April 3, 2013
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| Harlequin Cleared In Royalty Case Harlequin has been cleared by the courts in a case filed by three authors who claimed the publisher did not pay them all the royalties they were due on e-books covered under contracts signed between 1990 and 2004. The publisher sought to dismiss the case in October, and on Tuesday Federal District Judge Harold Baer, Jr., ruled in the Canadian house's favor. more »   Random House Acquires Novel by Teen Wattpad Star Delacorte Press will publish e-book and print editions of The Kissing Booth, a debut book by Beth Reekles, a 17-year-old from South Wales. The novel first appeared to high acclaim on Wattpad; with more than 19 million reads, it has garnered more views than any other fiction title posted on the site. more »  At oral arguments in Capitol Records vs. Redigi, the digital first sale case decided this week, Judge Richard Sullivan drew a Star Trek analogy. He asked whether ReDigi was more like a transporter, or a replicator? The problem for ReDigi, and one reason why the case is so fascinating, is that the Internet is both. more » John Wiley has sold more of its remaining consumer publishing assets, completing a deal April 2 to sell its pets, crafts and general interest consumer publishing titles to Nashville-based Turner Publishing. Under the deal, Turner acquired the digital and print assets for approximately 1,500 Wiley titles, including such brands as Howell Book House and Baseball Prospectus. more » R.R. Donnelley will begin embedding electronic communication tools in a wide range of products. The giant printer said it will start adding RFID and NFC tags to such products as retail displays, product packaging, shipping labels, direct mail pieces, catalogs, magazines and more. more »
Gillian Flynn's First Two Novels Get Repackaged Broadway is repackaging Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Dark Places, to be released this month. The new trade paperback editions will come with new jacket art and have print runs of 50,000 each. Flynn's first two books, according to Random House, have sold over 800,000 copies together (print and e-books combined), with over 600,000 of those sales occurring since Gone Girl went on sale in June 2012. more » »  'The Little Prince' Turns 70 First published on April 6, 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's fable about a wise, humble boy from Asteroid B-612 who befriends a stranded pilot has touched the lives of multiple generations of readers worldwide, with more than 150 million copies in print, in 260 languages and dialects. more » » The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) has announced the preliminary program and speakers for Digital Book 2013, to be held in partnership with BEA on May 29-30 in New York just as the BEA conference kicks off. Speakers include Chantal Restivo-Alessi (HarperCollins), Michael Tamblyn (Kobo), Matt MacInnis (Inkling), Ken Brooks (Cengage Learning),and Samantha Cohen (Simon & Schuster). more » » As part of PW's Discussion Series, an open-ended panel discussion on "Trade Books and the Common Core: Where Do They Meet?" will be held on April 10 at Random House from 8:30-11:00. more » »
Why Amazon Bought Goodreads: "The business model is moving further towards word of mouth." Iain Banks Suffering From Cancer: The author's statement: "I'm expected to live for 'several months' and it's extremely unlikely I'll live beyond a year." 100 Literary Rumors: Cormac McCarthy dresses up as "sexy Betsy Ross" on Halloween every year. Maureen Johnson: What I Read: Her first media stop in the morning is her phone; the last at the end of the day is a book. Bar Guest Book Sells for $11,900: Signed by Auden, Garbo, and many more.
 Authors on the Air April 3, 2013: Sheryl Sandberg, Mary Roach Sheryl Sandberg will be on The Daily Show for Lean In (Knopf, 978-0385349949). Mary Roach will be on The Brian Lehrer Show for PW Pick Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Norton, 978-0-393-08157-2). After the segment airs, listen here. more » »
PWxyz Blog Nora E. Derrington From the X-Men to the Greeks of Antiquity: Genre in Contemporary Poetry There's a lot of poetry out there that plays with genre tropes. more » Barbara Vey Amanda Quick: An Auto-Read for Me I can't help but read anything by Amanda Quick. more » Elizabeth Bluemle Exhibits Not to Miss: One Just Opening, One Soon to Close, and One Auction It's a spring filled wtih original children's book art. more » Rose Fox Endings and Beginnings Genreville is now part of PWxyz. more »
 Green at Lonesome PineDon Green, executive director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation and president of the foundation board at the University of Virginia / Wise, signs copies of his new book Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill (McGraw-Hill Education) at Lonesome Pine Regional Library in Wise, VA. UVA / Wise student Zane Sturgill joins the festivities. |    
What's Up at PubIt!? Barnes & Noble has created a stir in the self-publishing community with the e-mail it sent yesterday to publishers and others who have used PubIt!, alerting them to "stay tuned for an upcoming announcement on our next chapter in self-publishing." Speculation has ranged from an increase in the royalty to partnering with another company. more » Khaled Hosseini's upcoming And the Mountains Echoed will be the focus of the first ever People magazine book chat, hosted exclusively on people.com. From 2-3 PM ET on Thursday April 11, Hosseini will be taking questions from People readers about The Kite Runner as well as his other two novels, A Thousand Splendid Suns and his forthcoming And the Mountains Echoed. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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