A company called BustedLoop–which is developing a product called AppSlice that will help aid the app discovery process–says that by “leveraging data available to Apple enterprise partners” they “can see what kinds of electronic books Apple plans to offer on the iPad,” Forbes reports. No big surprise, they’ve discovered that the iBookstore will merchandise books much more finely than the current app store. The number of “top-level” ebook category headings keeps changing though; they say it was 35 in late February, but now is organized around about 20 main categories (and another 150 sub-categories).Forbes If you look very carefully at […]
Archives for March 2010
Penguin Adds Science Imprint
In July Penguin will debut their newest imprint, Current, focused on science books for general readers. Portfolio and Sentinel president and publisher Adrian Zackheim will have the same titles for Current as well, and the line will share editorial, marketing and publicity staff with Portfolio and Sentinel. They plan to publish five to eight new titles a year. Zackheim comments in the announcement, “Once Current gets ramped up, we aim to publish in every subcategory from genetics to quantum physics to neuroscience.” The first title is a July release by journalist David Stipp, THE YOUTH PILL: Scientists at the Brink […]
Anonymous Official Says Canada Is "Leaning" Towards Approving Amazon's Expansion Plan
The Canadian Booksellers’ Association has urged the country’s government to reject Amazon’s application to operate their own Canadian-based warehouse and fulfillment operation. But an article in the Globe and Mail quotes an unnamed senior official who indicates the Harper administration is “leaning towards” approving Amazon’s plan, believing there is a “net benefit” to Canadians. That person added, “If you look at the issue specifically, it’s Amazon setting up a warehouse to be able to distribute what they already distribute via the Internet. There’s no change in terms of Canadian content.” Part of the booksellers’ argument is that “individual Canadian booksellers […]
More Announcements
Yesterday Kaplan released Lloyd Constantine‘s book Journal of the Plague Year: An Insider’s Chronicle of Eliot Spitzer’s Short and Tragic Reign, following a wave of pre-publication coverage. (It was originally scheduled for publication a month later.) The ebook lists at a discount of more than 30 percent off the $24.95 hardcover, priced at $16.99. The National Association of College Stores‘ subsidiary NACS Media Solutions will market the Espresso Book Machine to the college bookstore market, and will also “permission academic content for distribution” through all Espresso machines. Elsevier said in a press release they will launch between 8,000 and 9,000 […]
Pondering Good Faith In Newspapers
Embarrassing errors in books is red meat to the New York Times in the same way that sloppy articles about book publishing are reliable grist (and often gristle) for Lunch readers. It was the Times that correctly and laudably first exposed author of Last Train from Hiroshima Charles Pellegrino’s errors on February 21 in a prominent page one article that was surely read by far more people than the 7,000 or so who had purchased the book prior to Holt’s announced cessation of publication. Today they circle back to remind readers of the paper’s general contempt for book publishers. You’ve […]
Announcements: Imprints
Lerner Publishing’s Carolrhoda Books is launching a young adult line this fall, Carolrhoda Lab. Speaking of young adult books, yesterday’s Automat link to an LAT piece on the rising popularity of YA novels among adult readers was so heavily re-tweeted that it’s worth a separate link. “Authors may gear their novels toward the junior and senior high crowd, but adults are snapping up the books, often about misfit teens or fantasy worlds…. Attracted by well-written, fast-paced and engaging stories that span the gamut of genres and subjects, such readers have mainstreamed a niche long derided as just for kids.” Kris […]