Rosetta Books announced multiple promotions: Nav Khalsa has been appointed digital marketing director; Greg Freed is production and distribution director; Michelle Weyenberg has been named digital marketing and promotions manager; Hannah Bennett is now production manager; and Peter Clark is production manager. Also, the head of Rosetta’s UK office Jonathan Ward will relocate to Beijing in January, where his duties will include supervising a new, exclusive partnership with the China National Publications Import and Export Group to distribute their english-language ebooks catalog to libraries, schools, and other institutional accounts in China. Rosetta ceo Arthur Klebanoff notes that “The market in […]
Archives for December 2013
A New Millennium Series Manuscript, and Other Maybe Books
While there are still no signs that the late Stieg Larsson’s unfinished manuscript for what was actually to be the fifth installment in his envisioned 10-book Millennium series will ever be published, the originating publisher in Sweden Norstedts has hired David Lagercrantz to write a fourth installment in the series. In turn, Norstedts has again sold world English rights to Quercus’s MacLehose Press, which says in a release it plans to publish in August 2015. Larsson’s editor at Norstedts Eve Gedin tells a Swedish newspaper, “We are proud and excited to now have signed an agreement with David Lagercrantz who, urged […]
Final Day to Save on Cramer, O’Reilly, Stone, and More
Our colleagues at Digital Book World extended the deadline to take advantage of the last early-pricing for next January’s big conference until midnight tonight — but only if you use this special link. As a Publishers Lunch reader, it gets you both the early pricing across the board, plus our additional 10 percent discount on DBW individual and total access pass tickets. Rather than scrambling when you come back from vacation and prices have gone up, why not take advantage of this opportunity to put Digital Book World on your calendar for the week of January 13 right now. It’s […]
Amazon’s Many Bestseller Lists
As usual, Amazon has released a wealth of bestseller lists for the year. On their site they break out Top 100 lists of print books and ebooks for both adult titles as well as books for kids & teens. (The success of new adult and crossover YA makes that an increasingly hard distinction to draw.) Plus they announced top 20 lists that combine print and ebook sales. (Note that in all cases, Amazon counts only books newly-published in 2013 for these year-end lists.) Their top 20 adult books are: 1. Inferno by Dan Brown 2. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini […]
Favorite Books of 2013, From the News Editor
So many best-of lists, many carefully aggregated on an ongoing basis for our consensus “Best of the Best” collection, but there is always room for one more. My reading year of 2013 gravitated mostly to my usual categories – literary fiction, crime fiction, memoir, and a smattering of biography – with a strong dose of mid-century suspense novels by women (I had good reason). So keep that in mind while examining my list of favorite books published this year: Consensus lists being what they are, several titles on the “Best of the Best” have my enthusiastic endorsement as well. The […]
Bookselling Notes
The new Word Bookstore location in Jersey City had a soft opening over the weekend. Another Barnes & Noble location will close at the end of the year, this one in Pleasantville, CA. The company says the landlord declined to renew their lease. It’s the ninth year-end closing for the chain that we have noted. Russo’s Books in Bakersfield, CA will also close, on January 31, after 24 years in business. The Washington Post offered a “feel good” story about a few independent bookstores that are doing well, in which they amusingly identify Jeff Bezos as “the owner of The […]