On the eve of his 85th birthday Tuesday, Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s international bestseller 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE is now available in ebook format in multiple Spanish-speaking countries thanks to a co-publishing arrangement between Garcia Marquez’s longtime print publisher Random House Mondadori and Spanish ebook company Leer-e. It’s the fourth book by Garcia Marquez to be published in a digital edition, as CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD, LIVING TO TELL THE TALE, and THE STORY OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR were previously released in November 2010. (The digital list price for SOLITUDE is 5.82 euros before tax, and is available […]
OverDrive Acquires Booki.sh
OverDrive acquired Australian cloud-based ebook discovery site Booki.sh (not to be confused with still-to-launch US-based ebook discovery site Bookish) for an undisclosed sum. Booki.sh founders and principals Joseph Pearson, Virginia Murdoch and Peter Haasz will join OverDrive from their existing offices in Melbourne to expand the global distributor’s publishing, library and school initiatives. OverDrive in turn will expand the Booki.sh distribution and digital bookstore platforms as well as integrate Booki.sh HTML5 and EPUB reading technologies into OverDrive library and school services. “Joseph, Virginia and the Booki.sh team have created a fresh, direct and immersive reading experience that uniquely serves the […]
People, Etc.
Senior editor of the New York Times Book Review (and husband of novelist Amy Waldman) Alexander Star will join Farrar, Straus and Giroux as a senior editor on April 2. Before moving to the book review, Star was deputy editor of the NYT Magazine. Earlier in his career he was founding editor of the Boston Globe’s Ideas section and editor of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life. At Canada’s Douglas & McIntyre, co-founder Scott McIntyre will give up his role as CEO on July 1, though he will remain actively involed and continue as chairman. Current director, operations and […]
Cheryl Strayed’s Wild Tops April Indie Next List
Here are the April picks: #1. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheyrl Strayed The Cove: A Novel, by Ron Rash The Book of Jonas: A Novel, by Stephen Dau Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art, by Christopher Moore Angelmaker: A Novel, by Nick Harkaway The Gods of Gotham: A Novel, by Lyndsay Faye The Beginner’s Goodbye: A Novel, by Anne Tyler The Book of Madness and Cures: A Novel, by Regina O’Melveny The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac: A Novel, by Kris D’Agostino Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son, by Anne Lamott, […]
Doubts About Veracity Cloud Deborah Feldman Memoir
Deborah Feldman’s memoir UNORTHODOX, detailing her Satmar Hasidic upbringing and how she eventually broke from it a few years ago, was no stranger to controversy even before its February 14 publication date. Close-knit communities are almost never happy about having their customs aired to a larger public, especially by someone, like Feldman, whose book details many grievances she had with her onetime way of life. Prominent appearances on “The View” and a feature article in the New York Post likely exacerbated matters. But post-publication a number of serious charges have emerged as to whether UNORTHODOX stretched the truth on multiple […]
People, Etc.
Deputy CEO of DK John Duhigg will step up to global CEO of the publisher at the beginning of April, and will join the Penguin Group Board as well. Current ceo Peter Field is preparing to retire from Penguin at the end of the year after a 35-year career at the company. Between April and the year-end, Field “will retain his current responsibilities for Penguin in Australia and New Zealand and take on a range of international projects across the company.” F+W Media will launch Prologue Books, a new imprint devoted to reissuing out-of-print hardboiled and pulp novels originally published between […]