest Books: Rising rents may soon write the final chapter in the story of two vintage bookstores after more than 20 years of book sales in San Francisco. Obama-Bashing Book Bonanza: Though there were a number of successful books lambasting Bill Clinton during the 1990s, anti-Obama books are a much bigger publishing phenomenon. Canongate Books Blames Assange: Edinburgh publishing firm Canongate Books has reported a loss for 2011 which it said was due to Julian Assange's failure to deliver a promised book.
 Authors on the Air October 5, 2012: Timothy Egan, Colin Meloy Timothy Egan, author of PW Pick Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (HMH, 978-0618969029), will be on NPR's Weekend Edition on October 7. Colin Meloy, author of Under Wildwood (Balzer + Bray, 978-0062024718), will be on NPR's "Weekend All Things Considered" on October 6. more » »
PWxyz Blog Peter Brantley AAP: Call Me Maybe The fallout after the Google case settled. more » Barbara Vey WW Ladies Book Club Yesterday I volunteered to serve free lunches to college kids at UW-Milwaukee. It’s such an exhilerating feeling to be around them. Their thirst for knowledge, their whole lives ahead of [...] more » Josie Leavitt "Without Love There Are No Books": Highlights of the Fall NEIBA Conference Once again New England booksellers gathered in Providence, R.I. for our annual conference. The first day was full of conversation, education, and warm greetings from bookselling friends. more » Rose Fox The Future of Medicine Where should one look for good medical SF? more » Adam Boretz S&S Audio Celebrates Tonya Hurley's The Blessed YA author Tonya Hurley celebrated the release of her new series, The Blessed, at St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn. With her was Kara Hayward, the narrator of Simon & Schuster’s audio edition. more »
 Sargent Speaks to BooksellersOn October 3 Macmillan CEO John Sargent kicked off the New England Independent Booksellers Association's fall conference in Providence, R.I., with a plenary session that he asked be "off the record," no tweeting either. He invited booksellers to ask questions and only turned down two during the hour-long dialogue. Pictured here left to right are: NEIBA president Annie Philbrick, owner of Bank Square Books in Mystic, Ct.; Sargent; and Macmillan sales representative Bob Werner, who received this year's Gilman Award for outstanding service. |   
Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday October 5, 2012 Trade book publisher Penguin sets to thaw out relations with libraries, but the move on e-book sales is seen as cold comfort by some. Listen here. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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