October 4, 2012
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| Google, Publishers Settle Lawsuit over Book Scanning It's over—at least for publishers. The Association of American Publishers and Google today announced they have settled their long-running litigation over Google's library book scanning. According to a statement from the AAP, in the settlement Google is said to "acknowledge the rights and interests of copyright-holders," and U.S. publishers can "choose to make available or choose to remove their books and journals digitized by Google for its Library Project." But the settlement of publishers claims does not settle the class action suit filed by the Authors Guild, which Guild executive director Paul Aiken confirmed, continues. more »  Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have finalized their partnership agreement that has created Nook Media, a B&N subsidiary in which Microsoft will hold a 17.6% stake. Nook Media, which did not have a formal name until today, will be comprised of B&N's digital businesses as well as its college stores, and, according to B&N will have a "mutually beneficial relationship with Barnes & Noble's retail stores." more » ADVERTISEMENT  Hachette Book Group executive v-p and chief marketing officer Evan Schnittman has realigned the publisher's sales force, a move the includes the hiring of David Bowers to the new role of senior v-p of sales strategy & operations and the promotion of Chris Murphy to senior v-p of the newly created retail sales department that now includes five sub-departments: National Accounts, CBA, Clients and Nashville, Young Reader Sales, & National Field Force. more » After a quiet build-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair, a book that Reagan Arthur pre-empted has people buzzing. With the fair days away--it opens on October 10--Arthur, for her eponymous imprint at Little, Brown, bought U.S. rights to Sarah Lotz's thriller, The Three, from Hodder & Stoughton in the U.K. The novel, which Hodder is publishing in February 2014, and which RA will release in spring 2014, has also sold in Italy and France. more »  Penguin Divisions Team Up to Buy Self-Pubbed Bestseller 'Easy' In an acquisition that brings together two Penguin imprints, Berkley Books and Penguin Young Readers Group have jointly acquired Tammara Webber's self-published novel Easy. Because the novel has a crossover readership covering teens and adult romance readers, the imprints teamed up to acquire print and e-book rights. Penguin will take over sale of the e-book on October 9 and Berkley will release a trade paperback edition on November 6. more »
Diesel Bookstore Plans 4th California Location in Spring 2013 With stores already established in Malibu, Brentwood, and Oakland, Diesel co-owner John Evans has announced a fourth location that will open in Larkspur, California in the spring of 2013. The new Diesel outlet will be in the Marin Country Mart that was previously know as Larkspur Landing when A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books had a store there. A Clean Well-Lighted Place closed in 2006. more » » Crown Publishing has named Campbell Wharton, who was publicity director for Crown paperbacks and Crown Forum and worked with the Speakers Bureau, associate publisher of Three Rivers Press and Crown Forum. She will report to Mauro DiPreta, v-p and editor-in-chief. With her promotion Crown has made other changes, including hiring Wade Lucas as agent director of the Random House Speakers Bureau; he will report to publicity director David Drake. (Lucas was at the HarperCollins Speakers Bureau.) more » » Gwyneth Stansfield has been promoted to associate publicist at Scribner. She was previously a publicity assistant. Katie Burns has been promoted to senior marketing coordinator at Dutton. At Random House U.K., Rob Waddington has been promoted to deputy group sales director, international. In his new position, he will help spearhead the Random House Group's sales strategy across Europe, Asia and where applicable in North America. Maggie Crawford has joined Open Road as strategic advisor. She was recently a v-p and editorial director at Pocket Books. more » »
What YA's Popularity Mean Digitally: The digital impact of the recent findings that 55% of YA readers are over 18. Lena Dunham Book Bid at $3.6M: Lena Dunham's proposal for the book Not That Kind Of Girl reached $3.6 million last night. Hodgman on Publishing: "Books are also coming to an end. They will still be published for a period of time in order to hold down newspapers in summer houses and to use as door stops." Heim Behind PEN Translation Fund: Michael Henry Heim passed away on Saturday night at his home in Los Angeles, and his wife, Priscilla, has now given permission for us to reveal the source of this gift that has done so much good for so many translators. News of the PEN Translation Fund donor's identity was broken on the Three Percent blog. Amazon Lowers Cloud Drive Prices: The company has announced availability in Italy and Spain.
 Authors on the Air October 4, 2012: Tori Hogan, Dr. Jamie Koufman Tori Hogan, author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Journey into the Realities of International Aid (Seal Press, 978-1-58005-434-8), will be appearing on The Leonard Lopate Show. Dr. Jamie Koufman, author of Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure (The Reflux Cookbooks, 978-098270831-6), will be on The Dr. Oz Show on Friday. October 5. more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash The 10 Most Mentioned Songs in Books What songs are mentioned the most in books? 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 » Elizabeth Bluemle The Books You Can't Put Down We booksellers read a LOT. With standards that are high to begin with, it is a rare treat to come across books that surprise us with their freshness or unusual point of view that we just don't want to put them down. I just finished one of those. more » Rose Fox The Future of Medicine Where should one look for good medical SF? more » Adam Boretz Audiobook Self-Publishing: A Brief Primer If you love audiobooks and have ever thought about self-publishing on yourself, then you need to check out "If You Build it, Will They Listen?" -- a feature story from Publishers Weekly's self-publishing supplement, PW Select. more »
 ABA's First Events Specialty InstituteThe American Booksellers Association's first Events Specialty Institute drew approximately 90 booksellers from throughout the country to Minneapolis Wednesday, where they heard from veteran booksellers and publishing executives on how to create successful events, both in the store and off-site. The lunch program featured, from left, Jynne Dilling Martin, Riverhead Books' publicity director; Karen Fink, Random House assistant director of publicity; and Jason Wells, publicity & marketing director at Abrams Books for Young Readers, speaking about how they work with booksellers on scheduling author events. Bookseller Gayle Shanks (right), the owner of Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona, moderated the session. |    
Three Literary Agencies Sign with Argo Navis The Perseus Books Group has announced that APA Talent and Literary Agency, the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency, and the Irene Skolnick Literary Agency have signed on to Argo Navis Author Services program and will make it available to their authors. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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