Amazon announced the retroactive rate at which they will compensate Kindle Unlimited participants for books read (and subscriptions paid for) in January. The per page fell to its lowest point yet, $.00412 per page (about 4/10ths of one cent) — or 10.6 percent lower than the $0.00461 per page a month ago — while the overall pool of money paid out increased to its highest level yet, at $15 million. At the beginning of the month, Amazon had also announced a revised methodology for their universal way of measuring ebook “pages” for calculating those per-page payments. That new method applies starting […]
Authors
Briefs: Clare’s Lawyer Responds to Kenyon Lawsuit; “Birthday Cake” Author Speaks Out; and More
Cassandra Clare‘s lawyer, John Cahill of Cahill Associates, issued a statement Thursday afternoon responding to Sherrilyn Kenyon’s trademark and copyright infringment lawsuit filed against Clare late last week. “Cassie was both surprised and disappointed that Ms. Kenyon would file this baseless lawsuit, a decade after the debut of Cassie’s books. Kenyon is wrong when she claims that Cassandra Clare or her publisher made any agreements about using ‘shadowhunters.’ Cassie never gave Kenyon any assurances regarding this and, although she would have preferred to resolve any concerns that Ms. Kenyon has or may have had, Ms. Kenyon never contacted or spoke […]
Scholastic, Little Brown UK Will Publish Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Play Script on July 31
Scholastic and Little Brown UK will publish the script book of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne, an adaptation and continuation of JK Rowling’s series, just after midnight on July 31. The play premieres on London’s West End on July 30 and features Potter as a 35-year-old parent, and was based on an original new story by Rowling, Thorne and John Tiffany. Scholastic’s Arthur A. Levine Books imprint will publish the rehearsal script — which the press release positions repeatedly as “the eighth Harry Potter story” — as a hardcover in the US and Canada, while Little Brown UK […]
People, Etc.
At Random House, Andrea Walker and Noah Eaker have both been promoted to executive editor; Caitlin McKenna and Kaela Myers have both been promoted to editor; and Mika Kasuga and Molly Turpin have both been promoted to associate editor. At Ballantine Bantam Dell, Sarah Murphy and Anne Speyer have both been promoted to associate editor, and Julia Maguire has been promoted to assistant editor. Gwyneth Stansfield joins Blue Rider Press/Plume as publicity manager on February 8. She was most recently publicity manager at Regan Arts and prior to that worked at Scribner. In addition, Molly Pieper has been promoted to marketing coordinator. Carolyn Pittis has rejoined Welman Digital, a management consulting firm working […]
February Bookseller Picks
Amazon‘s February Best Books of the Month designates Ethan Canin’s splendid new novel A Doubter’s Almanac as its spotlight pick while its featured debut is The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer. The rest of its top choices are: Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel, by Tom Wainwright All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders My Father, the Pornographer, by Chris Offutt The Black Calhouns, by Gail Lumet Buckley Walking the Nile, by Levison Wood Perfect Days, by Raphael Montes Morning Star, by Pierce Brown The Forgetting Time, by Sharon Guskin Green Island, by […]
People, Etc.
At Crown, Julian Pavia has been promoted to executive editor. Porter Anderson is taking over as editor of Publishing Perspectives from Ed Nawotka, who has run the publication since it was founded in 2009. Anderson was associate editor at FutureBooks, where he is replaced by Molly Flatt. In Germany, Piper publisher Michael Hartges will leave his position at the end of the month after 7 years there, following a disagreement with management over editorial direction. At Winter Institute in Denver today, retiring Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis was honored with a proclamation from Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, who appeared before the booksellers […]