Macmillan to Test E-book Lending

January 25, 2013

Macmillan to Begin E-book Library Lending Pilot As the American Library Association Midwinter conference kicks off its run in Seattle, Macmillan has announced that it will begin its first e-book library lending program by the end of the first quarter. Using the agency model and working with a number of distributors, Macmillan will offer libraries over 1,200 backlist e-books from its Minotaur Books imprint. At launch, Baker & Taylor, OverDrive and 3M will be selling the Macmillan titles to library systems. Once purchased by a library, the titles will be available to them to lend for two years or 52 lends, whichever comes first. All of the books in the program will have the same digital list price. more » Adult Trade a Bright Spot in September September was not a particularly good month for the publishing industry with steep declines posted by the K-12 instructional materials, higher education course materials, and professional books segments only partially offset by small gains in the adult books and university press categories, according to AAP's StatShot report. Within adult books, e-book sales rose 30.6% in the month, to $103.9 million, while hardcover sales increased 3.1%. Sales of trade and mass market paperbacks fell in the month, but audiobook sales increased in both the physical and downloadable categories at the houses that report to AAP. more » Capstone to Publish Picture Books for the Trade Capstone Publishing Group, which has been aggressively expanding beyond the school and library markets with the launch six months ago of its Capstone Young Readers trade imprint, is adding picture books to the list this spring. Thirteen picture books in print format will be released initially under the CYR imprint; after the first list, the imprint will release four to six picture books each year. more » Stephen King Tackles Gun Violence in Kindle Single On January 25, Stephen King published a Kindle Single called "Guns," an essay about gun violence in the United States and possible solutions. "I think the issue of an America awash in guns is one every citizen has to think about," said King. "If this helps provoke constructive debate, I've done my job. Once I finished writing 'Guns' I wanted it published quickly, and Kindle Singles provided an excellent fit." The e-book is 99 cents. more » It Books to Publish New Robert Evans Memoir It Books has announced plans to publish this summer a new memoir by Hollywood producer Robert Evans, and to republish his autobiography, The Kid Stays in the Picture. The books will be published both in print and in a digital multimedia edition. more » Today's Job Odyl is seeking a Riffle Editorial Intern. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. Bologna Book Fair Establishes New Prize This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, and for the first time, BolognaFiere and the Italian Publishers Association will award the BOP – the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publishers of the Year. The award will highlight creative editorial choices and innovations made during the previous year. more » » Nina Ignatowicz Children's book editor Nina Ignatowicz died on January 19 after a brief illness. She was 75. Ignatowicz began her career in children's books in 1961, when she was hired by Susan Hirschman to be the receptionist for Harper Junior Books; she retired at the end of 2007. Click through to see tributes from Peter Sís and Laura Godwin. more » » Job Moves: January 25, 2013 Laura Van der Veer has been promoted to associate editor at Spiegel & Grau. She joined the publisher in 2008 as an editorial assistant. Emily Bell has been promoted to associate editor at FSG. She joined the publisher in 2010. Stacie Berger has been promoted to v-p of communications at F+W Media. At Simon & Schuster, Liz Doyle has joined the Simon Spotlight/Little Simon team as junior designer. Jeanine Henderson has joined the Aladdin team as senior designer. Jay Colvin has joined the Simon Spotlight/Little Simon team as senior designer. Sylvie Frank has joined Paula Wiseman books as associate editor. more » » THE ROUNDUP Why Amazon Can't Win: When it comes to book reviews. Who Reads E-books?: Handy infographics. Piracy is 'Yesterday's Worry': File sharing and self-publishing are becoming the norm for a generation of writers looking beyond a moribund publishing eco-system. Mila Kunis and 50 Shades: The latest rumors. Flannery O'Connor of Digital Age?: Salon: Ellen Ullman's brilliant "By Blood" reveals that her gothic sensibilities aren't limited to computers. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air January 25, 2013: Dave Barry, Michael Bolton Dave Barry will be on NPR's "Weekend Edition" on January 26 and on the Today show on January 28 for his book Insane City (Putnam, 978-0399158681). Michael Bolton, author of The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life (Center Street, 978-1455523658), will be on CBS Sunday Morning on January 27. more » » BLOGS EVAL ERROR: malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at (eval 41495) line 34. Code: line 1: package tmpevalpackage; line 2: sub doEval { line 3: use JSON; line 4: use LWP::Simple qw($ua get); line 5: use Data::Dumper; line 6: line 7: $ua->timeout(10); line 8: line 9: my(%control,$blog,$count,@sel,$blog_count); line 10: line 11: $blog = ""; line 12: $count = "1"; line 13: line 14: if($blog =~ /^\d+$/) { line 15: @sel = ($blog); line 16: } line 17: else { line 18: &Database::Select('BLOGGER','sequence','',\@sel,'all'); line 19: } line 20: line 21: if(!$count) { line 22: $count = 4; line 23: } line 24: line 25: foreach(@sel) { line 26: my($blog_row,%data,$feed); line 27: line 28: $blog_row = $_; line 29: &Database::GetRow($blog_row,'BLOGGER',\%data); line 30: $data{'url'} =~ s/feed\=rss2//; line 31: line 32: $feed = get($data{'url'} . 'json=get_recent_posts&count=' . $count); line 33: line 34: my $decoded_json = &JSON::decode_json( $feed ); line 35: line 36: print "<a href=\"$data{'url'}\">$data{'description'}</a>"; line 37: line 38: for(my $i = 0; $i < $decoded_json->{'count'}; $i++) { line 39: print "<br>" . $decoded_json->{'posts'}->[$i]->{'author'}->{'name'}; line 40: print "<br><a href=\"" . $decoded_json->{'posts'}->[$i]->{'url'} . "\" class=title>" . $decoded_json->{'posts'}->[$i]->{'title'} . "</a>"; line 41: print "<br>" . $decoded_json->{'posts'}->[$i]->{'excerpt'}; line 42: print " <a href=\"$decoded_json->{'posts'}->[$i]->{'url'}\" class=more>more »</a><br>"; line 43: } line 44: line 45: if(++$blog_count < @sel) { line 46: print "<div style=\"margin-top:18px;height:1px;border-top:1px solid #ebebeb;margin-bottom:18px;\"><img src=\"http://www.publishersweekly.com/images/spacer.gif\" width=1 height=1 border=0></div>"; line 47: } line 48: } line 49: }; line 50: &doEval(); line 51: 1; PICTURE OF THE DAY Sterling Lord and Jane Friedman Literary agent Sterling Lord and Jane Friedman, CEO of Open Road Integrated Media, were at last night's publication party for Sterling Lord's memoir Lord of Publishing, out on January 29th.

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