December 11, 2012
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| Baker & Taylor Teams with Findaway to Launch Acoustik Audiobooks Baker & Taylor this week announced a partnership with Findaway World (creators of Playaway) to launch Acoustik—a new mobile platform to enable consumers to buy and download digital audiobooks on their mobile devices. Acoustik, a free app that works on both Apple and Android systems, is currently live and available from selected retailers, and will soon be coming to libraries. Officials say the deal will offer consumers access to "nearly 40,000 titles from a wide range of publishers." more »   After a Strong 2012, DC Comics Looks Ahead Looking back over a year of growth, DC Comics executives point to the continued popularity of The New 52, the wildly successful relaunch of its superhero universe, increased sales of print and digital comics, sales of its controversial Before Watchmen periodical series and a growing list of bestselling hardcover titles as the year comes to end. more »   Controversy Follows Manic D's First Children's Book Manic D, a small press specializing in anarchist publications, is used to attracting negative attention. But their initial foray into children's book publishing – a picture book entitled A Rule Is to Break – is igniting just as much controversy as any of their books for adult readers. more » ReKiosk, the independent online retailer, has landed an exclusive with Julian Assange. The start-up, which sells music and books (largely from indie labels and houses), is the only retailer selling Assange's e-book, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, which OR Books released this week. more »
Tracking Amazon: Agency and Non-Agency Mix in Top 10 The day after S&S joined HarperCollins and Hachette in implementing new e-book agreements with e-tailers, a mixture of titles, both with agency and non-agency prices populated Amazon's top selling titles in the Kindle store. The most notable titles in Amazon's top 10 on December 11 are three Hachette titles priced lower since the "new e-book agreements" were announced for the publisher. more » » In a surprise move, Carol Burrell, editorial director of Lerner Graphic Universe since the comics and graphic novel imprint was launched in 2007, is leaving Lerner to take a senior editorial position at Abrams ComicsArts and Amulet. Burrell will join Abrams in January to work with Abrams ComicsArts executive director Charles Kochman. more » » Linda Coleman is now special sales representative for National Geographic Books Group. She was formerly special sales manager at Square One Publishers. Emma Patterson and Emily Forland, formerly of the Wendy Weil Agency, will be joining Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents as agents. more » »
Kids Apps and Parent Disclosure: Several hundred of the most popular educational and gaming mobile apps for children fail to give parents basic explanations about what kinds of personal information the apps collect from children, who can see that data and what they use it for, a new federal report says. Secret Harry Potter Movie Filmed: Will play in the amusement park. Tolstoy Called 'Emerging Author': Target has named him as someone to look out for. Amazon To Collect Tax in Massachusetts: Amazon.com, the huge online retailer, will begin collecting Massachusetts sales tax on purchases made by Bay State customers, starting next fall, Governor Deval Patrick's office said Tuesday. Why Are Novelists Turning to Co-authors?: Best-selling author Wilbur Smith signed a six-book deal with publisher HarperCollins last week for a reported £15m. But it was also revealed that some of the books are to be written with the help of "carefully selected co-authors", so how common is it for writers to hire them?
 Authors on the Air December 11, 2012: Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell will be on The Colbert Report for The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs (Random House, 978-0679644750). more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Dark Corners of the Book-Related Internet III Including an exploration of the link between writers and suicide. more » Barbara Vey Christmas With Holly I'm always excited when someone I know and admire gets one of their books picked up for a movie or TV show. more » Josie Leavitt Where Does Santa Get Stocking Stuffers? We have a sign board that announces the arrival of our stocking stuffers. This has never been a problem before, until Saturday. more » Rose Fox The Radio Star Announcing Publishers Weekly Radio on SiriusXM! more » Adam Boretz Free Audiobook Alert: God Is in the Manger December's free download from christianaudio. more »
 Pearlman HonoredAuthor Edith Pearlman of Brookline, Mass., attends a December 5, 2012, ceremony in New York, where she was awarded the 2012 Harold U. Ribalow Prize, presented by Hadassah Magazine to an author who has created an outstanding work of fiction on a Jewish theme for her book Binocular Vision. Photo Credit: Hadassah |    
Korea Selected as London Book Fair 2014 Market Focus The London Book Fair and The Korean Publishers Association have announced Korea as the Market Focus of The London Book Fair 2014. more » The Independent Book Publishers Association has launched The Book Publishers Toolkit: 10 Practical Pointers for Independent and Self Publishers, Volume 1 (978-1-938-64600-3), the first in an educational e-book series that will feature publishing how-to articles from the IBPA Independent monthly member magazine. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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