October 2, 2012
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 Sourcebooks Upgrades the Bard with 'The Shakesperience' Digital Editions In the latest effort to use digital technology to transform how consumers, students and teachers engage classic literature, Sourcebooks is releasing The Shakesperience, enhanced e-books that exploit the iPad's touchscreen technology to bring Shakespeare's plays to life in new ways with a rich selection of carefully chosen multimedia and text content. Sourcebooks Shakesperience versions for Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Othello release today, selling for $9.99 via Apple's iBookstore. more »  In a release, library vendor 3M announced that its library e-book pilot with Penguin has gone live. Under the deal, patrons at the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library will now be able to check out a selection of Penguin titles via the 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service. The e-books will be available under a one year license with renewable terms, and will not include new books until six months after publication. The program with 3M comes after Penguin pulled its digital titles from OverDrive in November 2011. more » ADVERTISEMENT   Mamiverse Providing New Source of Information About Latino Books Mamiverse.com, a site offering content catered to Latina mothers, is launching a books section called Mamiverse Books. The books section will feature author interviews and reviews of children's books, including picture books, middle grade, young adult and bilingual titles. Adriana Dominguez, who was manager of the children's division of HarperCollins's Rayo Spanish-language imprint, will oversee the section. more » The Scotiabank Giller Prize announced the five finalists for its annual C$50,000 prize today in Toronto. The nominees are: 419, Inside, The Impostor, Ru, and Whirl Away. more » Barnes & Noble has told any of its stores that have stocked copies of Penny Marshall's My Mother Was Nuts to remove the book from shelves. B&N has a corporate policy to not carry physical copies of books acquired by Amazon Publishing in its stores, but as pointed out on Melville House's blog yesterday, some copies had been turning up in B&N outlets. Any B&N outlets that were carrying the title ordered them on their own. more »
John Wiley to Acquire Deltak.edu for $220 Million John Wiley continues to diversify its business portfolio, reaching an agreement to acquire Deltak.edu, for $220 million. With offices in Denver, Chicago and Orlando, Deltak works in partnership with colleges and universities to develop and support online degree and certificate programs.It had revenue of $54 million in the fiscal year ended September 2012. more » » ADVERTISEMENT  HarperCollins UK has signed with Easypress Technologies to use the book production software developer's new Book Publishing in the Cloud, a new technology platform Easypress claims can cut the costs and time required to produce print and digital titles by as much as 50%. more » » It's Poetry magazine's 100th birthday, and The Poetry Foundation is throwing a huge party befitting a publication that bills itself as "the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world." Poetry's 100th birthday party features a series of literary events set for downtown Chicago throughout the month of October, kicking off October 4 with a book launch party for The Open Door anthology. more » » World Book Night U.S. has some new board members and a new chairman. Michael Pietsch, newly minted CEO of Hachette, has been elected chairman of the organization's board replacing Grove/Atlantic publisher Morgan Entrekin. more » » Longtime agent Wendy E. Weil died September 22 at her country home in West Cornwall, Ct. She was 72. President of The Wendy Weil Agency, Inc., her career as a literary agent spanned over 40 years. Plans for a memorial service will be announced in the early fall. Emily Forland and Emma Patterson and long-time office manager Ann Torrago remain at the agency. more » » Robert Marsh will join Rowman and Littlefield as executive v-p of finance and operations. He was previously CFO of Bloomsbury. Moises Martinez has been appointed sales manager at LéaLA. more » »
Your Brain on E-Books and Apps: The moment when you try to scroll down on a (paper) newspaper. Diaz, Mengestu Win MacArthur Awards: Junot Diaz and Dinaw Mengestu are the two writers in this year's crop. Lena Dunham's $1 Million Book: Her representation is soliciting bids, with a floor of $1 million. Publisher/Start-up Antipathy : Andrew Rhomberg: "It's not true that all publishers don't like working with start-ups, but as the founder of one such start-up in the publishing world, Jellybooks, I can tell you firsthand that what might seem like a home-run partnership doesn't always come to fruition." 5 Grief Stages After Book Publication: "Sorry, Mom, I can't talk long. Terry Gross is likely to call at any time and I imagine will want instructions on how to pronounce my name."
 Authors on the Air October 2, 2012: Lawrence Norfolk, Salvator J. La Mastra Lawrence Norfolk, author of John Saturnall's Feast (Grove, 978-0802120519), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show. After the segment airs, listen here. Salvator J. La Mastra V, author of 2012 for Twentysomethings: A Young Voter's Guide to the 2012 Elections (Brown Books Publishing Group, 978-1612540580), will be on the Mancow Muller Show on Wednesday, October 3 at 6:30am central. more » »
PWxyz Blog Peter Brantley Working around the publishing industry Swissnex, a private/public effort of the Swiss government, has hosted some amazing salons with Science Online Bay Area on new forms of publishing. This past Thursday night, they brought together [...] more » Barbara Vey Per Jon Stewart, "Read a F**king Book" I was watching The Daily Show the other night and Jon Stewart made a reference to the book Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes. He immediately told his audience to [...] more » Josie Leavitt A Different Kind of Community Outreach When I'm not working at the bookstore, I'm a professional stand-up comic. more » Rose Fox The Future of Medicine Where should one look for good medical SF? more » Adam Boretz Audio Bestsellers: Week of 10.01.12 After dropping to #2 last week, Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer's No Easy Day (narrated by Holter Graham for Penguin Audio) reclaims the #1 spot this week on PW's Audio Bestseller List. more »
 Trillin Wins Thurber PrizeCalvin Trillin won the 2012 Thurber Prize for American Humor, presented Monday night at Carolines on Broadway in New York. The humorist, who is about to celebrate 50 years as a staff writer for The New Yorker and is The Nation's "Deadline Poet" won for his latest collection, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff (Random House). He is pictured here at Carolines with his sister, Sukey Fox. The Thurber Prize for American Humor is presented by Thurber House, the national, nonprofit literary center located in the boyhood home of author, humorist and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber in Columbus, Ohio. Photo Credit: Leslie Miller |    
 Tracking Amazon: Sylvia Day Hits Number One The second book in Sylvia Day's Crossfire series, Reflected in You (Berkley), was released as an e-book on October 2, with the print edition to follow on October 23. On its e-book release date, the title is #1 on the Kindle bestseller list, knocking On Dublin Street off the top spot. The print edition is currently #16 and has already spent 96 days in the top 100. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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