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 Max Schaefer’s CHILDREN OF THE SUN, to Denise Oswald at Soft […]
Archives for February 2010
Google Rebuts Settlement Objections from Justice and Others: It's "A Compromise"
Google finally got their chance to speak in their own voice (or at least their attorney’s voice) to the many objections raised over the proposed settlement with the Authors Guild, the AAP, and others in a brief filed yesterday with the court. In places the filing all but sneers at “many of those complaining about the settlement’s terms [who] are not themselves class members.” The overwhelming focus of Google’s arguments is on rebutting points raised in the recent opinion from the Justice Department, suggesting that is the primary set of arguments that Google believes might carry any weight with the […]
People and More
Kelly Bowen will join Algonquin as senior publicist on February 24. She has bee a publicist at Simon and Schuster. YA author and agent Mandy Hubbard has joined the D4EO Literary Agency where she will concentrate on YA and middle-grade fiction. on. Simon & Schuster has relaunched their trade web site, www.simonandschuster.biz. It includes a blog for booksellers from their marketing staff and tools for authors to enter customized information about themselves and blog posts that appear on their consumer web site. It also provides handy access to company’s own digital catalog–where we spotted former Bear Stearns ceo Ace Greenberg’s […]
USA Today Adds Barnes & Noble and Sony eBook Data
USA Today has extended their leadership role as the first major national bestseller list to include Kindle sales data with today’s announcement that they will also incorporate digital sales information from both Barnes & Noble and Sony’s estores.
Sales Fall 20 Percent At HBG USA (On Meyer Comp), But Lagardere Finishes Ahead
Lagardere reported preliminary results for their fiscal fourth quarter, ending December 31, with sales at Lagardere Publishing down 2.7 percent at 579 million euros (though the company claims that on a “like-for-like” currency adjusted basis sales rose 0.2 percent in the period and declares it “better than expected”). Sales at Hachette Book Group USA, which had shown “double-digit growth” through the end of September, fell “about 20 percent” in the fourth quarter–due to comparisons to Stephenie Meyer’s big breakout a year ago, when she sold 8 million copies in December 2009. US ebook sales, as previously mentioned by ceo Arnaud […]
Scribd's Mobile Plans
The WSJ reports on Scribd’s long-discussed plans to make their document files portable to all manner of e-readers and mobile devices like iPhones. As they note, the site is “trying to become the universal adaptor for e-readers.” (A little like Google’s let-us-run-your-ebook-cloud strategy.) The Journal says iRex and Cool-er have approved the new efforts, and “an Amazon spokesman said the company approved the addition of a Kindle button to Scribd, but declined to comment further.” The feature will work with nook and Sony’s Readers, “but only when those devices are plugged directly into a computer and the user manually drags […]