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NCAC Demands Answers for Chicago 'Persepolis' Ban
The National Coalition Against Censorship continues to demand answers from Chicago Public Schools regarding the decision to ban Persepolis, with a letter and second FOIA request.
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Radical Returns To Publishing Behind Upcoming Film Slate
With two new movies based on their graphic novels coming out—including next week’s Oblivion—Radical Studios is poised to make a return to publishing and an entrance to digital.
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What Is Common Core?
Common Core, the state standards education initiative that is being developed across the country, was the focus of PW's Discussion Series, held at Random House on April 10 in front of a sold-out audience.
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Maria B. Campbell Associates Scouts for Znak and Modan
Maria B. Campbell Associates has announced they are now scouting adult books for Znak in Poland and working with Modan in Israel for both their adult and children’s lists. Founded in 1959, Znak publishes a wide range of Polish and international authors. Modan is one of the three biggest publishing groups in Israel.
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Skyhorse, Start Offer Night Shade Authors New Terms
After some authors reacted poorly to specifics in a potential deal championed by Night Shade Books, which is hoping to sell its assets to SkyHorse Publishing and Start Publishing, the involved parties have come up with new terms.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Brain on Fire' Cracks Top 10
Susannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness was published by Simon & Schuster, but it's the e-book edition that's currently flying high: priced at just $2.99, the Kindle edition is currently ranked #6 overall.
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Bloomsbury Moving to Midtown
Bloomsbury is relocating, and consolidating, its New York City office. On April 29, the publisher will move into space at 1385 Broadway, leaving its current main office in the Flatiron Building (at 23rd Street and Broadway), in space overseen by its distributor, Macmillan.
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Gor Series Gets Reissued
John Norman's fantasy series Gor, which is nearing publication of a 33rd volume, has recevied a new cover treatment by Shefali Randeria, founder of Cirque-Studios in India. The books fell out of print but were brought back in 2000 by E-Reads.
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News Briefs: Week of April 8, 2013
Square Books and Joshua Miller Win ‘PW’ Awards and more
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Robyn Carr: Growing a Midlist Author
Robyn Carr might not be a household name, but she’s certainly a force to be reckoned with on the bestseller lists.
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'Da Vinci Code' Gets Downloaded for Free 500,000 Times
Doubleday reported more than 500,000 readers took advantage of the free e-book download of The Da Vinci Code which included an excerpt from Dan Brown’s forthcoming thriller Inferno (on sale May 14th).
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Podcast: No Such Thing as Used E-Book
While the publishing world learns to live with the idea that e-books may be good for business, after all, a federal district court judge finds there is no such thing as a used e-book. Listen here.
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Cisneros Goes to E
Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, first published in 1984, will be published as an e-book by Vintage on April 30. Vintage Español will simultaneously release a Spanish-language e-book edition.
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Planman Rebrands as Contentra Technology
Planman Technologies, a company in the integrated content transformation solutions field, has been renamed Contentra Technologies.
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Distribution: Skyhorse Moving to Perseus
Skyhorse Publishing has signed a domestic sales and distribution deal with Perseus for both distribution of e-books and print books.
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'PW' Hosts Common Core Discussion
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.
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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.
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Struggling Indie SF Press, Night Shade, Pushes Asset Sale
After years of financial struggles, the science fiction and fantasy publisher Night Shade Books is preparing to sell its assets to Skyhorse Publishing and Start Publishing. That is, if its authors will sign off on the deal.
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'People' Magazine Holds First Book Chat
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.
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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.
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