Crown has set a 1.5 million-copy first printing for George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points, due out on November 9. There will also be an enhanced e-book edition featuring video highlights of Bush’s presidency, photographs not included in the hardcover book and personal correspondence.AP
The November 2010 Indie Next List
#1 Pick: Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane Mr. Toppit: A Novel by Charles Elton The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Wolves of Andover: A Novel by Kathleen Kent Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel by Armistead Maupin After the Falls: Coming of Age in the Sixties by Catherine Gildiner Driving on the Rim: A Novel by Thomas McGuane Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff Exley: A Novel by Brock Clarke Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow Sunset Park: A Novel by Paul Auster Lipstick in Afghanistan by Roberta Gately […]
People, Etc.
Y.S. Chi has been appointed president of the International Publishers Association, effective January 1. He is Vice Chairman and CEO of Elsevier Science & Technology, and is also a member of the AAP Board of Directors. Michelle Paver has won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for Ghost Hunter, the sixth and final novel in her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series.Guardian A memorial for Les Pockell will be held on Tuesday, October 12 at 5 PM at The Proshansky Auditorium at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue @ 35th Street. A reception will follow. Spanish language digital publisher Red Ediciones […]
People and Announcements
Europa Editions has launched Tonga Books, a new imprint focusing on dark, literary titles that will be acquired and curated by Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold. Its first title, scheduled for a Fall 2011 release, is You Deserve Nothing by Iowa Writers Workshop student Alexander Miksik. Seamus Heaney has won the Forward Prize for his poetry collection Human Chain.Guardian Nicole Rudick has been named managing editor of The Paris Review. Previously she was managing editor for Bookforum. Alyson Sinclair has joined City Lights Books as publicity and marketing associate. Previously she worked for FSG. Crown has announced a November 16 […]
French Publishers Revolt Against Wylie’s E-Business Practices
Once Andrew Wylie and Random House settled their summertime differences over who controlled the e-rights to select backlist titles, all had been quiet on the Odyssey Editions front – or so it seems. But an open letter published in today’s Bookseller Daily indicates the French Publishers Association (SNE) is still very unhappy with Wylie for setting up shop as a digital publisher, and that at least four publishers – including Gallimard, which represents about 50% of Wylie’s rights business in the country – stopped doing business with the agency starting in July. The letter, which includes 50 signatories such as […]
People and Announcements
Yale University Press has announced a slate of promotions in its marketing and sales department. Heather D’Auria has been named director of marketing and promotion, Brenda King is now publicity director, Stephen Cebik has been promoted to senior sales manager, art and digital publishing, and Ivan Lett has been promoted to online marketing coordinator. Johanna Brinton has joined Overdrive as Director of Business Development for Europe, where she will manage the company’s expanded EU publisher services, retail, and eCommerce businesses. At Free Press, Jill Siegel has been promoted to Associate Director of Publicity. Faber will provide digital distribution for 18 […]