A little more than 6 months after entering the digital library market with a pilot program including 1200 backlist Minotaur titles and other titles from romance imprint Entangled, Macmillan has expanded its digital library offerings to include an additional 9,300 backlist titles across all company imprints. That brings the total number of backlist Macmillan titles available for digital lending to approximately 11,000. The news was first reported on Twitter by 3M collection development coordinator Heather McCormack, and Macmillan president of sales Alison Lazarus told us in a statement that “as part of our ongoing evaluation of eLending we have decided […]
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At Grand Central’s Forever and Forever Yours romance imprints, Amy Pierpont has been promoted to editor-in-chief, while Sourcebooks editorial manager Leah Hultenschmidt has joined as editorial director. Lauren Plude moves up to associate editor, reporting to Hultenschmidt, while Megha Parekh has been promoted to assistant editor. At Crown, Danielle Crabtree has been promoted to marketing associate. Separately, Gianna Sandri has joined Crown Archetype as marketing associate. Previously she was a marketing assistant at Pearson Education. In addition, Maren Childs has joined the group ad/promo department as associate web developer. Previously she was at Workman. Brenda Chin will join Belle Books […]
eNews: Kobo Disabled at Whitcoulls; Scholastic’s Ed-Tech; Scribd’s Subscriber Report; and More
WH Smith still has not restored service to their website in the wake of controversy over some of the Kobo ebooks they were offering for sale. In New Zealand, retailer Whitcoulls “has suspended the sale of eBooks through our website.” They write in a site note: “This suspension will remain in place until we can guarantee that any inappropriate material, that has been available through self published eBooks, has been removed from the Kobo eBook catalogue.” But Australian partner Angus & Robertson is still selling what appears to be the full and unexpurgated Kobo catalog (at least judging by a […]
People, Awards, Etc.: Munro, Charkin, Levinson, Potter Postage, and More
Vintage is reprinting a total of 100,000 copies across their backlist of 14 story collections by Nobel laureate Alice Munro. Random House Canada ceo Brad Martin told the Globe and Mail, “As far as we know, we have stock of all of Alice’s active titles,” though booksellers were light on copies and ran out quickly. Indigo placed “nice, substantial orders” for fresh inventory. You can read (or hear) Munro’s short phone call interview with the prize organizers here. She said in a written statement Thursday: “This is so surprising and wonderful. I am dazed by all the attention and affection that has […]
Setterfield Tops November Library List
The new LibraryReads initiative has announced their third monthly list of librarian favorites for November. Their No 1. pick is Diane Setterfield’s new novel, which also appears on the November IndieNext list (as do three other titles.) The full list: Diane Setterfield, Bellman & Black Julia Spencer-Fleming, Through the Evil Days Pat Conroy, The Death of Santini Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else’s Love Story Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement James Whitfield Thompson, Lies You Wanted to Hear P.S. Duffy, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land Barry Maitland, The Raven’s Eye Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis, Death of a Nightingale Mira […]
Brad Stone’s Theory of Everything Jeff Bezos
Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Brad Stone‘s THE EVERYTHING STORE is excerpted on the cover of his employer’s upcoming issue. While the abridgment does not deal directly with Amazon and ceo Jeff Bezos’ relationship with the book trade — presumably such details are best left for the book itself, which will be released on October 15 — it offers a sense of the company’s “notoriously confrontational” corporate culture (which “begins with Bezos, who believes that truth shakes out when ideas and perspectives are banged against each other”), some insight into Bezos’ early childhood (Stone tracked down his biological father, Ted Jorgensen, who […]