Jeanne Emanuel will join the Perseus Books Group later this month in the new position of vp of special and gift sales, based in the Cambridge, MA office and reporting to Matty Goldberg. She was previously executive director of sales for Adams Media. In promotions at Bloomsbury/Walker/Bloomsbury Press: Benjamin Adams has become a senior editor; Pete Beatty moves up to editor; Margaret Maloney is now an associate editor; Rachel Mannheimer becomes an assistant editor; Carrie Majer has been made a senior publicist; and Jiyeon Dew was promoted to production manager. At Harper, Maya Ziv and Jason Sack have both been […]
Archives for April 2010
Your iBooks Distribution Options
The distribution picture for getting your books into the iBookstore is becoming clear with a raft of announcements from service providers and an informational page at the iTunes site. While music and music video vendors can fill out an online vendor application for Apple’s review, it appears that book publishers currently have two options only. Either an iBookstore representative has issued you an “application code” to apply for the iBookstore directly, or else you are directed to a list of seven “Apple-approved aggregators.” As Apple notes, “if you choose to work with an aggregator to distribute your content on the […]
Oh, the Taxes You Might Owe
Steel yourself for what may be one of the most tedious yet important stories we have filed yet on the agency model. The scintillating subject matter: sales taxes. As we’ve mentioned in passing previously, one of the biggest transitional issues for the companies moving to an agency model across their account base is grappling with the new sales tax obligations. As Kobo evp Michael Tamblyn confirms, “of all the points of negotiation, issues related to sales tax were by far the most complex and the area of greatest concern for publishers once we got past the establishemnt of new agency […]
People
Jocelyn Schmidt will join Penguin Children’s on April 19 in the new position of director of brand management. She was most recently vp, director of sales at Random House, where she led the mass merchandise sales group.Lia Brown is joining Avalon Books as editor and Jennifer Graham is joining the company as production editor.
Tablet Days: Apple Says Oveer 250k eBooks On First Day
Apple resolved some of the guessing (and overheated estimates) by announcing this morning that they sold “over 300,000 iPads” on Saturday–including pre-orders and “deliveries” to partners like Best Buy. They say that “over 250,000 ebooks” were downloaded from the iBookstore on day one (presumably including free titles) along with over one million apps. Among third-party book apps, the Kindle and Kobo apps were indeed live and working on the iPad, though Barnes & Noble’s app is not yet available. Going by ceo William Lynch’s quote to WSJ, it’s not clear whether it’s the bookseller’s fault or Apple’s: “We don’t have […]
Ingram Opens the Door to iBookstore
One way the Apple store will ramp up with content is through a new agreement with Ingram’s CoreSource as a “preferred partner,” announced this morning. The release says that “Ingram will help manage the relationship between publishers and Apple. This will enable a publisher’s catalog to be ingested, converted into ePub, Apple’s required format, and submitted to the iBookstore.” Since some publishers reported initial problems in uploading their titles to Apple, this could indicate that a smoother process is on the way. It’s also possible that it could solve some of the problems related to Apple’s executing contracts with thousands […]