Archives for April 2005

Scholastic Buys Cunningham’s Chicken Scholastic has purchased the UK’s Chicken House, run by Barry Cunningham. The companies had been partners in the US, Canada and Australia, on such books as Cornelia Funke’s DRAGON RIDER (with 900,000 copies in print in North America) and recent Jonah’s Pick Stuart Hill’s THE CRY OF THE ICEMARK. Cunningham says […]

Fresh Book Sales The NYT reports on the growing presence of books in supermarkets. The Kroger chain, called “among the most aggressive in expanding its book sections,” is carrying up to 2,800 titles per store. Lance Parsons, who manages Kroger’s book line, comments: “When you look at our business versus a bookstore, we have the […]

Herz Launches Small Imprint Doubleday Broadway’s Suzanne Herz will become publisher of a new imprint for the house, Flying Point Press, focusing on popular culture and fiction and aiming to publish up to six books a year. Herz will “work closely with senior editor Phyllis Grann” and other members of the Doubleday Broadway team. The […]

Apple Retaliates for Wiley Bio Wiley says that Apple Computer “told us that our technology books were immediately being pulled from their Apple retail stores,” the company’s Kitt Allan says, “in apparent retaliation for the upcoming publication of a biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs,” the San Jose Mercury News reports. The paper says the […]

RH Buys Half of Scottish Publisher Random House UK has taken a fifty percent stake in Scottish nonfiction publisher Mainstream. Bill Campbell and Peter Mackenzie will continue as joint managing directors of the company, founded 27 years ago, and it will continue to operate from Edinburgh. Random UK’s Ian Hudson and Brian Davies will join […]

Bologna Report Publishing News has a long overview on the recent Bologna Book Fair, reporting a steady show with few big stories. “While still, to all intents, a fiction fair, it was noticeable, almost wherever you went, that publishers are not giving up on picture books. Despite a market, particularly in the US, that appears […]