January 22, 2013
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| Amazon Children's Publishing Forms Two New Imprints Roughly a year after the Amazon Children's Publishing division launched, it has announced two new imprints. Two Lions will be home to picture books, chapter books and middle-grade fiction, and Skyscape will be devoted to titles for young adults, encompassing works from both established authors and new voices. more »  Random House has unveiled a new Facebook app called BookScout that is intended to offer book recommendations through the social networking Web site. The app, created by RH's digital marketplace development group, allows Facebook users to share favorite authors and titles with their contacts, through their timeline. more »  Osprey Publishing, the Oxford-based military history publisher, has announced plans to launch a new imprint called Osprey Adventures. According to Osprey, the new imprint will focus "on the blurred lines where fact and fiction meet." more »  Canadian Independent House Launches Short Nonfiction Series Toronto's Coach House Books is launching a new series of short nonfiction books on pop culture topics. Exploded Views will be curated and edited by Toronto writer and former Coach House managing editor Jason McBride with the first two books slated to be published in August. more »
 Viz's 'Weekly Shonen Jump' Debuts New Era of Simultaneous Releases Manga publisher and anime distributor Viz Media embarked on a new era of simultaneous Japanese and English manga publishing January 21 after releasing the first issue of the renamed and redesigned Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha. Now called Weekly Shonen Jump, the digital manga anthology will now publish weekly installments of many of Viz's bestselling manga series on the same day they appear in the pages of its counterpart anthology in Japan. more » » Random House will add more than 36,000 titles to Ingram's MyiLibrary e-book platform beginning in February. Titles will be both frontlist and popular backlist titles from all Random House, Inc. imprints and each of their publisher- distribution clients, including Beacon Press, National Geographic Books, North Atlantic Books, Quirk Books, Smithsonian Books, Soho Press, Wizards of the Coast, and many others. more » » Athens, Ga.-based musician and bookseller Craig Lieske died on January 18; he was 48. Although best known as a rocker with Drive-By Truckers, Lieske was a strong supporter of the Avid Bookshop and joined the store's staff in October. more » » Jason Jones, formerly with Thomas Nelson, will be leaving the publisher to join forces with PR by the Book, one of Austin's leading book publicity firms. Jones will be heading PR by the Book's new Nashville office. more » »
Publishers Given Speech Protections: The Iowa Supreme Court has given protections against libel lawsuits to Internet publishers but declined to extend them to average citizens, a ruling that media lawyers called significant Monday. Self-Publishing? Don't Bother: Unless you follow Guy Kawasaki's advice. Amazon Woos Advertisters: With what it knows about consumers. Pippa Middleton's 2nd Book Shelved: Michael Joseph, a division of Penguin, are set to back out of the deal to publish two more books by Pippa Middleton. Sedaris Blesses Film Adaptation: Kyle Patrick Alvarez directed and co-produced a film based on the story "C.O.G."
 Authors on the Air January 22, 2013: Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Sotomayor will be on The Brian Lehrer Show for her new memoir, My Beloved World (Knopf, 978-0307594884). more » »
PWxyz Blog Peter Brantley A Maverick Library Peter Brantley travels to San Antonio to get the scoop on the nation's first first "bookless" pubic library. more » Barbara Vey Pole Dancing at the Library The Huffington Post reported that libraries have been trying new ways to get patrons into their libraries, but this one is a doozy, even in my book. Pole dancing classes! more » Elizabeth Bluemle Famous First Sentences — with Gelt! In the mood for a contest with prizes? Bookseller Kenny Brechner offers a quiz on Famous First Lines -- with Gelt! more » Rose Fox Scary Numbers Did you buy fewer print books in 2012 than in 2011? more » Adam Boretz Audio Bestsellers: Through 01/06/13 New titles shake up PW's audio bestseller list. more »
 The Cover WinnerThe January 14 episode of ABC's The Bachelor, featured contestants who posed with bachelor Sean Lowe to win a three book cover modeling opportunity with Harlequin. Kristy, seen with Lowe in the accompanying cover, was declared the winner and will soon begin a photo shoot for three Harlequin covers—without the bachelor. |    
Stephen King Book Nets $2,850 for Needy Households Earlier this month, Stephen King signed a rare edition of his book The Regulators in order to help keep boilers burning this winter in the households of low-income families in the Ellsworth, Maine area. The book has sold for $2,850, which will provide 740 gallons of fuel oil. The book sale was coordinated by Scotties Bookhouse owner Michael Riggs. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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