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New E-book Series Penguin Tracks Launches with Ferguson
Penguin will begin its new Penguin Tracks e-book series with Niall Ferguson's The Abyss, the first section of his book The War of the World, selling for $3.99. Penguin Tracks is designed to return backlist titles by well-known authors and award-winning works to an entirely new audience.
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No Sales Boom for Broadwell's Petraeus Book
According to Nielsen BookScan, Paula Broadwell's All In sold 74 copies for the week ending November 11.
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Abrams Reorganizes Adult Management Group
Abrams has reorganized its adult group management team in a move aimed at more aggressively exploiting the illustrated book publisher’s assets in the digital marketplace and expanding internationally.
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S&S Pushing Up Petraeus Book
Simon & Schuster is bumping up, and spicing up, its forthcoming David Petraeus book. Fred Kaplan's The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War is now set for January 2, with a new postscript about the former CIA chief's recent resignation.
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Amazon Best Books 2012 Revealed
Amazon has released its list of the top 100 books of 2012, as well as top 10 lists in over two dozen categories, from children's books to celebrity picks. The top 10 includes Louise Erdrich, Kevin Powers, and Gillian Flynn.
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Scholastic to Donate 1 Million Books to Sandy Relief
Scholastic has announced that it will donate 1 million books to schools and libraries hard hit by superstorm Sandy. The company will also make available free to teachers online lesson plans and activities.
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S&S Gives Hurricane Relief
Simon & Schuster has offered 500 "best of" titles to any public or school library damaged by Hurricane Sandy in order to help in the restoration of their collections.
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Melville House Goes Subscription for Backlist Series
The independent publisher Melville House is hoping to entice readers to its classics series, The Art of the Novella, through a subscription offer that gives readers both print and digital copies.
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PW Panel on Cookbook Set for Nov. 16
Join PW for Breakfast with our Discussion Series on Nov 16th: "The Digital Kitchen: Adapting Cookbooks in the App Age."
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YUP Creates POD Program for Out-of-Print Titles
Yale University Press has launched a print on demand program for its art and architecture titles, featuring 140 out of print books originally published by the Metropolitan Museum.
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Distribution: Viz Renews with S&S
Viz Media has renewed its distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster under which S&S will continue to manage distribution for all of Viz Media’s imprints.
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Petraeus Biographer Had Unique Access
CIA director David Petraeus resigned Friday after admitting he had an affair with his biographer.
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News Briefs: Week of November 12, 2012
S&S Quarter Down 5% and more
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday November 9, 2012
A look at how authors and publishers are turning to platforms like Smashwords that publish and sell e-books, and taking advantage of digitally-devoted distribution services. Listen here.
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Rowman & Littlefield, Medical Library Association Strike Publishing Agreement
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group (RLPG) and the Medical Library Association (MLA) this week announced a new co-publishing partnership that will yield “new book projects” and “explore opportunities in innovative publishing formats and reaching wider audiences.”
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Amazon Says Glitch Caused Loss of Buy Buttons
Amazon issued a statement this morning saying the loss of buy buttons for e-books from a number of major houses was the result of a "technical issue" and that all buttons have been restored.
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Children's Art Auction Battles Through Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy has driven the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) from its office building in lower Manhattan, but ABFFE is continuing its preparations for a Holiday Children’s Art Auction that will launch on eBay on Nov. 27.
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Tracking Amazon: Nate Silver Can't Top Wimpy Kid
Despite all of the attention Nate Silver has received since correctly predicting the 2012 election, his book, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't, couldn't top Jeff Kinney's The Third Wheel, which is still Amazon's #1 bestseller.
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Leaver Asks Quarto Stakeholders to Unite and Move Forward
Following the shareholder vote that replaced Quarto Group cofounder and chief executive Laurence Orbach with Tim Chadwick, Quarto president and COO Marcus Leaver sent a letter to employees and other Quarto stakeholders urging all parties to unite behind him and the senior management team.
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Orbach Replaced by Chadwick at Quarto
At the special meeting of Quarto shareholders held today, company cofounder and CEO Laurence Orbach was removed as a director of the publishing company and replaced by Tim Chadwick.
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