December 14, 2012
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| Harper and Rainforest Action Network Collide Over New Warning A new advisory from the Rainforest Action Network that some of HarperCollins's children's books contain fiber from vulnerable rainforests has brought an angry reply from the publisher who challenged RAN to provide HC with the test results. RAN in turn wants HC to provide them with more information about its paper sourcing. more »  The New York Times has launched two digital publishing programs--New York Times short e-books co-published with the digital startup Byliner, and TimesFiles with Vook. more » Four weeks after the four National Book Awards winners were announced, the scope of the awards' influence on sales is starting to take shape. All four winners have experienced sales spikes, but just how much? more » PW spent the week of December 10 monitoring the Amazon Kindle top 10 bestsellers to see if the new e-book policies of three of the big six publishers would affect the charts, but the sales for the week actually showed a decline in sales for e-books with lower, non-agency prices. more »
NAIBA to Launch Pilot Program to Assist Stores Without Reps The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association, which has a board member with no reps for one major house, is looking to remedy lost sales for both booksellers and publishers by setting up a publisher advocate program next season for stores without reps. more » » Beginning the first week of January 2013, point-of-sale data from over 4,000 Walmart locations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico will be added to the 12,000 locations that currently report their sales to Nielsen BookScan U.S. more » » Stokes McMillan's self-published book, One Night of Madness, was named winner of the 2012 Mississippi Author Award, the first time a self-published book has won the prize. Past winners include Eudora Welty, Charlaine Harris, and Kathryn Stockett. more » » Little, Brown has made a host of promotions. In marketing/publicity, Heather Fain has been promoted to v-p, associate publisher and marketing director. She became v-p/marketing director in 2008. Nicole Dewey has been promoted to v-p, executive director of publicity. Recently, she worked on the publicity campaign for The Casual Vacancy, among many other titles. Sabrina Callahan has been promoted to director of publicity, James Patterson. Callahan joined Little, Brown in 2007 and in 2011 became the publicist for Patterson. Theresa Giacopasi has been promoted to online publicity manager. She joined the publisher in 2011 as an online senior publicist. more » » Orbit has made the following promotions: Devi Pillai has been promoted to executive editor; Susan Barnes has been promoted to associate editor; Abby Blackman has been promoted to associate editor at the Yen Press imprint; Wendy Chan has been promoted to designer. In the Random House legal department, Kathy Trager, general counsel has been named executive v-p. Matthew Martin and Anke Steinecke, both associate general counsels, have been appointed senior v-p. At Findaway World, Don Hayes has been named v-p, Playaway products group, and Ralph Lazaro has been named v-p, digital products group. more » »
Lena Dunham is Not Happy: With Gawker's post about her book proposal. Reality TV Reading Competition: "Literary Death Match", a reading competition judged by novelists, actors, comedians, and musicians, has just taped a pilot. Amazon Sales Falling Behind?: Amazon's ability to get orders to your door in time for the holidays may be having an unexpected consequence: Consumers are procrastinating longer than usual to buy presents online. The Atlantic's Best Books 2012: Including "Beautiful Ruins" and "The Receptionist." Apple's Best E-books of the Year: Apple announced its best e-books of the year Thursday. The company has come up with a best-of list at years' end since the launch of the iBookstore in 2010.
 Authors on the Air December 14, 2012: Christopher Bonanos Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid (Princeton Architectural Press, 978-1-61689-085-8), will be on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash 11 Songs Inspired by Books What George Orwell has in common with Radiohead. more » Barbara Vey Virginia Romance Writers When the Virginia Romance Writers asked me to do a workshop for one of their meetings, it was a simple yes for me. My goal is to meet with every RWA chapter in the country. I’m well on the way. But when I checked their website, I found out I was scheduled to talk during [...] more » Elizabeth Bluemle A Plea to Publishers and Distributors A plea to publishers for more careful holiday picking and packing. more » Rose Fox Link Roundup Grand Masters, cover poses, and the Forever War. more » Adam Boretz AudioGO Hosts Kitchen Round Table Lunch Lunch is on AudioGO... more »
 Penn Jillette at Book PassagePenn Jillette appeared at an event at Book Passage in Corte Madera for his book Every Day is an Atheist Holiday. |    
Podcast: Publishing Education in Bits & Bytes The digital tide is high – and rising – at leading publishing education programs. A Publishers Weekly survey finds more courses than ever on metadata and SEO, with the number of graduates finding digital-driven jobs growing, too. Listen here. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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