Sandy Hodgman will manage foreign rights on a part-time basis for LJK Literary Management and The Jud Laghi Agency starting May 1. She has sold foreign rights for HarperCollins and The Robbins Office. Both agencies will continue to work with co-agents in most territories, and to sell rights directly in the UK and Netherlands. On Demand Books has hired Steve Sutton as vp, director of university and library sales and Susie Stroud as vp, director of content acquisition. Most recently Sutton was vp, library services and director of new business development at YBP Library Services and Stroud was national accounts […]
Archives for April 2010
May Indie Next List
The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John MandelThe Lonely Polygamist by Brady UdallThe Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline WinspearGirl In Translation by Jean KwokDiamond Ruby: A Novel by Joseph WallaceTomorrow River by Lesley KagenThe Invisible Bridge by Julie OrringerChef by Jaspreet SinghMy Name is Mary Sutter by Robin OliveiraThe Ark by Boyd MorrisonThe Map of True Places by Brunonia BarryBeatrice and Virgil by Yann MartelLean on Pete: A Novel by Willy VlautinThe Other Family by Joanna TrollopeThe Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’FarrellWanna Get Lucky? by Deborah CoontsThe Red Thread by Ann HoodThe Hypnotist (The Reincarnationist, […]
More from Borders
Borders management provided a few additional details on their status in a conference call with investors this morning following yesterday’s refinancing and fourth quarter results. But more formal details about their performance and the details of their new debt agreements will come later today when they file their 8-K with the SEC. CFO Mark Bierly said there should be “not that many” Borders superstores likely to close in the coming year. “We do have some stores that will come up for renewal” and the company “will continue to have active dialogue” with landlords over those locations. He admitted that “overall […]
iBookstore Selection Will Be "Puny"
We’ve been writing that it appears very few publishers aside from the Agency Five will be ready to go from day one in the iBookstore, and David Pogue confirms that assessment in an early review of the iPad today. For doubters: “There’s an e-book reader app, but it’s not going to rescue the newspaper and book industries (sorry, media pundits). The selection is puny (60,000 titles for now). You can’t read well in direct sunlight. At 1.5 pounds, the iPad gets heavy in your hand after awhile (the Kindle is 10 ounces). And you can’t read books from the Apple […]
Hachette eBooks "Currently Unavailable" at Amazon; In Update, Site Blames HBG
It’s no joke: the agency model arrived today, at least in part, and as previously reported and predicted, there will be at least a few discrepancies and business interruptions along the way as systems and contracts are switched. Most notably so far, buy buttons for the Hachette Book Groups’ ebook titles disappeared today, first reported here, including current top sellers such as Nicholas Sparks and Stephenie Meyer. But HBG’s print books remain available directly from the site. In a site post, Amazon said that they have signed a new agency agreement with the publisher, however: “We recently signed an ‘agency’ […]
Slimmer Loss In Scholastic's Quietest Quarter
Like their Harry Potter partners in the UK Bloomsbury, Scholastic reported softer third quarter sales of $398.8 million, down from $423.6 million a year ago mostly because of lower Potter-related sales. But the company reduced their loss from continuing operations to $6.3 million, much improved from a $41.2 million loss a year ago. (The company usually incurs some loss during the third quarter.) They raised their full-year earnings guidance to the top end of the previously-provided range CEO Dick Robinson says in the release, “Successful execution and increased federal stimulus funding drove more than 30% growth in sales of educational […]