November 16, 2012
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 Mary Lee Schneider to Head Follett Corporation Follett Corporation didn't have to look far for its new president and CEO, the first from outside the Follett family in its nearly 140-year history. On November 15, the board unanimously elected one of their own, Mary Lee Schneider, former president of Digital Solutions and chief technology officer at RR Donnelley. Schneider's digital background was cited as key to her appointment as Follett speeds up its digital transformation in the higher education market. more »  Peter Berkery, Jr. has been named the new executive director of the Association of American University Presses. Berkery, who has been v-p and publisher of the US Law division of Oxford University Press, will assume his new position March 1, succeeding long-time AAUP director Peter Givler. more » ADVERTISEMENT  Family Christian Stores, the largest Christian retail chain, with 280 stores in 36 states, has been acquired from its private equity owners by the chain's management team and three investors. The new owners pledge to contribute 100% of Family's profits to Christian ministries. With the change in ownership, Family is dropping its own e-reading device and will start carrying Kobo digital readers. more » Citing the growth in popularity of the EPub format and a decline in demand for other e-book formats, Barnes & Noble is shutting down its Fictionwise.com e-book retailing site and its affiliated sites effective December 4. Originally founded by Scott and Stephen Pendergast in 2001, the former independent e-book retailer was sold to B&N in 2009. more »
Advertisement: Alexander Street Press Is Hiring for Multiple Key Positions As one of the eContent 100 list of companies that matter most to the digital content industry, we're committed to publishing the best content in the best way. We're looking for talented, creative, hard-working individuals to join our growing team. Click here to find out more. MORE » » The Hachette Book Group plans to launch an EPub3 program and will begin by releasing 16 titles in the format, an interactivity and multimedia-focused standard for enhanced e-books, between November 2012 and March 2013. The release marks Hachette's commitment to the format and the house also plans to release all of its standard prose novels in EPub3 by March 2013. more » » Joining a growing number of platforms offering a new generation of app authoring tools, Skyreader Media, a developer of interactive kids media, has announced a beta release of Skyreader Studio, a simple-to-use suite of tools aimed at helping publishers easily create interactive and multimedia digital content quickly and at low cost. Skyreader Studio is aimed at conventional and self-publishers, supports all device platforms and is expected to fully launch in early 2013. more » » The publishers of the four National Book Awards winners are all going back to press following their victories. The Round House by Louise Erdrich, winner of the Fiction award and published by Harper, will now have 100,000 copies in print following its win. more » » Allan Adler has been named general counsel and v-p, government affairs at AAP. Allison Hollett has been hired as U.S. v-p sales and marketing at Osprey Publishing. She has worked for The Taunton Press, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Arcade Publishing, and Little, Brown. more » » Issue: Dec. 17 Deadline: Dec. 5 Needed: Information from publishers with personal finance books coming this winter and spring. What are the platforms? Who are the experts? How do you find your audience. Send info to Natalie Danford at natalie@nataliedanford.com. »
Bezos Named 'Fortune' Man of the Year: Four years after PW named him Publishing Person of the Year, Fortune has picked Jeff Bezos as its Man of the Year. 'Star Trib' Celebrates Local NBA Winners: 'The Minneapolis Star Tribune' touches on why two locals were winners at the National Book Awards this week. English Booksellers Launch New Lit Prize: A U.K. bookseller, along with the British organization the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, has created a new fiction prize for children's literature. Nook HD Getting EA Games: Game company Electronic Arts has announced that it will be bringing two new games to Barnes & Noble's tablet, Nook HD. Pippa's 'Celebrate' Languishes: Bloomberg Businessweek takes on the disappointing sales of the new entertaining book by Pippa Middleton.
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Great Fake Endings to Books Some are better than the real thing. more » Barbara Vey More Christmas Blurbs After seeing my first snowfall of this season, I know it's time for more Christmas books. more » Josie Leavitt Preparing for Battle A bookseller takes a breath before the onslaught of holiday shopping. more » Rose Fox Which Future Are We In? How does past futurism influence the present? more » Adam Boretz AudioGO Groupon Alert Hot deals on audiobooks from AudioGO! more »
 Ugly Christmas Sweater SeasonMembers of the Running Press editorial, design, and marketing departments kick off the holiday season and celebrate the release of Rock Your Ugly Christmas Sweater. Booksellers are encouraged to send a pic sporting their own ugly Christmas sweater for a chance to win a new and tastefully bad sweater just in time for the holidays. Submissions: RPPublicitydepartment@Perseusbooks.com |     | ||||||||||||||||||
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