Four New Titles Make the Top 10

October 25, 2012

Four Debuts Crack Bestseller List Top 10 For the week ending October 21 on Nielsen BookScan, the overall bestsellers chart looked very different than the prior week: four of the top 10 titles were debuts. The new books were The Panther by Nelson DeMille, The Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell, The Twelve by Justin Cronin, and Hidden by P.C. Cast. more » Bloomsbury Has Mixed Six Months Sales at Bloomsbury Publishing rose 2.5% in the six month period ended August 31, to £43.5 million, but pretax profits fell to £0.9 million from £1.5 million. Bloomsbury said shifts in its product mix that now has more emphasis on the academic and e-book markets is making the second half of the year more important than the first six months. E-book sales across all divisions rose 89% in the year to £4.5 million. more » Brain Hive Adds New Publishers to Lending Service Brain Hive, a pay-as-you-go e-book lending service for K-12 school libraries that launched in August, is adding new publishers' titles to its e-books lending library collection. The Minneapolis service is adding e-book titles from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Annick Press, and August House, and now offers a collection of more than 3,000 titles. more » Liveright Gets Excited About Poetry for 2013 While Norton's relaunched Liveright imprint under Bob Weil is mostly focused on nonfiction and edgy mainstream fiction, the imprint's director of publicity Peter Miller is working to build excitement around poetry for the upcoming season by building buzz around its first debut poet: Columbia MFA graduate Adam Fitzgerald. more » Today's Job Chronicle Books is seeking a Sales Manager, Special Markets. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. Distribution: Midpoint Signs Bunker Hill Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with Bunker Hill Publishing, a New Hampshire-based independent publisher. In addition to trade format books, Bunker Hill will release titles in digital form through Midpoint Trade's e-book program. more » » Weil Remembrance Set for November 15 A memorial has been set for Wendy Weil. Details are: Thursday, November 15th at 4:00, All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Avenue (80th St.), reception to follow and all are welcome. more » » THE ROUNDUP Denny's Debuts Hobbit Menu: Including the "Gandalf Gobble Melt." Worst Typos Ever: A new book goes through the worst of the worst. Here are a few. Why Amazon Is Allowed To Remove Access: Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble can revoke access to your e-books, music and software any time they want. Here's why. 'You Have to Be a Monster to Write': Colm Toibin on the blessing and curse of literary fame. Bukowski's Thank You Letter: To the publisher who helped him quit his day job: "To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself." VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air October 25, 2012: Mitch Daniels Mitch Daniels will be on The Colbert Report for Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans  (Sentinel, 978-1595230805). more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Peter Cannon PW Best Books 2012: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn How much should a review give away? more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey WW Ladies Book Club Christmas Books It's time for Christmas books to make their appearance. more » ShelfTalker Josie Leavitt Bookstore as a Village How a bookstore creates and nurtures its own village. more » Genreville Rose Fox In Praise of the Implausible Speculative fiction needs to stop speculating and start dreaming. more » ListenUp Adam Boretz Audio Bestsellers: Week of 10.22.12 We run down the top five bestselling audiobooks. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY 2012 Whiting Award Winners Earlier this week, the 2012 Whiting Award winners were announced at the Times Center in a ceremony that included former recipient Jeffrey Eugenides. From left to right in standing row: Meg Miroshnik, Samuel Hunter, Hanna Pylväinen, Eugenides, Mona Mansour, Anthony Marra. From left to right in seated row: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Alan Heathcock, Danai Gurira, Atsuro Riley, Ciaran Berry.

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