January 30, 2013
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| Amazon: E-book Sales Soared, Print Crawled Bezos: "After 5 years, eBooks is a multi-billion dollar category for us and growing fast – up approximately 70% last year." more »   Jerry Jenkins Launches Self-Publishing Company Bestselling Christian author Jerry Jenkins (Left Behind), a long-time critic of do-it-yourself books, has launched Christian Writers Guild Publishing to help authors publish their works. The program includes education and mentoring. Those applying to the guild's "published" program must submit part of their manuscript for evaluation. If accepted, they follow a six-month course—costing just under $10,000—that includes mentoring by a published author. more »   Could 'Timmy Failure' Spell Success for Candlewick? Candlewick has high hopes for the eponymous hero of Stephan Pastis's Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, on sale February 26. The first children's book from the creator of Pearls Before Swine, a comic strip that appears in more than 600 U.S. newspapers, it centers on clueless, self-confident Timmy Failure and his 1,500-pound business partner, a polar bear named Total, who together run the Total Failure detective agency. Candlewick is calling the $250,000 marketing campaign for the illustrated middle-grade novel its "most robust ever for a debut book." more »  Mantel Wins Costa Award Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies has won another major literary award, taking home the Costa Book Award and its £30,000 prize. Late last year, the novel won the Booker Prize (as did the previous book in her series, Wolf Hall), making Bring Up the Bodies the only book to win the Booker and the Costa in the same year. more » After working in a field she had dubbed "cross-platform consulting," Swanna MacNair has launched a new company, called Electric Yarn, that will be dedicated to developing intellectual property across a multitude of platforms. Electric Yarn, which got a plug at Digital Book World on the panel "Hollywood Meets Publishing," which MacNair appeared on, is, she said, a "next generation transmedia firm." more » 
CUNY Launches Five-Day Publishing Institute The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is launching the CUNY Publishing Institute in June, a five-day intensive course on book publishing led by prominent digital and print publishing professionals. John Oakes, a veteran of traditional publishing and cofounder of the Internet-based OR Books, will direct the Institute. Other headliners include Jane Friedman, CEO, Open Road Media, and Larry Kirshbaum, president of Amazon Publishing. more » » Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan, Jon Klassen's This Is Not My Hat and George Saunders's Tenth of December all jumped into Amazon's top 10 bestsellers on January 30. more » »  2013 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz Coverage Read PW's coverage of the annual awards from ALA, featuring interviews with the newly minted 2013 Newbery, Caldecott and Printz Medalists. more » » Dennis Lee has been promoted to director of business management at Penguin. Since 2009, he has been a business manager at Penguin, overseeing the budgets and P&Ls of many hardcover and trade imprints. Anthony Gosling has been named director of sales at Crossway. Rob Birkhead has been named v-p, client development and creative strategy. Iain Morris has been named v-p of creative at Cameron + Company. He has held positions at DK Publishing, LucasFilm Licensing, and Charles Schulz. more » »
Worst Novelist Ever?: Inside the strange tale of Amanda McKittrick Ros. Excerpt: Sendak's Last Book: "As a kid, all I thought about was death," said Sendak. "But you can't tell your parents that." Mantel's "Middlebrow Triumph": The Guardian: Winning the Costa prize says much about our hard times, but more about British literary culture in the age of the Kindle. The Impact of Shrinking Shelf Space: What happens when you see more erratic sales with some titles selling very well in limited and smaller locations? The Unique Features of Boston Indies: "The store has character to it. If you walk into it, you know that we're about books," said Jeff Mayersohn, owner of Harvard Book Store.
 Authors on the Air January 30, 2013: Jayson Calton and Mira Calton, Michael Bolton Dr. Jayson Calton and Mira Calton, co-authors of Rich Food Poor Food: The Ultimate Grocery Purchasing System (Primal Nutrition Inc., 978-098475517-2), will be on Fox and Friends on Thursday. January 31. Michael Bolton will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for his book The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life (Center Street, 978-1455523658). more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Who is the Greatest American Writer? (POLL) Cast your vote. more » Barbara Vey WW Ladies Book Club The month of January ends tomorrow and so does my month long vacation in warm, sunny Florida. I now know that I definitely want to be a snowbird. Lucky for me, the southwestern Florida RWA has invited me next January, so I have something to look forward to. Can you hear me whining over the [...] more » Josie Leavitt When Customers Need Comfort Books It can be hard, but I feel like it's our job to help our customers through their hard times. more » Rose Fox Link Roundup The World SF Travel Fund, nominating for the Hugos, and more. more » Adam Boretz Audio Review Spotlight: Bruce The Boss comes to audio. And gets a Star. more »
 Mantel Wins (Again)Hilary Mantel won the Costa Book of the Year 2012 award for Bring Up the Bodies, announced January 29. The novel has already won the Booker prize. Photo Credit: Liz Thomson |    
Big Increase in ACX Audio Production Audible announced that Audiobook Creation Exchange—the company's online audiobook rights marketplace and production platform—produced ten times as many audiobooks in 2012 than it did ing 2011, its debut year. Audible said "thousands" of new titles were created, a number that topped the amount of titles from Audible's top three providers. more » Pan Macmillan director of digital and communications Sara Lloyd will chair the London Book Fair's fifth Digital Minds Conference on Sunday April 14. The conference will explore those issues facing publishers within a fully integrated digital environment, including the changing role of the editor and the impact that digital plays on publishing and author brands. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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