Elizabeth Hay Wins Giller The former broadcaster won Canada’s top fiction prize for her third novel, LATE NIGHTS ON AIR, about “the loves and rivalries of a cast of eccentric characters at a small radio station in Yellowknife, near Canada’s Arctic.” (Counterpoint has a US edition scheduled for next March.) Globe and Mail Review section […]
Archives for November 2007
Lunch for Tuesday, November 6
Amazon Prime UK Already a popular feature in the US and Japan, Amazon’s “prime” shipping plan has been added to their UK site, providing next-day delivery on a large selection items for an annual fee of 49 pounds. CEO Jeff Bezos notes, “We find lots of things happen when someone becomes a member of Prime […]
Lunch for Monday, November 5
BookSurge Adds a Few Hundred Thousand Books to Amazon Catalog The title count of new books published this year just took an exponential jump: BookSurge has partnered with Ancestry.com to create almost 280,000 on-demand books, called the Our Name in History series, priced at $29.95 and running 98 pages. They chronicle the most common last […]
Lunch Weekly for Monday, November 5
Deal News FICTION Debut Dave Boling’s GUERNICA, a sweeping epic of love, family, and war set in the tiny Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by the German Luftwaffe on the eve of World War II, to Karen Rinaldi and Lindsay Sagnette at Bloomsbury, by Kim Witherspoon at Inkwell Management (NA). […]
Lunch for Friday, November 2
Sales Top Titles Lift S&S Simon & Schuster continues a strong streak of sales and earnings growth with reported third-quarter sales of $214 million, up 9 percent, “principally reflecting higher sales from top-selling titles” such as the The Secret and Joel Osteen’s BECOME A BETTER YOU. Operating income rose six percent, to $21.6 million, impaired […]
Lunch for Thursday, November 1
Harlequin Slightly Up Down Sales at Harlequin were down 2.5 percent to $115.7 million (CA) due to the weakened dollar, though “underlying” sales were up $.7 million absent currency fluctuations. North American retail was up slightly while direct-to-consumer was down slightly, and overseas sales were up slightly. Even with the currency issues, profits rebounded 12.5 […]