Vook is rolling out more broadly their ebook sales tracking tool, that lets you aggregate sales data from author/publisher accounts at multiple major ebookstores into a consolidated dashboard. The Frankfurt Book Fair is working with Zappos ceo Tony Hsieh’s The Downtown Project in Las Vegas on the VivaCo:Lab, “an event platform and community.” Tony Hsieh. Their “goal is to accelerate innovation in storytelling and set the stage for a more profitable future for publishers and all creative media industries.” Crown Forum has announced a marketing partnership with Cox Media’s Rare.us, “to bring conservative writers to a new and broader readership.” […]
Archives for March 2014
BEA Names This Year’s Buzz Book Panels
Book Expo America announced the books that will featured at this year’s convention on the three Buzz Books panels. The adult panel features two works of nonfiction this year, and three debuts (from Thomas, Burton and Walsh). Adult Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf) We Are Not Ourselves, by Matthew Thomas (S&S) The Miniaturist, by Jessie Burton (Ecco) On Immunity: An Inoculation, by Eula Biss (Graywolf Press) My Sunshine Away, by M.O. Walsh (Amy Einhorn Books) Neverhome, by Laird Hunt (Little, Brown) The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for […]
People: NYT’s Julie Bosman Leaves Publishing Beat As Paper’s Midwest Correspondent, and More
After four years of covering publishing at the New York Times, Julie Bosman is rotating to her “dream job” of working as a Midwest correspondent for the paper in April, based in their Chicago office. (Bosman grew up in Wisconsin.) The memo from national editor Alison Mitchell and deputy national editor Ethan Bronner, reproduced by Capital New York, does not indicate who will take over the publishing beat. In other personnel news, Readerlink svp, marketing and inventory Tara Catogge is moving to Quarto Publishing Group USA as vp, sales director, Publishing Trends reports. Shimul Tolia has been named president of Bonnier […]
Ingram Unit Buys CourseSmart
Ingram’s VitalSource announced Monday it has acquired the assets of CourseSmart, the online textbook venture created in 2007 by a coalition of the field’s dominant publishers, including Macmillan, Cengage Learning, Wiley, McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson. CourseSmart has millions of users around the world and “offers access to over 90 percent of core higher education titles as e-textbooks along with the largest catalog of e-resources and digital course materials.” Ingram says “CourseSmart’s strengths in inventory, instructor sampling and analytics will be integrated with Vital Source’s reader platform and global, scalable distribution network. By combining the two organizations, Vital Source will offer the world’s largest […]
December Lawsuit Alleging Fraud May Shed Light on Macadam/Cage Bankruptcy
The first creditors meeting in the Macadam/Cage Chapter 7 bankruptcy case was held on February 25 at the trustee office in San Francisco, with more creditors expecting to file notices in the court. As the case continues, a lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court on December 4 by former employee Dorothy Smith may help illuminate why Macadam/Cage began liquidation proceedings just two weeks later. A graphic designer who was employed by Macadam/Cage from January 2001 through December 2011 (and consulted for them thereafter from January through June 2012), Smith sued for the repayment of loans made to the company […]
Corporate: F+W Expands Burda Deal; OverDrive Acquisition; Osprey Games
F+W Media has expanded their licensing deal from 2013 to develop Burda Style USA, into a broader 50/50 joint venture with Burda Media “to run the brand Burda Style in the USA and Canada, as well as the UK digital activities of Burda Style.” F+W ceo David Nussbaum says in the release, “This joint venture brings together two of the largest entities serving the craft market and represents the next stage of our trusted partnership with the Burda team. Through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, F+W Media has expanded its reach in the US craft market serving tens of millions of consumers […]