February 26, 2013
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| Winter Institute Proceeds, Despite Stormy Weather The annual gathering of independent booksellers proceeded as scheduled, although many booksellers and publishers left early Monday to beat a second snow storm bearing down on Kansas City. Others may be stranded there through today, but all queried by PW considered Winter Institute 8 well worth their while, despite the travel disruptions and delays. more »  In a filing late last week, the U.S. Department of Justice said it will not file an amicus brief after all in the appeal of the Georgia State e-reserves case. The decision not to intervene in the contentious case comes after U.S. attorneys in late January asked the court for more time to consider filing an amicus "in support of appellants (the publishers), or in support of neither party." more »  October was a tough month for publishers with only the adult e-book, digital audio and university press segments posting gains among the major categories. Adult e-book sales rose 40.7% in the month at publishers that report to AAP's StatShot program, with sales hitting $103.7 million. more » Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who is overseeing the lawsuit filed against Amazon and the big six publishers by three independent booksellers, has ordered that all parties attend a scheduling conference March 11 at the U.S. Court House in New York City. In his order, Judge Rakoff said he hopes to have the case go to trial within five months after the March 11 conference. more » Looking to take advantage of the popularity of the A&E television show Duck Dynasty, Books-A-Million is creating Duck Commander displays in all of its stores. BAM! outlets will be selling more than 40 items related to Duck Commander--the family company that is the subject of Duck Dynasty--including duck calls, DVDs, books, t-shirts, hats, and novelties. more »
ComicsPRO Elects Gaul President A new slate of officers was elected at this year's ComicsPRO meeting, including a new president. Thomas Gaul, owner of CornerStoreComics.com and Beach Ball Comics, both in Southern California, replaces Joe Field, of Flying Colors, in the post. Now in its seventh year, ComicPRO is an organization for comic book retailers; about 120 retailers showed up to Atlanta February 21-23 for three days of publisher presentations, seminars and brainstorming sessions. more » »   Columbia University Acquires Complete 'Elfquest' Comics Archive Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the archives of Wendy and Richard Pini's Elfquest, a popular fantasy comic book and graphic novel series first created in 1978. more » » The London Book Fair 2014 will take place at Earls Court from Tuesday, April 8–Thursday, April 10 in 2014. The Digital Minds Conference will take place on April 7. The fair now runs Monday to Wednesday with the digital conference on Sunday. more » » NetGalley and Perseus Books Group have announced a partnership, kicking off immediately, which will allow Perseus and all of its distributed publishers (clients of Perseus Distribution, Publishers Group West and Consortium), to take advantage of NetGalley's digital galley services at a preferential rate, and streamlines the onboarding process for new publishers. more » » Melissa Milsten has been named director, partnerships and business development at Random House, reporting to Allison Dobson. Kimberly Hanson will leave St. Martin's Press to work as an account executive at a PR agency. She can be reached for the time being at kimrhanson@gmail.com. more » » Feature: Sports Books Issue: March 18 Deadline: Feb. 27 Needed: For our sports feature, we are focusing on both new general-interest sports titles as well as sports annuals, reference, and instructional books. Please send title info for such books (pub dates April–July) to Pete Croatto, at petecroatto@yahoo.com, and Mark Rotella, at mrotella@publishersweekly.com. Again, the deadline for info is Feb. 27. »
David Foster Wallace's 1994 Syllabus: "Don't let any potential lightweightish-looking qualities of the texts delude you into thinking that this will be a blow-off-type class." Elizabeth Bishop Paints: See the poet's paintings. Google's Counterattack Against Amazon: Wired: "Google's increasingly aggressive effort to steal online retail from Amazon is turning into one of the most intriguing business battles of the year." Scaling Back Nook: Bad news for publishers? New Pynchon Book Set in NYC: "Bleeding Edge", due in September, takes place in the city's failing 'Silicon Alley.'
 Authors on the Air February 26, 2013: Michio Kaku, Gavin Newsom Michio Kaku, author of Physics of the Future (Anchor, 978-0307473332), will be on The Colbert Report. Gavin Newsom will be on Tavis Talks for Citizenville (Penguin Press, 978-1594204722). more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash How ’50 Shades of Gay’ Became an Overnight E-Bestseller How to fast-track an e-book hit. more » Barbara Vey A Memory of Light Hi There. joysann here. Have you experienced this? This morning I’m looking at a huge audiobook case with 33 disks in it. I have been dying to get this book, and I’m certain I’m going to love it. Yet I’m looking at the box here with trepidation and hesitate to get started. What I’m looking [...] more » Elizabeth Bluemle Our Successors I love it when particularly avid young readers come to the bookstore, the kind about whose parents say desperately, "She's read everything. EVERYTHING. Do you have anything good she hasn't read?" more » Rose Fox 2012 Nebula Award Finalists Nebula-nominated authors are diverse; their publishers are not. more »
 Kennedy at Freeman'sLast week, Dan Kennedy read at his book lunch at Freeman's. Kennedy is the host of The Moth Podcast, as well as a frequent host of The Moth StorySLAMs in New York City. He read excerpts from his forthcoming novel, American Spirit, (which publishes May 28th from Amazon/New Harvest) and was introduced by his editor Ed Park, who was a founding editor of The Believer and is now a senior editor at Amazon. |    | |||||||||||||||||||||
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