Little Brown UK told The Bookseller that “Robert Galbraith’s” THE CUCKOO’S CALLING had sold 1,400 print copies and 800 ebooks domestically, plus 2,000 export copies and 3,800 audio downloads. (That compares to under 500 hardcovers in the US.) The UK publisher is reprinting 140,000 copies. Rowling’s spokesperson felt compelled to formally deny involvement in the Sunday Times revelation, saying “it was not a leak or elaborate marketing campaign to boost sales.” Little Brown UK added their own denial, in almost the same words, saying it “was not a leak or part of a marketing campaign.” As for other big bestsellers, […]
Archives for July 2013
Inkling Raises $16 Million, Hires Executives, Adds Content Partners
Last month start-up Inkling raised another $16 million in series financing, led by previous funder Sequoia Capital. That’s on top of at least $23 million reported raised in previous equity rounds. As part of their expansion, they have hired three executives to lead marketing, business development, and finance and operations. Gus Gostyla has joined Inkling as vp, business development (he was head of business development at Flipboard); Hema Padhu is vp, marketing (after holding the same title at ModCloth); Stephane Panier is vp, finance and operations, after working in similar positions at GoodData and Google. Inkling announced two strategic partnerships […]
People, Etc.
Former Free Press editor-in-chief Dominick Anfuso will join Crown Archetype on July 29 as vp, executive Editor, reporting to Mauro DiPreta. Anfuso will acquire and edit titles for Archetype, Harmony, Crown Business, and Crown Forum. Former Hyperion editor Matt Inman also joins the company, this week, as editor for Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press. Additionally, consulting editor-at-large Heather Jackson has been named vp, executive editor for Harmony, newly reporting to DiPreta. Frances Foster, who has worked in children’s book publishing for 55 years and run Frances Foster Books, an imprint of FSG Children’s, since 1994, is retiring after a […]
People, Awards, Etc.
Ken Brooks, who recently left his position at Cengage as svp, global production and manufacturing services to focus on his consulting company, has now joined McGraw Hill Education as their svp, global supply chain management. UK agent Sarah Molloy will retire from A.M. Heath at the end of July. Julia Churchill, who joined the agency in April, will take over primary representation of the agency’s children’s list, including estates. Also in the UK, Hodder & Stoughton has created specialist sales, publicity and marketing teams for its divisions. At John Murray Press, Ben Gutcher is now sales director across the division’s imprints; […]
AAP Trade Sales Fall Some In February, Further In March
The AAP released catch-up Stat Shot statistics from February and March that show overall trade sales declining from one month to the next through the first quarter of 2013, mostly due to the absence of hits to take the place of the Hunger Games trilogy a year ago. February trade sales (from a pool of almost 1,200 reporting publishers across all sectors) declined 6 percent, to $421 million; March trade sales fell further, by 8.6 percent, to $449 million. (January sales, as previously reported, had been down by just $3 million.) Those comparisons will likely fall again in comparison to […]
People, Etc.
At HarperCollins, Joe Macavage has been promoted to the newly created position of director of fulfillment operations, including HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Macavage will be based in the RR Donnelley facility in Plainfield, IN and will be responsible for oversight of the company’s distribution, including closely monitoring the RRD New Release Distribution Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia. At Ten Speed Press, Michele Crim has been promoted to senior director of marketing, while Toni Tajima has been promoted to senior art director and Katy Brown moves up to associate art director. Ray Wolf starts today as director, sales and business development at Fox […]