Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Debut ARISTOCRATS author Stella Tillyard’s THE TIDES OF WAR, set between 1812-1815 […]
Archives for December 2010
Washington Post’s Top 10
The Washington Post votes along with much of the consensus on their ten favorite books of the year, though they stubbornly refuse to ratify Jonathan Franzen and Isabel Wilkerson’s books: Nonfiction THE DEATH OF AMERICAN VIRTUE: Clinton vs. Starr, by Ken Gormley JUST KIDS, by Patti Smith THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis THE TIGER, by John Vaillant Fiction FAITHFUL PLACE, by Tana French A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, by Jennifer Egan SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY, by Gary Shteyngart TO THE END OF THE LAND, by David Grossman ROOM, […]
Also Closing: Chicklet, and BookArmy
Princeton children’s bookstore Chicklet will close at the end of the month, as their landlord turns the space over to a tenant paying market rent.Princeton Packet In the same week that Figment.com has launched, Harper UK’s book social networking site BookArmy indicates it will close December 21. The Bookseller says an email to site members indicated “the decision has been made to close the site, after facing strong competition from similar sites and fewer advertising opportunities in such a tough economic climate.” The company tells the magazine that staff will be reassigned to their site Authonomy.
Wimpy Still Beats the Field
Abrams updated sales information on sales of Jeff Kinney’s new DIARY OF A WIMPY KID book, published four weeks, now with 6.5 million copies in print after three reprints. CEO Michael Jacobs says they have tracked nearly 2 million copies sold through the trade in the first four weeks, which “has exceeded all of our expectations in all markets.” Abrams also sells a considerable quantity of books in the school market through Scholastic’s book clubs and fairs (roughly equivalent to the trade market) but that sell-through is harder to track precisely in real-time. Those trade sales are up 35 percent […]
Apple’s Top Books, and Best Enhanced eBooks
As part of their iTunes Rewind 2010 lists, Apple picked “best of” 2010 ebooks across a variety of categories. Below are their overall best of the year selections, and the first-ever list of their picks for best enhanced ebooks: Best of the BestThe Emperor of All MaladiesThe Big Short, by Michael LewisNo One Would Listen, by Harry MarkopolosPacking for Mars, by Mary RoachThe Glass Rainbow, by James Lee BurkeSh*t My Dad Says, by Justin HalpernMatterhorn, by Karl MalantesThe Solitude of Prime Numbers, by Paolo GiordanoI Curse the River of Time, by Per PettersonRoom, by Emma DonaghueCleopatra, by Stacy SchiffThe Lonely […]
People, Etc.
Kobo has hired Pieter Swinkels as Director of Publisher and Industry Relations for Europe, leading the company’s expansion there. He was associate publisher of De Bezige Bij and publisher of Cargo in Holland. In his new role at Kobo, Swinkels will be responsible for driving forward Kobo’s ambitious expansion into the European market. The company notes “the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands currently have the highest European Kobo user counts, but the company is quickly expanding its audience in Spain, Portugal and Italy.” The Gail Ross Literary Agency has changed its name to The Ross Yoon Agency. Agency […]