Scot Kuehm has joined Princeton University Press as associate director and chief financial officer. Previously he was cfo & coo at Oxford University Press. In addition, Colleen Boyle has been promoted to publicist. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s: Cara Llewellyn has been promoted to associate art director; Opal Roengchai has been promoted to designer; Anne Hoppe has moved up to vp, associate publisher, senior executive editor at Clarion; and Bethany Vinhateiro and Alex Preziosi have both been promoted to editor, franchise publishing. Elsewhere at HMH, Jackie Shepherd has been promoted to associate designer. A memorial service for the late Loretta Barrett will be held May 7 at St. Peter’s Cathedral on Lexington Avenue […]
Archives for April 2015
Awards: Indies Choice Winners, PEN Shortlists, and More
The winners of the Indies Choice Book Awards were announced Thursday afternoon: Adult Fiction: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) Adult Nonfiction: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan) Adult Debut: The Martian by Andy Weir (Crown) Young Adult: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Winners of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards are: Middle Reader: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books) Picture Book: Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Candlewick) Additionally, Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer will jointly […]
KU for March: New High for the Pool But Almost A New Low Per Book
Earlier this week Amazon made their monthly announcement of how much money they would retroactively chose to share with self-published authors whose work was read via the Kindle Unlimited subscription program. The total pool allocated for March reached a new high, of $9.3 million. Borrows were robust as well, at approximately 6.956 million — which left authors with a payment of $1.337 per read. That’s the second-lowest payment per read since the initiative launched, just above the $1.33 per read paid for October 2014.
Bookselling: Sales Fall Another 4 Percent at WHSmith; Looking Glass Books For Sale; and More
WHSmith reported interim half-year results (ending February 28) with sales at their High Street stores were down 5 percent, with same store sales also down 4 percent. Profits for that segment increased 2 percent (or £1m) to £50m, as “strong gross margin performance and costs were tightly controlled” saving costs of £6m over the six-month period with another £5m set to be cut in the second half. The numbers remain consistent with their fiscal 2014 results, in which High Street store sales fell 6 percent and same-store sales fell 5 percent, with book sales declining 8 percent. Release Looking Glass […]
People, Etc.
At Running Press, Jordana Tusman has been promoted to senior editor. After the London Book Fair wraps up today, there will be a memorial service in London tomorrow for former Random House UK deputy chairman Simon Master, who died in January. The service is at 11 at St Luke’s Church, Sydney Street, with a 12.15 reception in the Culford Room, Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace. Announcements Vintage Books’ Vintage Shorts imprint will release 31 short story ebooks, including originals by Alexander McCall Smith, Hari Kunzru, Maeve Binchy, Patricio Pron, and Carrie Brown, during the month of May (one each day) to celebrate Short Story Month. […]
Scribd Adds Penguin Random House…For Audio
Up until now Penguin Random House has not participated in any of the major ebook subscription offerings, but the publisher has a new exclusive with Scribd for audiobooks. [N.B.: Scribd described the deal as exclusive, but PRH noted after this ran “that Scribd is not the only retailer offering audiobooks on a subscription basis. Our audio titles have been available for a number of years via a multiple retailers with various subscription models, including Audible, Audiobooks.com, and Overdrive in the library market, among others.”] PRH is making available more than 9,000 audio titles for unlimited listening as part of Scribd’s subscription program (which […]