December 3, 2012
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| August Adult Trade Sales Rose 11% Sales in the adult trade segment rose 11.0% in August, according to the newest figures released in AAP's monthly StatShot program. The biggest surprise in the month was an increase in sales of mass market paperbacks; helped by a 31.6% decline in returns, sales in the format rose 17.2% in August, although sales for the first eight months of 2012 were down 16.3%. E-book sales rose 34.2% in August, to $118.6 million, close to the 36.9% growth rate for the first eight months of the year. For the first eight months of 2012, sales for the entire adult trade segment were up 10.4%. more »  News Corp. confirmed Monday morning that Robert Thomson, Dow Jones editor-in-chief and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal since 2008, will become the CEO of the new publishing entity that News Corp. is spinning off from its entertainment assets next year. The new company will retain the News Corp. name (the entertainment company is being renamed Fox Group), and will include HarperCollins, all newspaper assets, its new education company plus some Australian broadcasting businesses. more »  With a new round of filings hitting the docket last week, the Authors Guild appeal of Judge Harold Baer's landmark copyright decision is underway. The broad appeal raises a handful of key questions on which the Guild is seeking review by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, including whether the district court erred in finding the scan plan to be fair use. more » Dean Koontz is extending his relationship with his current publisher, Random House's Ballantine Bantam Dell imprint, signing to do six more novels with the imprint. Koontz inked a North American rights deal with president and publisher of RHPG, Gina Centrello, and his longtime editor, Tracy Devine, will continue to work on his fiction. Among the six signed books, one will be the final title in the author's Odd Thomas series (called Deeply Odd), while another will feature Koontz's recurring central character, Christopher Snow. more » 
HMH Appoints Short and Bronfin to Senior Leadership Team Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has appointed Mark Short as senior v-p and head of international markets and Wendy Bronfin as senior v-p, consumer products and marketing. Short joins HMH from Pearson Education and Bronfin from Barnes & Noble. more » » Flat World Knowledge has named Christopher Etesse, former CTO of Blackboard Student Services, chief executive officer, succeeding Flatworld founder Jeff Shelstad. Shelstad, who launched Flatworld Knowledge in 2007, will remain with the company in a strategic role.The change comes a few months after Flatworld changed its basic business model. more » »  'Symbolia,' iPad Journal of Multimedia Graphic Journalism, Debuts Today Launched with $34,000 in grants, Symbolia: The Tablet Magazine of Illustrated Journalism, a digital journal designed for the iPad that specializes in comics and illustrated nonfiction reports, debuts today in the app store. Founded by Erin Polgreen, former managing director of the Media Consortium and a longtime evangelist for comics journalism, Symbolia's inaugural issue is free and the journal will publish six issues a year for $1.99 per issue or $11.99 for a yearly subscription. more » » Christopher Davis, a founding member of Dorling Kindersley, has died at the age of 71. more » »
Thomson-Shore Adapts and Rebounds: Kevin Spall, the president and CEO of Thomson-Shore, says the recession prodded his company ahead a few chapters in the book-manufacturing business. Google, Amazon 'Insulting' Tax Strategy: Margaret Hodge, the chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC), said that more must be done to prevent the "outrageous" practice of businesses generating huge amounts of income in the UK but paying "little or no corporation tax." Book from Google Execs Takes on Web: "The Internet is the largest experiment involving anarchy in history," begins a new book written by two top Google executives, which aims to explain how this experiment will play out in politics, business and even personal lives. Library Opens in Mall: The Newburgh Free Library has a new branch in the Newburgh Mall. Foyles/Bookseller Reimagine Bookstore: Foyles has partnered with The Bookseller to invite customers and industry experts to help design a new flagship Foyles bookshop on Charing Cross Road for the 21st century.
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash 7 Writers Who Died Young Plath, Keats, Kafka. These are the great writers who died by 40. more » Barbara Vey Rose’s Bookhouse: 50 Shades of Naughty Rose's Bookhouse hosted a sold out booksigning that featured erotica authors billed as Naughty & Nice II: 50 Shades of Naughty. more » Josie Leavitt The Return of Sugar Plums The return of sugar plum candies surely means it's the holidays at our bookstore. more » Rose Fox Money Flows from the Writer Duotrope will begin charging authors on January 1. more » Adam Boretz Now Playing: Redirect The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change comes to audio. more »
 'The Joy of Hate' in FloridaAs part of Greg Gutfield's four-state, 15-event tour, the author of The Joy of Hate stopped at Books & Books in Coral Gables, FL. |    
Follett, Maron Named 2013 MWA Grand Masters Ken Follett and Margaret Maron have been chosen as this year's Grand Masters by the Mystery Writers of America and will be presented with their awards at the Edgar Awards Banquet in New York on May 2, 2013. MWA's Grand Master Award represents the pinnacle of achievement in mystery writing and was established to acknowledge important contributions to this genre, as well as a body of work that is both significant and of consistent quality. more » | |||||||||||||||||||||
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