Farrar, Straus will adopt the distribution model in Canada already followed by the rest of Macmillan: As of January 2013, Raincoast Book Distribution will handle FSG and Graywolf titles sold to independent and college bookstores, Costco, library wholesalers, and special markets. FSG has been distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre since 1997. Raincoast and Macmillan will begin selling the FSG winter 2013 list in August 2012. OverDrive has announced the opening of a new office in Melbourne, Australia “to deepen its relationships with library, publisher and bookseller partners in Australia, New Zealand and throughout the Asia Pacific region.” They acquired Australia’s Booki.sh earlier this […]
Archives for July 2012
BEA Moves Up 2013 Dates By A Week, Will Now Run Between May 29 and June 1
Book Expo America announced Monday afternoon that the book fair will take place a week earlier than planned, with the conference to run on Wednesday, May 29 and the show floor set to open between Thursday, May 30 and Saturday, June 1. (The Book Blogger Conference will also take place on the 29th, with Saturday, June 1 open to the public.) BEA officials had wanted to move the date for some time “as it is expected to drive down hotel prices by 10% – 20% depending on the property,” and received the “surprise” go-ahead from Javits earlier Monday. There will […]
Authors, Etc.: Englander Wins Frank O’Connor Prize; Dagger Awards; And More
Nathan Englander has won the 2012 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award for his collection WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK (Knopf). The Guardian reports the prize money dropped to €25,000 this year from €35,000 in previous years, with funding not yet confirmed for future years. The CWA announced the longlists for three of its Dagger Awards for crime writing as well as the winners in three additional categories: Ellis Peters Historical Dagger: Aly Monroe, ICELIGHT CWA International Dagger: Andrea Camilleri, THE POTTER’S FIELD Dagger in the Library: Steve Mosby In author news finally making way to […]
eNews: Macmillan’s $100 Million+ for Acquisitions; TED Launches Reading App/Store
Former Questia founder Troy Williams, who joined Macmillan as general manager of New Ventures in fall 2010, tells Pando Daily that Holtzbrinck has allocated something over $100 million for him to purchase “ed-tech startups that will eventually be the future of Macmillan…as Macmillan transitions out of the content business and into educational software and services.” Williams indicates to them he “plans to do five deals this year and 10 to 15 over the course of the next five years.” Acquisitions so far include Prep-U, a student “quizzing engine,” i-Clicker, a mobile classroom polling company, and most recently Educational Benchmarking, a […]
Germany’s Church to Donate, Rather than Sell, Weltbild
Erotica may have gone mainstream for trade publishers but that doesn’t make it any better for a Church-owned publisher. The 12 German Catholic dioceses that own bookselling and publishing giant Weltbild have formally cancelled the sale offering of the company after more than 7 months–either because there were no viable offers, or because the organizations favored continuing to use company to benefit their causes. The church will donate its shares to a non-profit ecclesiastical foundation instead, providing the needed distance from the publisher following last year’s sensational focus on some of the erotica issued by the company. The news was […]
Fifty Shades Trilogy Nears Sales of 20 Million in the US, 31 Million In English
Vintage’s editions of EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy sold 19.4 million units in the US through July 2, and 31 million units in English around the world. US sales remain almost equally split between trade paperbacks (9.8 million copies) and ebooks (9.6 million units), the WSJ writes in an advance look at Vintage’s press release. Those sales comprise approximately $145 million for Vintage–but also closer to $225 million for Random House, which licensed world English rights. James’ books, reissued four months ago, have comprised as much as 20 percent of all print adult fiction sales in the US […]