Arthur Klebanoff’s Rosetta Books has officially announced their new “standard ebook royalty rate.” They promise to pay 50 percent of net receits on the first 2,500 units sold and 60 percent thereafter, typically licensing rights for five years.
Archives for September 2010
Harper Launches Broadside
As of January, executive editor Adam Bellow’s list of conservative books at Harper Collins will formally constitute an imprint, Broadside Books, with Bellow as editorial director. The line will “project an attitude of forward engagement with the war of ideas, both between right and left and within the conservative movement.” The company says “Broadside will publish across a wide spectrum of nonfiction genres — political and philosophical critiques of liberalism, revisionist histories investigative journalism, issue-focused books by leading political figures, political memoirs, and books that challenge or rethink various aspects of conservatism itself.”
Rowling to Appear on Oprah
J.K. Rowling did a “wide-ranging interview” with Oprah Winfrey in Edinburgh that will air this Friday, October 1. The announcement says her remarks include addressing the pressures of sudden stardom: “You ask about the pressure. At that point, I kept saying to people, yeah I’m coping…but the truth was there were times when I was barely hanging on by a thread.”
People, Etc.
Author, agent, film and television producer and publishing executive Stanley L. Colbert died on September 21 in Toronto, Canada. He was Sterling Lord’s original partner in the Lord & Colbert Agency (with Lord handling magazine sales and Colbert selling to book publishers). As an agent he found a home for Jack Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD after Robert Giroux couldn’t sort out the author’s second manuscript and sent him to Colbert. But Kerouac drove a falling out with Lord and Colbert became an editor at Henry Holt. He moved to LA in 1956 to head the literary department at the William […]
Bookselling: Candy Sells, Upper West Side Denied Another Store
The Strand has successfully added generous candy racks underneath their cash register, and co-owner Fred Bass tells the NY Daily News, “We’re selling five times as much candy as we did ‘register books.’ Candy is an impulse buy.” The paper finds at least modest displays of candy to local Barnes & Noble and Borders stores as well.NYDN On Friday, Borders confirmed that a planned new store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been scrapped. Spokesperson Mary Davis told Bloomberg “it strategically did not fit with our current priorities, one of which is to focus on our current store base.”Bloomberg
Oh, Texas: Appeals Court to Hear Defamation Case While Education Officials Move to Limit Books that Cover Islam
Tomorrow the Texas Court of Appeals will hear arguments on behalf of author Carla Main and publisher Encounter Books, seeking to dismiss a defamation suit brought by Dallas develop H. Walker Royal. Royal’s suit has asked for a permanent injunction against further printing and distribution of the book. When the suit was first before a Texas judge, George F. Will wrote a column about “bulldozing freedom of speech,” saying the court was “being asked to collaborate in the suppression of a book.” He added: “Indeed, so slapdash are Royall’s accusations against Main that his suit seems to reflect nothing more […]