Author Solutions to Get New CEO

May 3, 2013

Penguin Exec Named New CEO of Author Solutions Kevin Weiss, Author Solutions' CEO who helped make the company one of the largest self-publishing service providers in the country, is leaving and will be replaced by Andrew Phillips. Penguin, which bought Author Solutions last year, said Weiss is leaving for a new position to be announced next week. Phillips is a 10-year Penguin veteran who is currently president of Penguin International, based in Delhi. more » O'Reilly Ends TOC Conference Tools of Change, the first industry wide conference to address the impact of digital technology on book publishing, is being discontinued by O'Reilly Media. In a post Thursday afternoon, O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly explained that after TOC 2013, the company realized that "a conference was no longer the best vehicle for us to contribute to publishing's forward movement." more » Lehane Takes Home First Edgar It took 18 years, and 10 books, but Dennis Lehane finally got to take home a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe. At the 67th Annual Edgar Awards Banquet, held Thursday night at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan, his Live by Night (Morrow), was named the Best Novel of the year by the Mystery Writers of America. more » Goodreads Alternative Riffle Goes Live It may have taken a little longer than planned, but the Odyl-powered social media tool for book discovery Riffle, had a quiet launch earlier this week. Originally slated to go live late last year, the once invitation-only site delayed opening until it was populated with plenty of book lists, according to Odyl founder and CEO Neil Baptista. To do that, Riffle added editors in each of 23 categories to help guide the content and to find bloggers to push their content and Riffle to list their books. And it will soon have a way to import Goodreads data. more » Today's Job Pacific Gateway Concessions is seeking a Bookseller. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. B&N Adds Full Google Play Content to Nook Devices Barnes & Noble's Nook Media subsidiary is adding the Google Play content library to its Nook HD and HD+ devices as well as offering Google online services as part of the Nook platform. In addition to adding more than 700,000 Android apps, games, music and other digital content, Nook devices will now offer access to Google's YouTube, Google Search and Gmail services as well as Google's Chrome Web Browser. more » » Van Uum to Open Cincinnati Store in July DK Booksellers founder Neil Van Uum began renovations this week on a 6,500 sq. ft. space vacated by Brooks Brothers in downtown Cincinnati. When the Booksellers on Fountain Square opens in July with a full-service bookstore and café with a creperie and coffee bar, it will be DK's second store. more » » 'Jesus Today' Named Christian Book of the Year The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) has presented its 2013 Christian Book Awards with Jesus Today by Sarah Young named Christian Book of the Year. more » » Fredrick L. McKissack, 1939–2013 Award-winning author Fredrick L. McKissack, who with his wife and partner Patricia created more than 100 books profiling African-American heroes and illuminating aspects of the African-American experience, died of heart failure on Sunday, April 28. He was 73. more » » Job Moves: May 3, 2013 At Gallery Books, Kristin Dwyer has been promoted to associate director of publicity; Alexandra Lewis has been promoted to assistant editor. Christian Blonshine, former licensing and subsidiary rights director for HCI (Health Communications, Inc.) has been appointed to the position of executive v-p. Prior to HCI, Blonshine worked for Titan Financial Group. more » » THE ROUNDUP 10 Weird Things Said in Bookstores: "Excuse me, do you have any signed copies of Shakespeare plays?" ABA 2013 Election Results: Steve Bercu of BookPeople in Austin, Texas, has been elected to a two-year term as ABA president, and Betsy Burton of The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Utah, will serve a two-year term as vice president/secretary. Kafka, Poe & Other Great Procrastinators: "In his letters, Kafka complained that his day job was holding him back, but as Louis Begley argues in his excellent biographical essay on Kafka, this was really just an excuse." Level Playing Field for Self-Pubs: Guardian: At last, a major literary award is opening its doors to indie writers. But does the news fill you with horror or excitement? What It's Like To Interview at Amazon: The company hires "hundreds" of M.B.A.s each year, she says, as well as hundreds of recent college graduates and others with technical backgrounds. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air May 3, 2013: Mark Bittman, Hisashi Nikaidoh Mark Bittman, author of VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good (Clarkson Potter, 978-0385344746), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show. Hisashi Nikaidoh, author of Healing Hearts: A leading pediatric heart surgeon learns about the journey from grief to life from these inspiring mothers of his lost patients (Ambassador International, 978-1620201282) will be a guest on Doctor Radio on Sirius XM, Ch. 81, during the Rehabilitative Medicine show on Monday, May 6 at 6am. more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Can You Guess the Authors by Their Nobel Citations? The most blistering test this side of the Badwater Ultramarathon. more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey RT Invades Kansas City I just arrived in Kansas City for the RT Booklover's Convention's 30th Anniversary. more » ShelfTalker Elizabeth Bluemle The Best Author Letter Ever In which a little girl writes to an author ten years later, and makes her day. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY Edgar Winners The Edgar Awards were handed out last night in New York City to the top mystery authors of the year, who gathered for a group shot.	Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Of Note Open Road and Kar-Ben Partner Open Road will digitally publish, distribute, and market many of Kar-Ben Publishing's titles as read-aloud e-books throughout the world. Open Road will launch this partnership with 11 read-aloud e-books, including It's A Mitzvah, Grover! and three books from the bestselling Sammy Spider series, written by Sylvia A. Rouss and illustrated by Katherine Janus Kahn. more » Podcast: Hot Books Start With 'Hot House' With more books appearing every day, finding a book that's worth the money and time it takes to read becomes a challenge. Listen here. more »

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