Grand Central will fold its Springboard Press and Wellness Central lines into a newly-christened Grand Central Life & Style imprint, starting in fall 2010. They will publish eight to 12 titles a year across categories including style (beauty and fashion), food (cooking), body & mind (diet, fitness, self-help, and inspiration), home (organization, design, and green living) and connections (relationships, parenting and pets). Karen Murgolo continues to oversee this publishing, as editorial director of the new line. In the UK, Pan Macmillan publishing director Maria Rejt will run her own imprint, Mantle, which launches in May with Scott Turow’s new book. […]
Archives for January 2010
This Week's Calendar: Quiet So Far As New Google Deadline Looms
The day after Apple’s big announcement (on January 27), when Amazon reports quarterly earnings (January 28), is also the deadline for postmarks of opt-outs and new objections to the revised Google Books Settlement. So far the court has not registered any new objections received, and the Justice Department has yet to share their thoughts on the revised agreement.
National Book Critics Circle Nominees Named
Fiction:Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (Riverhead)Michelle Huneven, Blame (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Holt)Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Knopf) Nonfiction:Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin Press)Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books)Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon)Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remain (Random House)William T. Vollmann, Imperial (Viking) Autobiography:Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End (Norton)Debra Gwartney, Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters […]
Borders Responds Further to Media Reports
Borders reiterated their own statements to Debtwire.com by further stating in their own release that “Borders has continued to pay its vendors in a timely manner, has not lengthened its days to pay, and has not been contacted by a group of publishers as alleged. Product is flowing to our stores for sale to customers. In fact, we have significantly increased book inventory in the fourth quarter compared to last year, a sign that we have continued to receive support from the vendor community. It is also important to note that we have not been contacted by any law firms […]
eReading News
Kobo put out a press release this morning noting that as of next month their service will be available on “various tablet and slate computers,” which will present an “opportunity to deliver eBooks, newspapers, and magazines to readers on yet another screen that is well equipped for reading.” They are also working on support for Windows 7, Android, and other operating systems.Release Speaking of tablets, every news organization playing catch-up on the no-longer-secret Apple content acquisition talks is now required to come up with at least one name of company talking to the folks from Cupertino. So Bloomberg comes up […]
Debuts to Watch
The Telegraph has a nice list of debut novels in the UK market scheduled for publication in the first half of the year. These titles have been announced for US publication this year as well: The Privileges, Jonathan Dee Rupture, Simon Lelic Serious Men, Manu Joseph Ruby’s Spoon, Anna Lawrence Pietroni These three have no announced US sale or publisher yet that we could find: This Bleeding City, Alex Preston Children of the Sun, Max Schaefer Still Point, by Amy Sackville These two are coming in the US, but later: Cross Country Murder Song, Philip Wilding (Vintage has rights)Tiger Hills, […]