05/18/2012 @ 07:00PM
Many publishers are rethinking the tried-and-true business book model.
The economy may be rousing from its slumber, but it’s not yet fully awake. Job numbers are improving slowly: the U.S. Department of Labor reported that an anemic 115,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were added in April 2012. Unemployment hovers stubbornly around 8%, refusing to budge much. Logic would dictate that business is a buyer’s—that is, an employer’s—market these days.
05/18/2012 @ 07:00PM
Sweet Science
Since Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Scientific American, both Macmillan brands, announced in fall 2010 that they were joining forces, Amanda Moon, senior editor of what is being called the Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint, and Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina have been culling both of their resources to ready the publication of their first books. To generate buzz for the debut title, the May issue of Scientific American has an excerpt from What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz, which will be released May 22.
05/18/2012 @ 07:00PM
Expanding
After a year of interviews and discussions, DeAgostini began a product test last year, and the company was encouraged enough by the results to launch a major presence in the U.S. beginning with a debut at BookExpo America (booth 2840) and building to a rollout of a full line next year. The company has hired Darren Deguire, formerly with Advance Publications, as general manager, and rented office space on Broadway just south of the Flatiron Building in New York City. The first products have been drawn from material originally published for other markets, but Franks said DeAgostini plans to develop titles that originate in the U.S. as soon as possible.
05/18/2012 @ 05:00PM
Callaway Digital Arts, an interactive developer for the iPad with offices in New York and San Francisco, is shutting down its New York offices and development studio and relocating all of its operations in San Francisco.
05/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
People cannot be prosecuted for posting content constitutionally protected for adults on generally-accessible websites, and are not required by law to label such content that they do post, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson held May 17.
05/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
There are a number of current event/nonfiction titles on Amazon's top 100 list, but the single most popular topic is food.
05/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
The family that is book publishing is preparing for another annual reunion – otherwise known as BookExpo America.
05/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
The names at the top of Amazon's Kindle Singles page are familiar to anyone who's looked at any bestseller list in the last few years, showing that well-known names like Baldacci and DeMille are publishing on the digital short platform, too, and that they may even have an advantage.
05/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
Amazon’s self-publishing subsidiary CreateSpace announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use its publishing platform to distribute their books in Europe for free on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es and Amazon.it.
The Roundup for Publisher News
Publishing news from across the Web
In an open letter to the DoJ published on Digital Book World, agent Simon Lipskar says the government has "a fatally flawed understanding of the economics and history of the emerging e-book industry."
The publisher has reduced the retail prices of e-books to the level of the paperback equivalents of about 2,000 literary titles published in hardback.
Inside University of Nebraska's Bison Books, which publishes four to eight hardcore baseball books per year.
The publisher is trying to handle its debt load.
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| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
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