January 7, 2013
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 The Bestselling Books of 2012 Half of the top 20 bestselling books of 2012 in print were either Fifty Shades titles or Hunger Games titles, and only one book not written by E.L. James or Suzanne Collins—Jeff Kinney's latest Wimpy Kid title—cracked the one-million-copies-sold mark for the year. more »  Elsevier, a unit of the global Scientific/Technical/Medical publisher Reed Elsevier, has acquired Knovel.com, an online subscription reference service providing highly technical data primarily aimed at engineers. Founded in 2001 by Chris Forbes, Knovel partners with more than 100 STM publishing partners to delivers technical information and analytical tools to more than 800 institutional clients around the world. more » Barbara Lalicki, whose career in children's book publishing spans more than 40 years, will retire at the end of January. Currently senior v-p and editorial director at HarperCollins Children's Books, Lalicki came to Harper in 1999 during the merger with William Morrow, where she had been publisher of Morrow Junior Books. more » Douglas County Libraries has acquired 10,000 e-book titles from Smashwords, bringing its total number of e-book files owned to 21,000. All of the content purchased from Smashwords, including books in popular genres such as fiction, romance, mystery, and science fiction, is available for borrowing by library patrons. more »
Rosetta Teams With Harvard on Line of Health E-books RosettaBooks has partnered with Harvard Health Publications to do line of original e-books ranging in subject matter from CEO management training to helping children with their sleeping habits. The line will feature eight titles, each with a digital list price of $5.99. The titles are all currently available from Amazon, B&N, Apple and Kobo. The partnership also marks Harvard's first foray into publishing e-book originals. more » »  The United States government is ready for public comments and expects entry of the proposed Final Judgment be filed by no later than May 10, 2013. more » » J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit continues as the #1 book on social media, according to CoverCake, a company that uses analytical tools to track what's trending on social media, its popularity obviously being driven by the movie. Fifty Shades of Grey, which had dropped several spots in November, had a big resurgence to the #2 slot in December, due to the trilogy and its author getting exposure in virtually every 2012 recap article, according to Jeff Costello, v-p of sales at CoverCake: "We noticed a lot of women talking about the book as a holiday gift idea." more » » Allison Devlin has been appointed v-p marketing director at Running Press, replacing Craig Herman. She has been marketing director at Crown, overseeing the Potter Craft, Watson Guptill and Martha Stewart brand publications, and has also been at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, HarperCollins Children's Books and DK Publishing. Devlin will start January 16 and will divide her time between the Running Press office in Philadelphia and the Perseus office in New York. more » » Sarah Hochman has been promoted to executive editor at Blue Rider Press. Doris Cooper has been promoted to v-p, associate publisher for Clarkson Potter. She was previously v-p, editorial director. more » »
The Millions Most Anticipated Books: Including new Nabokov and Tolkien. A Song for Indie Bookstores: Done by the people of Common Good Books in St. Paul. 6 Little-Known Things About Publishing: Nataly Kelly shares a few things you may not have known about publishing your book. How Self-Publishing Ate America: How-to writers are to other writers as frogs are to mammals," wrote the critic Dwight MacDonald in a 1954 survey of "Howtoism." "Their books are not born, they are spawned." D&M Publishers Gets Creditor Extension: D&M Publishers Inc., which filed for bankruptcy protection in October, has been granted a second extension for creditor protection. The Supreme Court of British Columbia has given the Vancouver-based publishing house until Feb. 18 to file a proposal to creditors.
 Authors on the Air January 7, 2013: Kathryn Burak, Laura Wainwright, On the Road At 8 p.m. the Literary New England Radio Show on BlogTalk Radio will feature Kathryn Burak on Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things (Roaring Brook Press, 978-1596437364), Laura Wainwright on Home Bird: Four Seasons on Martha's Vineyard (Vineyard Stories, 978-0982714683), Rick Dale, who blogs at The Daily Beat, as he helps introduce their first Classic Conversation, which this month will be on Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Listeners will have the chance to win Home Bird and Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things. more » »
PWxyz Blog Peter Brantley Digital Lending, In Agreement At last, a straightforward and civil agreement between publishers and libraries. more » Barbara Vey Lesbian Fiction Appreciation Event Books come in all shapes, forms and genres. We all have our preferences, but I've always believed there is a reader somewhere for every book. more » Josie Leavitt Wishes for the New Year A bookseller's list of wishes and goals for the new year. more » Rose Fox Books I Loved in 2012 Fun, deep, tasty SF/F and YA published in 2012. more » Adam Boretz Audio Reviews Spotlight: Silent House A full cast brings Orhan Pamuk's Silent House to audio. more »
 Celebrating StyronLate last month, Jane Friedman and Jeff Sharp, co-founders of Open Road hosted a luncheon for Rose Styron at Michaels in celebration of the launch of her book for Random House, Selected Letters of William Styron. Open Road publishes William Styron's backlist. In the photo are Jeff Sharp, Alexandra Styron, Jane Friedman, director Scott Cooper who is adapting Styron's Lie Down in Darkness into a film for Open Road, Mike Nichols and Rose Styron. |    
Delilah Launches Book Club Famed radio personality Delilah is starting a book club. The radio host, who anchors a nightly syndicated song request program, will launch the new club with Kristin Hannah's Home Front. The club is set to begin on January 8, coinciding with the paperback release of the St. Martins-published novel. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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