November 9, 2012
 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amazon Says Glitch Caused Loss of Buy Buttons Amazon issued a statement this morning saying the loss of buy buttons for e-books from a number of major houses was the result of a "technical issue" in the Kindle store and that all buttons have been restored. During the evening of November 8, buttons from a number of publishers' Kindle titles, including Hachette, Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and HarperCollins, were unavailable. more »  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's trade & reference division has acquired John Wiley's culinary portfolio plus reference works published under the Webster's New World Dictionary and CliffsNotes brands. The acquisition will add about 1,500 titles to HMH. more » Books-A-Million, which has consistently reported solid performances in its children's area, is unveiling a new 8,000 sq. ft. Kids-A-Million department in its flagship store in Birmingham, Ala. on Saturday, November 10. more » Vermont-based app-maker NatureShare has announced the release of a major update to its award-winning Audubon Birds: A Field Guide to North American Birds app, essentially transforming the classic birding bible into a social network for the birder community. more » The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group (RLPG) and the Medical Library Association (MLA) this week announced a new co-publishing partnership that will yield "new book projects" and "explore opportunities in innovative publishing formats and reaching wider audiences." more »
Dahlonega Literary Festival This Weekend Georgia's Ninth Annual Dahlonega Literary Festival, the free festival centered on Appalachian and southern literature, will take place in Dahlonega, Ga. this weekend.Known for its southern hospitality, author panels, and author luncheon, the festival aims to cater to readers, authors, and children. more » » Hurricane Sandy has driven the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) from its office building in lower Manhattan, but ABFFE is continuing its preparations for a Holiday Children's Art Auction that will launch on eBay on November 27. more » »  Launching 'Days of Blood & Starlight' with Days of Touring & Online Promotion On Election Day, Little, Brown released Days of Blood & Starlight, Laini Taylor's sequel to Daughter of Smoke & Bone, with significant fanfare. That day, Taylor began a seven-city tour in her hometown of Portland, Ore., which will include an appearance at the Miami Book Fair on November 11. Her simultaneous blog tour is designed to drum up interest in her new romantic fantasy while keeping the plot a mystery and providing insight into the author's writing process. more » »  'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' It's been 75 years since readers were first introduced to a furry-footed, breakfast-loving hermit named Bilbo Baggins. On December 14, everyone's favorite Hobbit will embark on his first live action cinematic adventure, and buzz has been building in the Tolkien-sphere for some time. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is based upon Tolkien's classic children's fantasy, which takes place in Middle-earth 60 years before the Lord of the Rings series. more » » Laura Gianino has joined Bloomsbury Adult as an associate publicist. She was previously with Penguin. Catherine Felgar has joined HarperCollins as publishing operations director, and she will manage the William Morrow and Ecco lists. She was previously with Cambridge University Press. Tom Miller is now executive editor in the trade & professional reference group at McGraw-Hill Professional. He was formerly an executive editor at Wiley. more » »
Great American Novel Still Relevant?: Salon: "Barbara Kingsolver's new novel reminds us that the genre is about the big journey — and the era, economic disparity." What Does the Penguin/RH Merger Mean?: "If there is a publisher big enough to negotiate better rates in the long run for its authors, that is a good thing. Otherwise, I'm not sure there will be much difference. They'll still spend lots of money on the few books they gamble on and not very much on the rest." Stieg Larsson's Last Letter: The letter his partner, Eva Gabrielsson, found after his death. Turning the Page at Shakespeare & Co.: "My father always used to say, by the time you're 21 you'll be working here, but I was interested in theatre. Then, one summer, I went to work there – and that summer turned into 10 years." 2 Bradbury Works Coming: He contributed "The Book and the Butterfly," an introduction to this year's edition of "The Best American Nonrequired Reading." And he conceived a stark encounter between a young boy and a man he believes is Santa Claus in "Dear Santa," which appears in the holiday issue of Strand Magazine, based in Birmingham, Mich.
 Authors on the Air November 9, 2012: Barbara Kingsolver, Oliver Sacks On NPR's "Science Friday," Barbara Kingsolver will talk about climate change and her novel Flight Behavior (Harper, 978-0062124265), and Oliver Sacks will talk about Hallucinations (Knopf, 978-0307957245). more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Who Has the Better Book Covers: U.S. or U.K.? A look at the book covers on both sides of the Atlantic. more » Barbara Vey Life and Love on the Lam Every once in while you randomly pick up a book and it turns out to be just plain fun. more » Josie Leavitt I Was Wrong I was fairly adamant that Christmas books should not go out until the week of Thanksgiving. Well, I'm here to say I was wrong. more » Rose Fox The Demise of Horror is Greatly Exaggerated Is horror "literary enough"? That's the wrong question. more » Adam Boretz Abraham Lincoln: Audio Edition Listening to the 16th President of the United States more »
 Thriller Writers Support TroopsKathleen Antrim, Michael Connelly, Joseph Finder, Brad Meltzer, and Andy Harp participated in the "Operation Thriller III" USO Tour to the Middle East, visiting eight bases in the Middle East and meeting with U.S. armed servicemen and servicewomen. |    
Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday November 9, 2012 A look at how authors and publishers are turning to platforms like Smashwords that publish and sell e-books, and taking advantage of digitally-devoted distribution services. Listen here. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| To submit pictures of the day, email pics@publishersweekly.com Send editorial questions about this eNewsletter to: jmilliot@publishersweekly.com Send advertising questions about this eNewsletter to: cbryerman@publishersweekly.com For additional assistance, contact us by email or at the address below. Publishers Weekly, Copyright 2012, PWxyz LLC Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to a Publishers Weekly e-newsletter. To unsubscribe, click the link below.  |
|
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten