Best Summer Books

April 22, 2013

Best Summer Books 2013 Here are the books to look out for this summer. Canada Clears Penguin, Random House Merger Canada is the most recent country to approve the Random House, Penguin merger without asking for any changes to the deal. Friday, the Canadian Competition Bureau and the Department of Canadian Heritage cleared the merger without conditions. more » German Court Nixes Selling Used E-books Just weeks after the U.S. District Court in Manhattan rejected ReDigi's bid to resell digital files in Capital Records vs. ReDigi using ReDigi 1.0, the German District Court of Bielefeld ruled that digital books can't be resold by purchasers. Unlike physical work, e-books and digital audio books are not subject to "exhaustion of the rights of the author," according to the ruling. more » Online Sales Fell 8% at Books-A-Million Books-A-Million has never done a big business online, and sales through the Web site fell 8.6% in the fiscal year ended February 2, 2013, the company disclosed in its 10-k filing with the SEC. The decline, to $27.4 million, was attributed to lower sales of digital reading devices which offset higher sales of books and other products. more » Today's Job J. Paul Getty Trust is seeking a Digital Publications Manager. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. L.A. Times Festival of Books Draws Tens of Thousands Tens of thousands of book lovers flocked to the USC campus April 20 and 21 for the L.A. Times Festival of Books, attending panels and listening to authors. more » » BISG's Making Information Pay Set for May 15 BISG's Making Information Pay--a concise, half-day conference--intended to provide useful direction to thousands of book publishing professionals looking to build more profitable businesses through data-first thinking, will take place at NYU's Kimmel Center on May 15, 2013 from 9am-12:30pm. This year's conference includes an appearance by Hilary Mason and 2012 data from BookStats. Full program and registration is here. more » » E.L. Konigsburg, 1930–2013 Esteemed children's author E.L. Konigsburg, a two-time winner of the Newbery Medal and the only writer to have received both the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year, died on Friday at age 83. more » » Job Moves: April 22, 2013 Texas Book Festival has named Lois Kim chief executive and Steph Opitz literary director. Kim was formerly associate director of university extension at the University of Texas at Austin; Opitz was formerly the programs and strategic communications director for CLMP. Shannon Criss has been promoted to associate editor of Harlequin Kimani. She joined Harlequin in 2010 as an editorial assistant. Joan Strasbaugh joins Abbeville Press as senior editor. He was previously publisher of Jones Books in Madison, Wisc. Diana Griffin has been promoted to marketing and publicity manager. She was previously marketing and publicity assistant. Julia Kenny is joining the Dunow Carlson & Lerner Agency as an agent. Previously she worked at the Wendy Weil Agency. more » » THE ROUNDUP Librarians Navigating the Digital Rev.: "Libraries are in the midst of a digital revolution that we will be navigating for years to come." George Saunders & Computers: A complicated relationship. 'Fantasy is Uni-Age': Says Terry Pratchett. Amanda Knox's Memoir: "She's a complete blank," the playwright John Guare once said, trying to explain the public fascination with Amanda Knox. 2013 Indies Choice & E.B. White Awards: The ABA announces the picks. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air April 22, 2013: Michael Pollan, Andy Cohen Michael Pollan, author of PW Pick Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Penguin, 978-1-59420-421-0), will be on The Colbert Report. Andy Cohen will be on The Wendy Williams Show for Most Talkative (St. Martin's Griffin, 125003146X). more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Adam Boretz Behind the Audio with Simon & Schuster In the studio with Holter Graham, Daniel Sharman, and Andrew Solomon. more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey World Book Night US No, this isn’t a night that everyone in the world reads a book.  “World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person.  Each year on April 23, tens of thousands of people in the U.S. go out into their communities and give a total of half a [...] more » ShelfTalker Josie Leavitt Balance During a Hard Day A fourth-grader reminds a bookseller that there is still lots of humanity in the world. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY Seven Stories Celebrates 'Skinned' Seven Stories Press hosted a reading and reception for the launch of Skinned: Selected Poems by South African poet Antjie Krog on Thursday, April 18th. The collection is her first published in North America. Pictured here are (l-r) poet Stanley Moss, publisher Dan Simon, and Antjie Krog.	Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Of Note 'Yellow Birds' and 'Far From the Tree' Lead 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards The Cleveland Foundation has announced the winners of the 78th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. They are: Laird Hunt, Kind One, Fiction; Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds, Fiction; Eugene Gloria, My Favorite Warlord, Poetry; Andrew Solomon, Far From the Tree, Nonfiction; Wole Soyinka, Lifetime Achievement. more »

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