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 Author of CALAMITY AND OTHER STORIES Daphne Kalotay’s RUSSIAN WINTER, set […]
Archives for April 2009
BN Finally Launches a Competitor to Audible
Barnes & Noble.com has launched an online mp3 audiobook, offering over 10,000 titles at an “average price” of $10 to $20 per download. A launch promotion offers nine free titles, including: The Babysitter’s Code by Laura Lippman, Great Day by Kurt Vonnegut, Super Goat Man by Jonathan Lethem, Best New Horror by Joe Hill, Fathers by Alice Munro, Truth or Dare by Elizabeth Berg, Ysrael by Junot Diaz, and Merrano of the Dry Country by Louis L’Amore. EVP of e-commerce Tom Burke calls it “a natural progression in our commitment to book lovers and audiobook fans.” Overdrive is maintaining and […]
Proposals: Boyle On, Brangelina Bodyguard Off
Crain’s reports that Richard Pine at Inkwell Management in the US and Mark Lucas to Lucas Alexander Whitley in the UK are auctioning a book by amateur singing sensation Susan Boyle. (The agents did not respond to queries from Crain’s.)Crains (if you click through from Google News you won’t get stopped at the reg wall) Celebrity bodyguard Mickey Brett’s book proposal about a variety of famous clients, including Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, makes its way to the NY Daily News, though the book itself will not find its way to store shelves. After legal threats to block any publication, […]
LAT Festival: Prizes, and Wind Damage
The Los Angeles Times kicked off their weekend festival of books with the naming of their annual book prize winners, which included: Fiction: Marilynne Robinson, HOMEFirst Fiction: Zoe Ferraris, FINDING NOUFYoung Adult: Terry Pratchett, NATIONCurrent Interest: Barton Gellman, ANGLER: The Cheney Vice Presidency Though this year’s awards presentation was downsized to the newspaper’s offices and not open to the public, LA Observed says “LAT publisher Eddy Hartenstein pledged publicly that the Times Book Prizes would continue next year, and at least some judges were already asked to return.” On Saturday afternoon, heavy winds knocked down a scaffolding on the UCLA […]
Exhibitors and Attendees Fall at BEA, As Publishers and Organizers Try New Things
Yes it’s the London Book Fair that just ended, not Book Expo America,but the story for the upcoming American show is already taking clearshape, and we’d like to get past what won’t happen realistically and onto what can happen. Going by current tracking, show organizers say to expect roughly 20percent fewer exhibitors (around 1,500 to 1,600, rather than the typical1,900 to 2000); and about 15 percent fewer attendees than the 2007 NY show but 20 percent more than last year in LA, with a steeperdrop of more like thirty percent among attending exhibitors. There are likely to be fewer ABA […]
Pub Date, 4 O'Clock: Perseus to Make a Book and Publish Live from the BEA Floor
This year at BEA, in addition to presenting forthcoming books thetraditional way, Perseus Books Group will give over a prime slice oftheir booth to an ambitious project that makes transparent the entireprocess of creating and publishing book–and aspires to make it allhappen in less than two days. The book is called BOOK: The Sequel, and on an hour-by-hour schedulestill being finalized, they intend to edit, design, produce, sell,publicize/promote and publish live before fairgoers’ eyes (and with theirparticipation)–one at a time via an Espresso Book Machine they expectto have in their booth but also in all major formats and platforms(audio; digital […]