After selling a reported 4.8 million copies of her ebooks worldwide, author Barbara Freethy will use Ingram Publisher Services to distribute her work in print worldwide, published through her company Hyde Street Press. The press launches in spring 2015 with four books, including titles from Freethy’s Callaway Series. She expects to issue 6 to 8 books a year in print (having authored 40 titles in all). Freethy will use Ingram’s publishing and inventory management services as well as their print-on-demand worldwide network. At Harper Perennial, Maya Ziv has been promoted to senior editor. At the Washington Post, Carlos Lozada will […]
Archives for October 2014
National Book Award Finalists Announced
On Wednesday morning the finalists were announced for the 65th annual National Book Awards, unveiled on NPR’s Morning Edition along with bookseller Mitchell Kaplan from Books & Books. In nonfiction, the most prominent (and commercial) longlisted author left behind was Walter Isaacson’s THE INNOVATORS, though the sole female candidate in that category, Roz Chast, did make it through as a finalist. Her graphic memoir is also the bestselling nonfiction nominee so far, by a wide margin. The winners will be named at the ceremony on the evening of November 19. In commercial terms, Doerr’s novel has outsold the other four […]
Flanagan Wins the Booker
Australian author Richard Flanagan’s novel THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH won the Booker Prize Tuesday night, beating out a field that included two Americans on the shortlist for the first time. Knopf published the book, Flanagan’s sixth novel, in the US in August, with Chatto & Windus releasing the UK edition earlier this year. Knopf spokesperson Paul Bogaards announced that the publisher will go back to press for an additional 53,000 copies. (The book was already in its fifth printing, although those five printings yielded sales as recorded through Nielsen Bookscan of less than 7,000 print copies.) The BBC […]
Today’s Amazon News: Kindle Scout, Pop-Up Stores, and More
Amazon officially went live with “Kindle Scout,” the service we already reported on that invites writers to submit manuscripts for review by readers and then Amazon Publishing editors, for consideration under a templated publishing deal. (The company has been referring to it as a “reader-powered” publishing program.) They are looking for submissions in the romance, mystery & thriller and sci-fi/fantasy genres. Accepted manuscripts will be published under a new Kindle Press banner. The publishing offer is a $1,500 advance and net royalties of 50 percent for a term of at least 5 years. Separately, Amazon confirms to GeekWire that the company […]
People, Etc.
Kendra Harpster is joining Berkley Books as executive editor, starting Wednesday, October 15. Most recently she was a senior editor at Random House. Iain MacGregor is moving to Simon & Schuster UK as publishing director, non-fiction, reporting to Suzanne Baboneau. He has been publisher at Aurum Press. At Open Road Integrated Media, Sarah Yurch and Emma Pulitzer have been promoted to assistant editor. Jenny Kühne is marketing the Frankfurt Book Fair’s RightsLink licensing service for online permissions, and will be responsible for the networking and further development of other FBF rights activities of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Author Harlan Ellison suffered from a […]
Nicholls Tops November Library Reads List
David Nicholls’ US is the No. 1 pick for the November Library Reads list. The rest of the list recommends: Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover: The Fourth Rule of Scoundrels by Sarah MacLean Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson The Burning Room by Michael Connelly Mortal Heart: His Fair Assassin Trilogy #3 by Robin LaFevers The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes The Forgers by Bradford Morrow In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon edited by Leslie S. Klinger and Laurie R. King Jane and the […]