The paper announces to itself it will “publish e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction beginning early next year.” From the way it reads, they will run dedicated ebook bestseller lists rather than incorporate ebook sales into any of the existing lists. Royalty Share will work with the newspaper, to both “provide data and offer an additional source of independent corroboration.” They do not indicate specific data sources they will draw from, so it’s not clear if they will cover the major accounts that dominate current ebook sales. Amusingly, they promise to compile data from independent booksellers along with publishers, […]
Archives for November 2010
A New Look at the Monthly eBook Percentage: Adult eBooks Are Roughly 9.5 Percent
The AAP reported their monthly industry sales statistics for September, including ebook sales compiled from 12 publishers (including the big six). They show ebook sales for the month of $39.9 million, ahead of August’s $39 million, but behind July’s $40.8 million. (We repeat our warning that insiders have told us not to make too much of the monthly precision on these numbers, based on how data is accumulated by publishers). With total trade print sales of $489.5 million for September, that makes ebooks 7.5 percent of sales overall for the month. The total of $304.6 million in ebooks for the […]
People, Awards, Etc.
At Abrams, Susan Van Metre has been promoted to svp and publisher and will now oversee all comic arts books in addition to Abrams Children’s and Amulet Books. Charles Kochman is promoted to editorial director for Abrams ComicArts, adding oversight of children’s comics and graphic novels, reporting to Van Metre. Chad Beckerman moves up to creative director and oversee design for all comic arts books, Abrams Children’s and Amulet. Lindley Boegehold is promoted to editorial director for calendars, licenses and custom publishing. Jennifer Levesque is promoted to editorial director for Stewart, Tabori & Chang and Abrams Image (though Abrams Image […]
Nielsen BookScan and PM Offer New Data Service for Agents
Nielsen BookScan and PublishersMarketplace.com announce today the launch of new service for literary agents, Nielsen PublishersMarketplace BookScan. It combines Nielsen’s “industry standard” point-of-sale book sales data and charts with access via the PublishersMarketplace home page, using the look, feel and convenience of the premier publishing resource’s data and news-rich web site. The first premium upgrade service at PublishersMarketplace since it launched almost nine years ago, Nielsen PublishersMarketplace BookScan provides agents with unlimited searches of the BookScan database, weekly updates, complete author reports, and title reports tracking weekly sales, regional sales, and even DMA sales. A complete package of BookScan’s more […]
Kobo Helps Indigo Grow Sales But Lose Money; Will Seek More Digital Investment
At Canada’s retailing giant Indigo, sales rose 3.7 percent to $214.8 million (CA) in their second quarter, even as superstore comps fell 0.7 percent and smaller-store comps dropped 4.8 percent. The company swung to a net loss of $1.7 million, compared to a profit of $2.2 million a year ago, disappointing analysts, who were looking for the company to break even on somewhat higher sales. As with Barnes & Noble, the digital transition is adding costs, even as the company likes their prospects. CEO Heather Reisman says in the release, “we are pleased with our top line revenue growth, particularly […]
Peripatetic Penzler Moves Again, Now to Grove/Atlantic
Otto Penzler, who has been publishing through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US for the past six years, is relaunching the Mysterious Press imprint with his newest publishing partner, Grove/Atlantic. Penzler reacquired the imprint’s name from Hachette Book Group, having sold the original Mysterious Press to Warner Books in 1989. That move parallels Penzler’s relocation in the UK, where moved his line to Grove/Atlantic spin-off Atlantic Books, as part of the new Corvus division led by Anthony Cheetham, last November. (Cheetham has previously set up Penzler’s line at his former company Quercus, after almost setting it up at Random UK’s […]