May 2, 2013
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| Sales Down, Profits Up at Simon & Schuster Profits at Simon & Schuster rose 20% in the first quarter ended March 31 compared to a year ago, despite a 3% decline in sales. Digital book sales increased 14% and represented 30% of total revenue for the first quarter, compared with 26% in the first period of 2012 with the strongest digital growth coming in the international and young adult areas. The solid first quarter came even as S&S's standoff with Barnes & Noble over terms continues. more »  HarperCollins has expanded its HarperCollins 360 program to the U.K., naming Karen Davis to the newly created role of affiliate publisher of HarperCollins 360. Davis had been head of U.K. sales for nonfiction and Collins. HC began HarperCollins 360 last summer when its U.S. division began marketing titles from the U.K. With Davis' appointment U.S. titles will now be made available in the U.K. more »   Harper Lands Mitch Albom Mitch Albom is leaving Hyperion, for Harper. The bestselling author has left his longtime publisher, signing a three-book deal with the HarperCollins imprint. The first title in the deal, set for fall 2013, is a novel called The First Phone Call from Heaven. Jonathan Burnham, senior v-p and publisher of the HarperCollins imprint, along with executive editor Karen Rinaldi, took North American rights in the deal from David Black at the David Black Agency. more » Penguin's Riverhead Books imprint has acquired a book about the brothers who were recently charged with the terrorist attack in Boston. The currently untitled work, by Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, who wrote the 2012 bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, will, the imprint said, "explain who the brothers were, where they came from, what shaped them, and how they came to do what they appear to have done." more »  Dublin's James Joyce Center Licenses Web Rights to 'Ulysses Seen' In what may be the beginnings of a new business model—at least for libraries and academic institutions—for supporting long-form serious comics narratives, Rob Berry, creator of Ulysses Seen, the online graphic adaptation of James Joyce's literary masterpiece, has licensed the graphic work to the James Joyce Center in Dublin, Ireland, for online display, in addition to selling the center the original artwork in a separate deal. more »
 Erotic Canadian Novel Awarded 2012 Believer Book Award Tamara Faith Berger's novel Maidenhead, published by Toronto's Coach House Books, has been named by The Believer magazine as the "strongest and most under-appreciated" fiction book of the year. more » » The National Book Foundation is accepting entries for the 2013 National Book Awards through June 3. Click through for important dates and a link to the entry form. more » » John A. Ware, president of John A. Ware Literary Agency, died April 27 at age 71. He launched his literary agency in 1978 after working as an agent at Curtis Brown, preceded by eight years as an editor at Doubleday, where he was first to publish Tracy Kidder. more » »
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. Gillian Flynn: On "Gone Girl" and misogyny. New George R R Martin: Coming for Christmas. Chris Beckett Wins Clarke Award: Chris Beckett beat Kim Stanley Robinson and Ken MacLeod to win the UK's top science fiction prize for his novel about an incestuous colony stranded on an alien planet. Vintage Books in Hopkington Closes: After 25 years, Vintage Books, one of the region's few antiquarian bookstores, will close its doors around September.
Authors on the Air May 2, 2013: David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, authors of Lead Wars: The Politics and Science and the Fate of America's Children (University of California Press, 978-0520273252), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show. After the segment airs, listen here. more » »
PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Can You Guess the Authors by Their Nobel Citations? The most blistering test this side of the Badwater Ultramarathon. more » Barbara Vey RT Invades Kansas City I just arrived in Kansas City for the RT Booklover's Convention's 30th Anniversary. more » Josie Leavitt I Miss Seeing Reps I've danced around this topic before, but I just need to come out and say it: I miss seeing sales reps. more »
 Screen-Free WeekWhile in Washington, D.C., as part of the Random House Unplugs campaign, which supports National Screen-Free Week, children's author-illustrators (from l.) Dan Yaccarino, Tad Hills, Chris Raschka, and Bob Staake go one step beyond to promote literacy. |  Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   
HMH Signs Collection Celebrating Boston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced an anthology celebrating Boston called Our Boston. The proceeds from the book, which is subtitled Writers Celebrate the City They Love, will go to One Fund Boston, a charity established to support victims of the recent marathon bombing. The title is schduled for October 1, and will be edited by literary agent Andew Blauner, who has an eponymous firm. Original essays in the collection will be written by, among others, James Atlas, Lesley Visser and Chip McGrath. more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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