Just announced, they include: Best Indie Buzz Book (Fiction) * City of Thieves, by David Benioff (Viking) * The Given Day, by Dennis Lehane (Morrow) * The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial) * Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon) * People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) * Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf) Best Conversation Starter (Nonfiction) * American Buffalo, by Steven Rinella (Spiegel & Grau) * The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins (Knopf) * Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg (Other Press) * A Voyage Long and Strange, […]
Archives for March 2009
NelsonFree Bundles Audio and eBook with Print Purchase
Thomas Nelson will provide buyers of selected hardcover books with access to an MP3 audiobook version and several types of ebook files (including ePub, MobiPocket and PDF) at no extra charge under their NelsonFree program. “After readers purchase a book with the NelsonFree logo, they will be directed to a website where they must register and answer a simple security question.” Once approved, they are able to download the files. The initiative will start with two late March releases,Scott McKain’s Collapse of Distinction and Michael Franzese’s I’ll Make You An Offer You Can’t Refuse. The company says they will issue […]
NYT Unloads on Discrepancies in Minor-League Baseball Memoir
Matt McCarthy’s recently-published ODD MAN OUT, his “his salacious memoir of his summer as an obscure minor league pitcher,” is full of “wide-ranging errors and misquotations” according to the NYT. “Statistics from that season, transaction listings and interviews with his former teammates indicate that many portions of the book are incorrect, embellished or impossible.” Are they minor chronological errors and the complaints of those who are depicted in an unflattering light, or indications of a seriously flawed or even invented narrative? The newspaper clearly implies the latter–but would they have treated Ball Four the same way if it were published […]
Graphic Novel App From Hachette/Patterson/ScrollMotion
ScrollMotion’s Iceberg Reader fell into the background the last couple of months but a new app shows what makes this technology different from popular text readers from Stanza, eReader and Shortcovers: the graphics. They have adapted James Patterson’s graphic novel DANIEL X into a paid iTunes app that “plays” the book more like a video (and gets around the lack of Flash for iPhone/iPod Touch). Or, as the company puts it, they allow “users to move the story forward or backward with a swipe of the finger, and engage the graphic novel in several other ways never before seen.” Hachette […]
Patterson's Latest Collaborator
James Patterson is reaching across the ocean for his latest writing partner, working on a new thriller set primarily in Stockholm with Scandinavian crime writer Liza Marklund, best known for her Annika Bengtzon series. The book will be published in Sweden in 2010 with Marklund’s regular publisher Piratförlaget (of which she is a part owner), but that is the only territory sold so far. Robert Barnett at Williams & Connolly is representing rights for the US and the UK and has “a great deal of interest” from Patterson’s existing publishers in both territories. Linda Michaels, who was the “driving force […]
Lunch Weekly for Monday, March 2
Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Debut Washington Post contributor Terence Shine’s NOTHING HAPPENS UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO […]