'Lean In' Starts Fast

March 22, 2013

Sandberg's 'Lean In' Tops Bestseller Chart Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Knopf) was the #1 overall bestseller for the week ending March 17, according to Nielsen BookScan. The book sold 74,000 copies, more than double the #2 book, David Baldacci's The Innocent. Knopf reported that Lean In has sold a total of 120,000 copies, including 50,000 e-books. more » Robinson Has More on Storia, Hunger Games During Thursday's conference call with analysts about third quarter results, Scholastic chairman Dick Robinson not only disclosed that HarperCollins will add hundreds of children's titles to Storia, but also, without getting into too much detail, talked about how the digital sales platform is progressing. He also said the steepest decline in Hunger Games was of the e-book editions. more » Reorg for HMH Kids Starting in spring 2014, HMH is "retiring" several children's imprints and placing them all under one umbrella, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers. more » A New Chapter for NorthSouth Books For the first time in several years, NorthSouth is gearing up to acquire original books by U.S. authors and illustrators, rather than only releasing translations of titles that originated in the Zurich office. more » Today's Job Better World Books is seeking a Market Planning Director - Wholesale. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. Einhorn Wrapping Up Multi-Author 'Summer Soiree' Tour Editor/publisher Amy Einhorn stopped in Los Angeles March 20 while on a unique multi-book five-city tour with her authors Suzanne Rindell (The Other Typist, May), Anne-Marie Casey (No One Could Have Guessed the Weather, June), and Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman (Freud's Mistress, July). more » » 'Wimpy Kid' Expands Into Stationery Starting this fall, notebooks, magnetic pads, and other stationery products based on Jeff Kinney's bestselling Diary of a Wimpy series will be available in stores. more » » Job Moves: March 22, 2013 Sabrina Callahan is now director of publicity for James Patterson Little, Brown and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She has been with the company since 2007. Betsy DeJesu has joined Basic Books as assistant director of publicity, starting today. She brings with her over 12 years of experience, most recently at Oxford University Press where she was a senior marketing manager. Lulu has named the following people to its leadership team: Brian Matthews is executive v-p, strategy and marketing; Gary Feder is general counsel; Shawn Barber is v-p, product management; Arik Abel is director, online marketing; Dan Dillon is director, product marketing; Meg Crawfod is manager, social media marketing. Stephanie Dennis joins Running Press as digital marketing associate. Barry Landis has joined Working Title Agency as a partner. more » » Call for Information: Summer Movie Tie-Ins For movies releasing May 1 through August 31, please submit the following tie-in information to Dick Donahue (ddonahue@publishersweekly.com) no later than March 26. Movie title, Starring (top 3 actors; if animated, voices of), Directed by, Movie release date (month/day), Studio, Book type (e.g., novelization, novel, graphic novel, memoir, screenplay), Book title (even if same as movie), Author(s), Publisher/Imprint What should we know about this movie/book? — interesting/unusual facts, background info, etc. » THE ROUNDUP Google Pulls Plug on Frommer's Print: Google has ceased production and publication of printed guidebooks bearing the Frommer's brand name. Publishing Salaries Poll: "It's tough out here, as these numbers prove. But hey—at least there's books." Bookshop Browsing Vital for Publishing?: Research says so. Chinua Achebe Dies at 82: The Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe, who first made his mark with 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, has died aged 82 . Rakuten Defies European Gloom?: "We're very confident we'll be able to grow in any kind of (economic) circumstance." VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air March 22, 2013: Julianne Moore Julianne Moore, author of Freckleface Strawberry (Bloomsbury, 978-1599901077), will be on Anderson Live. more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Dumb Poetry Is a Good Tumblr "Baby boy, please come to my party in the sky?" more » Beyond Her Book 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 » ShelfTalker Josie Leavitt Book Expo Time It's time to start planning for the annual Book Expo America trade show. more » Genreville Rose Fox Respectful Submission Putting your best foot forward when writing to editors. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY 'Captive in Iran' Launched Tyndale Momentum authors Marziyeh Amirizadeh and Maryam Rostampour spoke at the World Missions conference at Mount Paran Church in Atlanta, Ga., previewing their upcoming memoir, Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph Amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison, publishing on April 2. Pictured (l-r) are Amirizadeh, Greg Clark, Missions and Evangelism pastor at Mount Paran Church, and Rostampour. Photo Credit: Jessica A. Quinn	Of Note CDI College Chooses Ingram's VitalSource Bookshelf CDI College, one of Canada's leading career training institutions, has signed with Ingram Content Group's Vital Source Technologies, Inc. for e-textbook management and distribution. The VitalSource Bookshelf platform has been integrated with the college's learning management system, Pearson LearningStudio, so students and faculty can access e-textbooks online and offline across Windows, Android, and IOS devices. more » Podcast: Copyright Reform Next? Publishers prepare to pack for London, while the Supreme Court sends John Wiley & Sons packing with a copyright-related ruling that the First Sale doctrine applies as well in Bangkok as it does in Berkeley. Listen here. more »

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