Bestselling Books of 2013 So Far

April 8, 2013

The Bestselling Books of 2013 (So Far) Eben Alexander's Proof of Heaven and the latest Wimpy Kid title were the only books to sell over 300,000 print units in the first three months of 2013, according to Nielsen BookScan, but neither is in Amazon's top 20 bestselling Kindle titles of the year, showing the disparity between print and e-book sales. more » Zondervan Launches New YA Imprint Zondervan is launching a new YA imprint targeted to the general trade rather than the Christian market. Blink will debut this fall and Zondervan plans to publish five to six titles annually under the imprint. more » Indie E-Book Retailer Books On Board Halts E-book Sales Blaming a combination of deep pocketed competitors such as Amazon and Apple, and the lingering impact of the abrupt switch to the agency model in 2010, Bob LiVolsi, owner of the indie e-book retail site BooksonBoard.com, has halted the sale of e-books at the site and is looking to recapitalize in an effort to stay in business. more » Peter Workman Dies at Age 74 Peter Workman, who founded Workman Publishing in 1967 as a book packager and turned it into one of the country's most successful independent publishers, died April 7 after a battle with cancer. He was 74. His death comes a few weeks after the company announced that his ill health would prevent Peter, who had been suffering from cancer since the fall, from returning to work at the publishing house. more » Today's Job Other Press is seeking a Publicity/Marketing Assistant. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. Gor Series Gets Reissued John Norman's fantasy series Gor, which is nearing publication of a 33rd volume, has recevied a new cover treatment by Shefali Randeria, founder of Cirque-Studios in India. The books fell out of print but were brought back in 2000 by E-Reads. more » » Job Moves: April 8, 2013 Wah-Ming Chang, a long-time production manager at Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, is the new managing editor of Melville House. The company's book blog, MobyLives, has a new managing editor in Alex Shephard, founding editor and editor in chief of Full Stop magazine, who will be running the blog as part of his position as Melville House's new director of digital marketing. more » » THE ROUNDUP The Slow Death of the American Author: Scott Turow: "The global electronic marketplace is rapidly depleting authors' income streams." The View of E-books from the Inside: NY Times: "It is refreshing to see Jason Merkoski, a leader of the team that built Amazon's first Kindle, dispense with the usual techo-utopianism and say, 'I think we've made a proverbial pact with the devil in digitizing our words.'" Inside Mellow Pages: "Lucas Pinheiro and Magda Mortner entered the Mellow Pages Library in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, greeted the others there, and began to look at some of the library's inventory of 1,300 books, many of them from obscure presses or by little-known writers." Nazi-Looted Books: Spell decades of labor for libraries. Dogs in Publishing: If kittens rule the Internet, why do puppies reign in print? VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air April 8, 2013: Daniel Kahneman, David A. Stockman Thinking, Fast and Slow author Daniel Kahneman (FSG, 978-0374533557) will be on The Brian Lehrer Show. After the segment airs, listen here. David A. Stockman will be on The Daily Show for The Great Deformation (PublicAffairs, 978-1586489120). more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Can You Guess These Classic Books From Their Phantom Covers (Round 5)? A perfect score means a golf cart tour of PWxyz's grounds. more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey Why I Love Hard Cover Books Years ago (ok, I was probably in my 20s), I belonged to the Doubleday Book Club. more » ShelfTalker Josie Leavitt Comedy and Authors It's not every comic who has a bestselling author write a column about them the day of a big show. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY Knisley at MoCCA Cartoonist Lucy Knisley holds a copy of her new book, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, a new graphic novel about food and cooking in her life, at MoCCA Arts Fest, an annual festival of small press and self-published comics held at the historic Lexington Avenue Armory over the weekend. Relish, a PW Pick, will be published this month by First Second/Macmillan. Photo Credit: Jody Culkin	Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Of Note WBN Announces Author Kick-Off Events World Book Night has now scheduled a total of 27 events around the country between April 19 and 23 in libraries or bookstores, or in three cases, a local club or a brewery. Of note: the Mad Art Gallery in St. Louis; Tin House's party in Portland; the Cambridge Public Library; and B&N Union Square. more »

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