Cavendish Square Buys 3,000 Library Titles

March 5, 2013

Cavendish Square Buys Library Titles from Marshall Cavendish Cavendish Square, a new educational publishing company founded by Roger Rosen, has signed a deal to acquire the assets of Marshall Cavendish's North American library operation, including the Benchmark, Bookworm, MC Reference, and MC Digital lists. In all, the Marshall Cavendish library lists are composed of over 3,000 print and digital works developed for the K-12 school library and public library markets. more » 'Fifty Shades' Publisher Up at RH Anne Messitte, publisher of Vintage Anchor Books, has been promoted to executive v-p of the Knopf Doubleday Group. In addition to her current duties, Messitte will be, said group chairman Sonny Mehta, "broadening the strategic role she plays in our publishing group" and ultimately looking to "define opportunities and manage change." more » McNally Jackson to Open Store with Objects for Home Office Sarah McNally, who opened McNally Jackson Books in the Nolita neighborhood of New York City in 2004, is preparing to open McNally Jackson Store: Goods for the Study. The new store is set to open in mid-April on Mulberry Street, just steps away from the bookstore entrance. more » Yale Awards $1.35M to Nine Writers The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale announced the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell Prizes, a new global writer's award created with a gift from the late Donald Windham and his partner, Sandy M. Campbell. Nine $150,000 prizes were awarded for outstanding achievement in fiction, nonfiction and drama. more » BEA Buzz Books Announced BEA has just revealed the authors and books that have been selected for this year's Editors Buzz Forums in adult, young adult, and middle grade categories. more » Today's Job Barron's Educational Series, Inc is seeking a SALES REPRESENTATIVE – Mid-Atlantic Terr. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. History of Religion in U.S. Politics Wins Canadian Prize It took historian Andrew Preston nearly 10 years to write Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy, but his efforts did not go unnoticed. On Monday Preston won one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards: the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction. more » » SXSW 2013 Preview What do authors Douglas Rushkoff, Bob Garfield, Mathew Inman, Amy Webb, Nate Silver, and Eddie Huang have in common? All of them, including several editors from Publisher Weekly, will be attending SXSW Interactive, the annual technology festival in Austin, Tex., held this year from March 8–12. more » » Steerforth Debuts Hanover Publishers Services Launched informally in 2010 by Steerforth Press, Hanover Publisher Services acts a subcontractor offering small presses access to distribution by Random House Publishers Services. With the addition of Archipelago Books, a small press that specializes in international literary works, Hanover Publishers Services has 5 clients including Steerforth. more » » Job Moves: March 5, 2013 Alison Law is the new AJC Decatur Book Festival assistant program director, effective immediately. She is an Atlanta-based writer and marketing consultant. Twisne Fan will join Macmillan on March 18 as v-p of trade manufacturing and production. She was most recently the senior production director at Simon & Schuster. At becker&mayer!, Stephanie Swane has been promoted to director of sales and licensing, and Barney Duly has joined as international sales manager. At HMH, Ken Carpenter, currently v-p editorial director, Mariner and also director of Tolkien Projects, now adds editorial director, CliffsNotes to his title, with Cliffs executive editor Greg Tubach reporting to him. Also at HMH, Deanne Urmy has been promoted to senior executive editor. Rux Martin has assumed the title of editorial director, Rux Martin Books. more » » Call for Information: Mysteries FEATURE: MYSTERIES PUB DATE: APRIL 1 DEADLINE: MARCH 18 We are covering Victorian historicals, mysteries set in the U.S. and the U.K. during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901). Please send title info and related PR materials for relevant books to Peter Cannon at pcannon@publishersweekly.com. Also, for children's and YA books, please send info on Victorian mysteries that will be released in 2013 to childrensbooks@publishersweekly.com. » THE ROUNDUP House with Bookshop and Cafe : It's called the Izu Book Cafe and it also doubles as the home of a newly retired couple. Indian Writer Gets $1M for Trilogy: Amish Tripathi, whose advance is thought to be the largest paid by an Indian publisher, taps into the resurgence of interest in Hindu myths. Obligated to Write About Sex?: Modern authors can feel commercially obliged to write about sex, novelist Julian Barnes has suggested. Publisher Drops Librarian Lawsuit: A U.S.-based publishing company says it is dropping at least one of its lawsuits against a McMaster librarian after scholars across North America came to his defense. Apple Rejects Vintage Gay Graphics Book: The book in question is Lust Unearthed by university professor Thomas Waugh (first published in print in 2004). The 320-page book features over 200 images from the private collection of Hollywood costume and set designer Ambrose DuBek. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air March 5, 2013: Elizabeth Graver Elizabeth Graver will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for her novel The End of the Point (Harper, 978-0062184849). After the segment airs, listen here. more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Matthew White The 10 Most Memorable Superhero Deaths Robin has died...again. What other superheroes have met memorable demises? more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey Anniversary Party Postponed I'm sorry to tell you that the Anniversary Bash has been postponed -- but only for a week. more » ShelfTalker Josie Leavitt One Happy Bookcase Finally getting a bookcase just for galleys has revolutionized our store's back room. more » Genreville Rose Fox A Dream Come True An anthology of speculative fiction from the margins of history. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY Pear Press Celebrates Pear Press held a launch party for Dennis Bakke's new book The Decision Maker. Pictured, from left: Carl Pearson, Dani Dean, Jenn Branstetter, Mark Pearson, Amy Hatch, Danielle Zorn, Tracy Cutchlow, and Greg Pearson.	OF NOTE Open Road Agrees with Holiday House Open Road has agreed with Holiday House to digitally publish and distribute selected chapter books by Betsy Byars and 13 picture books by Tomie dePaola. The Byars's titles include The Blossom Family series, while dePaola's Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland will be the first from that author to be released by Open Road, coming out on St. Patrick's Day. more » Ingram Adds Harlequin to MyiLibrary Ingram's MyiLibrary digital platform has added over 12,000 Harlequin titles, including both frontlist and backlist, nonfiction and fiction, across multiple Harlequin imprints. MyiLibrary has over 400,000 titles in total. more »

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