Malcolm Gladwell deftly moved on from his Wednesday remarks at BEA’s IDPF conference at a party thrown by publisher Little, Brown for his forthcoming book David and Goliath on Thursday night. He referred to his “disaster of yesterday” when he apparently “said I was in favor of turning the New York Public library into condos,” […]
Archives for May 2013
“Difficult Negotiations” Persist Between S&S and B&N, Limiting Author Events, Too
One controversy not evident on the BEA show floor but still very heated off the floor is the stand-off on terms between Barnes & Noble and Simon & Schuster that has resulted in reduced business between the publisher and the bookseller since the beginning of the year. (For some publishers, discussion of revamped terms with […]
Here At the Hothouse
Weather metaphors make it easy to declare this year’s Book Expo America a “hot” show and indeed we had the title of Boris Kachka’s forthcoming August book Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, on our minds many times Thursday, in the […]
People, Etc.
Sarah Harrison Smith has been named children’s editor at the New York Times Book Review. She was most recently on the paper’s metropolitan desk. Scholastic unveiled the new cover designed by Kazu Kubuishi for HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, which will be published on August 27 (along with the other redesigned books in […]
ABA Sales “Hold Our Own” After Strong 2012
ABA ceo Oren Teicher shared continuing positive sales news with member booksellers at the organization’s annual meeting on Thursday afternoon at BEA. “As you know, unit sales in our channel, as reported to our weekly Indie Bestseller List, were up almost 8 percent last year,” Teicher said. “This year we are seeing the good news […]
Tech: Ingram’s New Tool for Independent Publishers; Libre Rolls Out Digital Distribution; BookScout Adds Mobile; 3M Provides Daily Data;
Ingram will launch a new self-service “publish-on-demand” platform for independent publishers, IngramSpark, this summer. It combines their Lighting Source (print-in-demand) and Core Source (digital asset distribution) services in a single toolset, to manage print and ebook distribution under one umbrella. General Manager of Ingram Publisher Services Mark Ouimet says “independent publishers will now have access to […]