March 21, 2013
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| Scholastic Suffers from Hunger Pains With sales of the Hunger Games trilogy falling even more than expected in the quarter ended February 28 compared to a year ago, Scholastic this morning reported that revenue for the company fell 18.5%, to $380.5 million, while the net loss deepened to $20.1 million from $10.3 million. more »  St. Martin's Press has announced changes in its marketing and publicity departments, moving from a "format-driven orientation to an audience-and-category-focused orientation." The reorganization will establish four core-marketing teams made up of a combination of SMP's current marketers, publicists and digital marketers that will focus on specific categories and audiences. more »  Open Road Media will use cross-platform technology from Calgary-based Enthrill Distribution for special sales and promotional distribution. more » In a letter sent to free speech advocates yesterday, a lawyer for the Chicago board of education defended the restrictions on students' access to Persepolis. more » Ecco and Major League Baseball Advanced Media have created a new series of enhanced e-books for the Kindle, Nook, and iPad. Called MLB.com PLAY BALL Books, each enhanced e-book will feature 20 minutes of video, plus photos and interactive sections with stats and other elements. more »
S&S Updates Piracy Reports for Authors Simon & Schuster is making available to authors through its AuthorPortal information about infringement and unauthorized copies of their works that the publisher receives from Attributor, the service S&S engaged to help fight piracy. more » » For our April 29 preview to 2013 BookExpo America, exhibitors with special events, in-booth signings, and show specials, including discounts and giveaways, should send such information to Michael Coffey at mcoffey@publishersweekly.com by April 10, with a subject line reading "BEA Specials [Exhibitor name]." For galleys being featured at the show, contact Louisa Ermelino (for adult) at lermelino@publishersweekly.com, and for children's, Diane Roback at childrensbooks@publishersweeky.com (note: deadline for galley info is April 5). As for booth numbers and personnel at the show, PW will rely on a direct feed from BEA. MORE » » Former New England Booksellers Association president and American Booksellers Association board member Daniel J. "Dan" deLellis, 76, died on March 17 after a long illness. DeLellis is best remembered as the book director of the Harvard Coop in Cambridge, Mass., where he worked for 38 years. DeLellis's funeral will be held from the Bedford Funeral Home (167 The Great Rd., Bedford) on Saturday March 23 at 8:00 a.m. more » » Laina Adler has been promoted to v-p, senior director of marketing at HarperOne. She has been with the company for 10 years. Kim Gonzales is no longer with AudioGO as bookkeeper. She can be reached at kimnkri@aol.com. Jill Ovren is no longer marketing and publicity coordinator. She can be reached at jill.ovren@gmail.com. At Chronicle, Kristen Hewitt has been promoted to design director, formats. more » »
Bezos Recovers Apollo Engines from Ocean: Rusted pieces of two Apollo-era rocket engines that helped boost astronauts to the moon have been fished out of the murky depths of the Atlantic by a privately funded expedition led by Bezos. Books Becoming Less Emotional?: Using a special algorithm that identifies the emotional content of certain words and sentence structures, a team of British researchers discovered that, throughout the 20th century, books employed less and less emotional language. Books Aren't Dead Yet: Salon: "Self-publishing fans and the tech-obsessed keep getting it wrong: Big authors want to be in print -- and bookstores." Amazon/CIA Ink Cloud Deal: In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. David Bowie and T.S. Eliot?: In a 1974 interview with William Burroughs, Bowie denied any knowledge of "The Waste Land." But are his lyrics more literary than he admitted?
 Authors on the Air March 21, 2013: Blake Bailey Blake Bailey, author of PW Pick Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson (Knopf, 978-0-307-27358-1), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show. After the segment airs, listen here. more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Dumb Poetry Is a Good Tumblr "Baby boy, please come to my party in the sky?" more » Barbara Vey Joysann’s Interview on CBS Sunday Morning This coming Sunday, March 24, the CBS Sunday Morning news show will be doing a segment on Ellora's Cave Publishing and I, joysann, was there to witness it. more » Elizabeth Bluemle Making the Best of a Lost Event When winter throws an event a curveball, here's how publishers, authors, and bookstores might work together to make the best of a tough situation. more » Rose Fox Respectful Submission Putting your best foot forward when writing to editors. more »
 NYU Launches OzekiLast week, the book launch for Ruth Ozeki's A Tale of the Time Being (Viking) was held at the NYU Bookstore. |    
Amazon Debuts 'Send To Kindle Button' Amazon's new Send To Kindle Button is a new web application that allows users with Kindle accounts to send content they encounter on a website or blog to their Kindle supported e-readers to read at a later time. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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