December 4, 2012
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| Ziccardi Leaves S&S Anthony Ziccardi has left Simon & Schuster, where he was deputy publisher of Gallery Books, Threshold Editions and Pocket Books. Ziccardi, who's been at S&S for seven years, and was named deputy publisher of the group in 2009, left the company on Monday. more »  Navigating the floodgates of the app marketplace was at the center of the Media App Summit, presented by Mediabistro and held in New York this week. During a morning panel, Lyle Underkoffler, v-p, digital media for Disney Publishing Worldwide, stressed a direct-to-consumer approach for app developers, encompassing marketing, as well as customer feedback. more »  Worthy Publishing has purchased the Ellie Claire Gift and Paper Expressions imprint from Guideposts, including the Ellie Claire brand and product lines. more »  Karen Berger to Leave DC Comics' Vertigo Imprint in 2013 Karen Berger, executive editor of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint and its director since the critically acclaimed comics imprint began in 1993, is stepping down and will leave the company in March 2013. more »  'Hobbit' Scorches Social Media Circles Comments surrounding The Hobbit as the film adaptation's release date approaches are "astronomical" in social media conversations, and top all other book-related discussions according to CoverCake, whose analytical tools track what is trending on various social media platforms. more »
(Advertisement) 2013 Robert F Kennedy Book Award Call for Submissions Recognized as one of the most prestigious honors an author can receive, the RFK Book Award honors the book that most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's mission. Past winners include: Vice President Al Gore, Toni Morrison, Michael Lewis, and Jonathan Kozol. Click here for more information. » Amazon' s newest Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award will include a number of changes the most notable being that rather than the winners being published by Penguin, they will now be published by Amazon Publishing. The number of categories has also been expanded and, starting January 14, authors can enter the contest in one of five categories—general fiction, mystery/thriller, romance, science fiction/fantasy/horror, and young adult fiction. more » » Open Road has partnered with HowStuffWorks to create a line of e-books drawn from the Web site's most popular content, starting with The End of the World, a book that explores doomsday prophecies and the demise of the world as we know it, and How to Survive the End of the World, a comical and practical apocalypse survival book. more » »  Tracking Amazon: 'Gone Girl' Hits #1 After Price Drop Six months after its publication date, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl has clawed its way back up to the #1 spot on Amazon, bringing Jeff Kinney's latest Wimpy Kid book off its perch. The reason: the print book was dropped to $2.99 as part of Amazon's "12 Days, 12 Deals" sale. more » » Edinburgh University Press, the third largest university press in the U.K., has appointed Oxford University Press as its exclusive agent in North and South America and Canada beginning August 1, 2013. The agreement includes sales, marketing and distribution of all Edinburgh's print books and from August 2014 for all of Edinburgh's e-book business in the Americas and Canada. more » » Regnery Books has named Mark Bloomfield director of sales. He was previously with Harvard Business School Press. more » »
Goodreads Users Pick Best Books of 2012: The Casual Vacancy wins Best Fiction. 1,000 Library Jobs in Jeopardy?: More than 1,000 library staff will lose their jobs in the next 12 months, according to a new survey by the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP). The Value of Second-Hand Bookshops: Telegraph: "As bookshops are displaced by the internet, the author of a new work on serendipity describes the joys of delving in dusty shelves." Fiction Boom Over or Not?: The Guardian: "The general excitement attending new novels during the 1980s has passed, but storytelling is on a roll." Curtis Brown/KDP Partner: Agency Curtis Brown has launched a digital self-publishing program through Kindle Direct Publishing and CreateSpace, in a venture primarily aimed at breaking U.K. authors into the U.S. market.
 Authors on the Air December 4, 2012: Corey Olsen, BeBe Winans Coery Olsen, author of Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547739465), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show. After the segment airs, listen here. BeBe Winans will be on The Jim Baker Show for The Whitney I Knew (Worthy Publishing, 978-1617950841). more » »
PWxyz Blog PWStaff Ron Charles Responds to PW’s Publishing Person of the Year Selection A response to PW's selection of E.L. James. 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 » Elizabeth Bluemle Final Hours! ABFFE Children’s Book Art Auction Last few hours to bid on children's book art for ABFFE! more » Rose Fox Money Flows from the Writer Duotrope will begin charging authors on January 1. more » Adam Boretz Audiobooks Q&A: Brick Shop Audiobook’s Robert Granniss Our Audiobook Q&A steps out of the recording booth and into the studio. more »
 Friedman Meets Miss SubwaysJane Friedman poses with her mother Ruth Lippman, who is holding a copy of Friedman's book Meet Miss Subways, which her mother is featured in. Miss Subways was a beauty contest run by the Subways Advertising committee from 1941–1976. Every month, a different woman was crowned Miss Subways and featured on subway placards throughout the city. The book photographs and interviews former Miss Subways. |    
Vital Source Adds 60 New Publishers Vital Source, Ingram's e-textbook solution for publishers, academic institutions, and students, has announced 60 publishers have added more than 35,000 new digital textbooks and online course materials to the VitalSource Bookshelf platform. These newest publishers join Cengage Learning, Elsevier, Wiley, McGraw-Hill, and more than 200 other publishers that currently make content available through VitalSource Bookshelf. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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