BEA show manager Lance Fensterman has done such a good job with Reed’s fast-growing comics and pop culture shows that he has been promoted to group vice president and will focus exclusively on the company’s pop culture business. With no replacement for BEA in place yet, Fensterman “will remain on BEA through the transition.” Fensterman’s boss–and one-time BEA show manager herself–Courtney Muller has also been promoted, now a senior vice president. Muller’s portfolio of shows continues to include oversight of BEA.Release After yesterday’s announcement from Random House in the US, a separate announcement noted that Kristin Cochrane will move up […]
Archives for December 2009
More eStuff: Hailing B&T's Forthcoming Platform; Nora Roberts' eGame; Penguin's Satellite Radio Show
Mike Shatzkin offers a preview look at Ray Kurzweil‘s new electronic “reading technology,” to be presented at the Consumer Electronics Show in January and to be marketed by Baker & Taylor under the name Blio. The payoff, he says, is that it makes “enhancing” ebooks easier than ever (if you think that’s important. But it only works on devices with an operating systems–like computers and iPhones, but not Kindle. B&T tells him they have “180,000 titles already committed to Blio, at least 50,000 of which will be available at launch.” Nora Roberts is releasing a downloadable game based on her […]
Lost Symbol Crosses 4 Million
Doubleday announced that Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL has now sold over 4 million units in North America inclusive of all formats: hardcover, ebook, and audio.
Amazon Breakthrough Contest Adds YA Category, Reduces Advances
For the third year, Penguin Group is joining Amazon in their Breakthrough Novel Award contest–which will now add a second prize for young adult fiction. The contest, which starts January 25, will also now be open to novels that have been previously self-published (to not penalize all those existing CreateSpace customers). Alas in a less heralded change the promised advance to the winners has gotten smaller: originally promising a $25,000 advance, this new contest’s two winners are assured $15,000 advances each. (Sales of the three contest-related books published so far by Penguin imprints–Bill Loehfelm’s FRESH KILLS; BAD THINGS HAPPEN by […]
More 2009 Picks, from Time and Salon
Time Magazine pairs the expected (Hilary Mantel and Richard Holmes) with the exotic (Night Shade’s The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi), and stands alone on everything from acknowledgment for Suzanne Collins’ crossover hit Catching Fire to Jonathan Littell’s otherwise unliked The Kindly Ones. And in a separate list, Time also picked Barnes & Noble’s nook as their No. 2 gadget of the year. Top 10 Fiction1. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel2. The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter3. Swimming by Nicola Keegan4. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins5. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower6. Jeff in Venice, Death […]
Simon & Schuster's Full List of Delayed eReleases
Simon & Schuster has provided a list of the new hardcover releases for the first four months of 2010 that will not be published in ebook form until four months after initial print publication. They write: “We believe this publishing sequence will benefit the performance of all the different formats in which these titles are published, and in the long term will contribute to a healthier retail environment for the greater book buying public.” JanuaryYOU: ON A DIET REVISED EDITION by Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. (Free Press) STAR by Peter Biskind (S&S) THE HIGH SCHOOL […]