Amazon New York has said for many months it was their intention to make the start-up imprint’s ebooks available for sale by other ebooksellers. Though they are down to the wire, since their fall release schedule started yesterday with Harley Manning and Kerry Bodine’s OUTSIDE IN: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business, and Jessica Valenti’s WHY HAVE KIDS? publishes September 4, the line has reached a distribution agreement with Ingram’s Core Source program, paidContent reports. That agreement comes after Amazon dipped a toe into making their ebooks non-exclusive as we reported in June, when Houghton Mifflin […]
Archives for August 2012
Kobo Will Take Over From Google as ABA’s eBook Retailer
Kobo will reestablish a presence in US retail booksellers that they have lacked since Borders liquidated under an agreement with the American Booksellers Association that takes over from the soon-to-be-cancelled Google eBooks relationship. The WSJ says the new agreement will be effective in October (ahead of Google’s scheduled termination of their affiliates in January 2013); the ABA simply says it will launch “this fall,” with approximately 400 stores expected to participate. The ABA held conversations with a variety of potential new partners, said to include such providers as Copia and the soon-to-launch Zola Books (which is enrolling its own independent […]
Your First Chance At the Big Event(s)
Digital Book World 2013 (aka DBW IV) has just opened for registration, set for January 16 and January 17 in New York City, shifting location slightly to the Hilton Hotel. Since we first joined with F+W Media and Mike Shatzkin in 2009 to help plan and promote Digital Book World, the event has grown into the premier digital educational event by and for trade publishing professionals in the world. Since the beginning, Publishers Lunch readers have had access to the best price on individual tickets to the show, and that pledge continues: Use our code PUBLUNCH for a 5 percent […]
People, Etc.
Annie Stone has joined Harlequin Teen as associate editor. Previously she was an assistant editor at Harper. Kristina Aven has joined Little, Brown Children’s as a publicist. She was at Penguin Children’s. Ann Dye will join Little, the unit as associate director, brand marketing for James Patterson. She was most recently a marketing manager at Disney Publishing Worldwide. At Canada’s Kids Can Press, managing editor Semareh Al-Hillal has been promoted to the new position of associate publisher, responsible for the day-to-day operations of the editorial, editorial services and design departments, reporting to acting publisher Lisa Lyons. Jennifer Grimbleby has been promoted to production editor; DoEun Kwon is now production editor; Adrienne […]
University of Missouri Will Keep Its Press After All
The University of Missouri Press, which had been set for closure this summer, with its assets to be transferred to a newly-imagined “teaching press,” will be preserved in more or less its current form. University of Missouri System president Tim Wolfe says in a statement, “I have been listening to the support and dedication the community and others have shown the Press, and make every assurance that university administration is working to create the kind of Press of which the academic community and those that it serves can be proud.” Responsibility for the press has been transferred from the UM […]
PEN Honorees Include Doctorow, Gleick, Hitchens and Massie
The PEN American Center announced the winners (and runners-up) for their wealth of 2012 literary prizes and translation grants, comprising 18 awards in all. The roster includes two new prizes (asterisked) below, and comprises almost $175,000 for the honored writers. Among the winners: PEN/Bellwether Prize (unpublished socially-engaged fiction)*: Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (debut): Vanessa Veselka, Zazen (Red Lemonade) PEN/Saul Bellow (fiction achievement): E. L. Doctorow PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Pantheon Books) PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award (essay collection): Christopher Hitchens, Arguably (Twelve) PEN/ESPN Award […]