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January 17, 2013

Publishers Focus on a Complex Future at Digital Book World 2013 The annual Digital Book World conference opened yesterday with a host of industry executives trying to make sense of a new and complex publishing reality. more » Penguin Revamps Book Country, Adds Services, Reduces Cost to Authors Book Country, an online writing community and self-publishing service launched by Penguin in 2011, is relaunching and redesigning the site in stages. The Book Country self-publishing site will relaunch today with reduced fees for each tier of service while adding a free self-publishing tier, higher royalties for authors and plans to eventually add an online bookstore. Citing lack of demand, it is ending its print-on-demand option. By late summer 2013, the site will also relaunch its writing community, opening the site to more fiction genres. more » Johns Hopkins Press Publishes First Instant Book In Response to Gun Violence Johns Hopkins University Press is moving quickly to inform the national debate on gun control by fast-tracking into publication Reducing Gun Violence: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis, which was acquired less than a week ago and is scheduled to be shipped January 28. Reducing Gun Violence is the press' first instant book. more » Berean Christian Chain Poised for Growth Bucking the general trend toward store closings in Christian retail, Berean Christian Stores announced today it is primed for expansion in 2013, planning to double the number of stores it operates in the next 18 months. Cincinnati-based Berean now operates 18 stores in the Midwest, California, and Arizona. more » Today's Job The University of Alabama Press is seeking a Director of Sales and Marketing. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. Kobo Finishes 2012 Strong Kobo has reported that its sales are up, with sales of its E Ink Reader climbing 150% in December, and giving the device company 20% of the global e-reader market. The stats, Kobo was quick to point out, clash with predictions that e-reader sales would decline in 2012. Sales of e-books "nearly doubled," the company said. more » » Haut Named Associate Publisher at Random House Children's; Adamo to Oversee Marketing Barbara Marcus, president and publisher of Random House Children's Books, has announced new responsibilities for two senior executives. Longtime staffer Judith Haut has been appointed to the newly created position of senior v-p, associate publisher, effective immediately, and John Adamo, senior v-p, marketing, will now oversee all marketing activities. more » » Bloomsbury Strikes Deal With 'MasterChef' MasterChef, the reality cooking show on FOX, is going to lend its brand to a series of books that will be published by Bloomsbury. In a deal with Shine 360°, the group that manages the non-broadcast rights of the brand, Bloomsbury will be publishing, for a multi-year stretch, MasterChef books through its Absolute Press imprint. more » » Captain Underpants App Launches Scholastic has announced The Adventures of Captain Underpants app, releasing January 17 for $4.99 in the App Store. In the app, players can read the entire first novel in the series, The Adventures of Captain Underpants, for the first time in color and in high resolution. In addition to full narration, the app includes interactive games. more » » THE ROUNDUP B&N: The Last Big Bookseller Standing: But for how long? Publisher Is ''Excessively PC': A German publisher is being accused of excessive political correctness for removing controversial language from a classic children's book, sparking debate about how to handle outdated and offensive words in the genre. Queen Anne Books to Reopen: Rumors had swirled for months, but now it is confirmed: Queen Anne is getting its bookstore back in February. A Love Letter to Scientific Bookstores: "I found liberation on the shelves and my favorite technical bookstore." The Beginning of Modernism: Joseph Conrad and Sigmund Freud's 1899 books signaled the first stirrings of a literary sea change. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air January 17, 2013: PW Radio This week on Publishers Weekly Radio, Judith Rosen, PW's senior bookselling editor, tells us about how independent booksellers are doing, and Gabe Habash, PW news and Tip Sheet editor, gives us some surprising info on children's and teens' digital reading habits. Listen on SiriusXM Book Radio Channel 80 at 3 pm. more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash The 10 Most Anticipated Book Adaptations of 2013 Gatsby not included. more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey Be a Valentine’s Day Giver When I was a kid, Valentine's Day meant getting and receiving Valentine Cards from all my classmates. more » ShelfTalker Elizabeth Bluemle 2012 Starred Reviews: The Complete Round-Up The complete list of 2012 starred children's & YA book reviews, just in time for awards season! more » Genreville Rose Fox Scary Numbers Did you buy fewer print books in 2012 than in 2011? more » ListenUp Adam Boretz Audio Bestsellers: Through 01/06/13 New titles shake up PW's audio bestseller list. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY Carnegie Gets Awesome Author John Green (l.) headlined a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night, appearing with his brother Hank and several other "special guests," including writer Neil Gaiman (r.). It was all part of what was called "An Evening of Awesome," celebrating the one-year anniversary of the publication of Green's bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars, and included musical interludes by The Mountain Goats, Kimya Dawson, and Hank Green. More than 100 bookstores and libraries participated around the country via livestreaming video. Photo Credit: Andrea Fischman	Of Note Penguin Joins Espresso Book Machine Network Penguin Group (USA) is the latest publisher to make its books available through On Demand Books's Espresso Book Machine's "digital-to-print at retail" sales channel. The arrangement will enable bookstores and soon mass merchandise retailers with EBMs to reproduce all Penguin children's and adult backlist titles, including books from Viking, Riverhead, Dutton, and Puffin, among others more »

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