With a Friday deadline looming (as we described on Monday), attorneys for Apple have asked the US Supreme Court to extend the time in which they can file a petition for a writ of certiorari — the mechanism by which they ask the high court to hear an appeal of the verdict finding them guilty of antitrust violations in launching the iBooks Store. They have asked for the one month delay that is allowed for, moving the filing deadline from September 28 to October 28. As we noted in the earlier report, the request goes to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who oversees such […]
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At NetGalley, Kristina Radke has been promoted to international account director, responsible for sales and account management in North America, the UK and Australia. In the UK, agent Penny Holroyde and former Hodder Children’s art director Claire Cartey launched Holroyde Cartey earlier in the year, an agency representing both authors and illustrators. Alex Christofi has joined Oneworld as editor, nonfiction. Previously he was an agent at Conville & Walsh. Diya Kar Hazra has been appointed publisher of Pan Macmillan India, reporting to Rajdeep Mukherjee. Previously Hazra was founding publisher of Bloomsbury India.
Coates, Smith on National Book Award Nonfiction Longlist
The National Book Awards announced their nonfiction longlist Wednesday morning, with roughly half of the ten books on the list falling into the memoir category (including the much-acclaimed and strong-selling book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith’s chronicle of her life.) The full list includes: Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Crown) Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau) Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press) Sally Mann, Hold Still (Little, Brown) Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus (Atria) Susanna Moore, Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawai’i (FSG) Michael Paterniti, […]
Funke Breaks with US and UK Publishers Over Editing; Will Launch Own Publisher
International bestselling author Cornelia Funke is parting ways with both Little, Brown Children’s in the US and Chicken House in the UK after disagreeing with editorial requests from each house. Instead, she will publish the third volume in her Mirrorworld series, The Golden Yarn, through her company, Breathing Books, in November. In both cases, the publishers have reverted rights to the first two books in the series to Funke, and Breathing Books will re-release the first two titles in November as well. Funke will use the UK titles for all three books. (In the US, the first two books were […]
Amazon KU Payment Drops 11 Percent For August
Amazon decided — as usual, in their sole judgment, based on undisclosed data — that they will pay KDP Select authors a total of $11.8 million for Kindle Unlimited subscription reading in August. That’s up from the $11.3 million pool divided up for July. But with the money being shared across 2.3 billion pages read, Amazon’s per-page payment dropped considerably. Going down to roughly $0.00514 per page (about half of one cent) from $0.005779 per page in July may look modest visually, but as authors were quick to note on online forums, that equates to an 11 percent decrease in the […]
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Pippa White has joined Chronicle Books as associate editor. Previously she was an assistant editor at Grand Central. Publishing Technology has hired Scott Winner for the new position of evp of global projects, overseeing how the company delivers its innovations to customers and Xin He as technical liaison engineer, China. As Knopf prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary, Dave Eggers writes a short piece on Sonny Mehta, “himself an institution.” Mehta notes of his arrival at Knopf to succeed Robert Gottlieb: “I was walking into a storm. If you had taken bets on how long I’d survive, it wouldn’t have been very long. To be […]