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Random House Drops Paula Deen
Paula Deen has lost her publisher. The celebrity chef, who's been suffering from a raft of bad press, has had her first book with Random House, Paula Deen’s New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up, canceled.
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Podcast: Libraries Stay Cool
Libraries still matter in the digital age, it turns out, even if the numbers of e-books on virtual shelves remain limited. Listen here.
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Hogarth Doing Int'l Shakespeare Project
Random House's Hogarth imprint has launched The Hogarth Shakespeare project, which will see commissioned authors writing prose retellings of the Bard's plays.
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Readmill Teams with Ingram's MyLibrary
Readmill, the digital reading platform, is teaming with the Ingram Content Group’s MyLibrary, a library content aggregation platform, to allow library patrons to use the Readmill application to transfer, store and read e-book content across all iOS devices.
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Kindle Worlds Store Opens
Amazon has opened the Kindle Worlds Store and Self-Service Submission Platform.
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AAUP: Bridging Worlds
Nearly 800 people from 10 countries attended the meeting of the Association of American University Presses held in Boston from June 20-22.
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Penguin, Author Solutions Seek Dismissal of Potential Class Action Suit
Penguin and its subsidiary Author Solutions have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against them that alleges fraudulent business practices.
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Random House 'Monitoring' Deen Story
Random House says it is still continuing to monitor the Paula Deen story, but that at present Deen’s first book for the company, Paula Deen's New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up, is still set for an October publication.
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Weltbild Stores Drop Vancouver Publisher
Weltbild faces protests over dropped Canadian publisher Icon Empire Press.
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News Briefs: Week of June 24, 2013
Sales, Earnings Fall at Wiley and more
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Fitzgerald, Stephen King Check Into Algonquin Hotel
A Simon & Schuster package will offer guests the chance to book a stay in a suite in the Algonquin Hotel to enjoy its creature comforts from its well-stocked bookcase of classics and advanced copies of new releases.
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Canadian Council Awards Univ. of Nebraska Press $2.5 Million
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has awarded the University of Nebraska a $2.5 million grant to edit and publish a 17-volume series of the papers of Franz Boas, a pioneer of modern anthropology.
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Day's 'Entwined With You' Tops Charts
The third book in Sylvia Day's Crossfire series, Entwined With You, has sold over 550,000 copies (print and digital combined) in its first week on sale.
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UNC Press To Explore University Press Obstacles Through Grant
The University of North Carolina Press has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York to explore the obstacles and opportunities facing university presses as they seek to incorporate various forms of digital publishing.
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Apple Trial: B&N's Horner Touts Agency Model
Nook Media v-p of digital content Theresa Horner took the stand at the Apple e-book price fixing trial and the government and Apple clashed over questions about the profitability—or lack of it—in the e-book market of 2009-2010.
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New Home for Grove/Atlantic
As of June 24 Grove/Atlantic is moving to new offices. The new address is 154 West 14 Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10011.
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Cue Counters DoJ Claims That the Fix Was In
Apple senior v-p Eddy Cue faced questions on inappropriate contact with publishers, claims that the iBookstore is a failure because of high prices and his description of S&S CEO Reidy, as “a leader,” and that he was “indebted” to her.
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Robert Kennedy Publishing Shuttered
Tosca Reno, president of Robert Kennedy Publishing, has announced that RKP's parent company is closing.
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Hangman's Daughter Series Reaches 1 Million Copies Sold
Amazon Publishing today announced that Oliver Pötzsch, whose Hangman’s Daughter series includes The Hangman’s Daughter (2010), The Dark Monk (2012), and The Beggar King (2013), has become the first Amazon Publishing author to sell one million copies in combined print, audio, and Kindle English language editions worldwide.
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HBRP Moves Quickly to Promote 'The First 90 Days'
"The president of the United States gets 100 days to prove himself; you get 90,” saysMichael D. Watkins in the introduction to the tenth anniversary edition of The First 90 Days. Some might argue that publishers get even less.
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