After selling a reported 4.8 million copies of her ebooks worldwide, author Barbara Freethy will use Ingram Publisher Services to distribute her work in print worldwide, published through her company Hyde Street Press. The press launches in spring 2015 with four books, including titles from Freethy’s Callaway Series. She expects to issue 6 to 8 books a year in print (having authored 40 titles in all). Freethy will use Ingram’s publishing and inventory management services as well as their print-on-demand worldwide network. At Harper Perennial, Maya Ziv has been promoted to senior editor. At the Washington Post, Carlos Lozada will […]
Awards
National Book Award Finalists Announced
On Wednesday morning the finalists were announced for the 65th annual National Book Awards, unveiled on NPR’s Morning Edition along with bookseller Mitchell Kaplan from Books & Books. In nonfiction, the most prominent (and commercial) longlisted author left behind was Walter Isaacson’s THE INNOVATORS, though the sole female candidate in that category, Roz Chast, did make it through as a finalist. Her graphic memoir is also the bestselling nonfiction nominee so far, by a wide margin. The winners will be named at the ceremony on the evening of November 19. In commercial terms, Doerr’s novel has outsold the other four […]
Flanagan Wins the Booker
Australian author Richard Flanagan’s novel THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH won the Booker Prize Tuesday night, beating out a field that included two Americans on the shortlist for the first time. Knopf published the book, Flanagan’s sixth novel, in the US in August, with Chatto & Windus releasing the UK edition earlier this year. Knopf spokesperson Paul Bogaards announced that the publisher will go back to press for an additional 53,000 copies. (The book was already in its fifth printing, although those five printings yielded sales as recorded through Nielsen Bookscan of less than 7,000 print copies.) The BBC […]
Nicholls Tops November Library Reads List
David Nicholls’ US is the No. 1 pick for the November Library Reads list. The rest of the list recommends: Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover: The Fourth Rule of Scoundrels by Sarah MacLean Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson The Burning Room by Michael Connelly Mortal Heart: His Fair Assassin Trilogy #3 by Robin LaFevers The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes The Forgers by Bradford Morrow In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon edited by Leslie S. Klinger and Laurie R. King Jane and the […]
Briefs: Hachette Launches Author Portal, Yale Moves Up Modiano
Hachette Book Group has launched their Author and Agent Portal as a “channel” within their business-facing site hachettebookgroup.biz. Similar to portals from Simon & Schuster, Random House and others, it includes unit sales information by title, weekly Nielsen BookScan sales data, an “interactive publication timeline for the 12 months prepublication,” a feature for sending large files between author and editor, and an online-piracy-reporting tool. Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch says in the announcement, “The Portal is designed to add transparency to the publishing experience by making sales data and resources readily available and easy to use to authors and agents, our valued partners in the […]
Modiano Wins Nobel Literature Prize, and More Awards
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to the French author Patrick Modiano. In their citation, the prize judges commended Modiano “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.” As with the most recent French Nobel laureate, J.M.G. Le Clezio in 2008, few of Modiano’s more than 30 novels have been translated into English. The most recent translation was DORA BRUDER/THE SEARCH WARRANT, published in the US by the University of California Press (1999) and in the UK by Harvill Secker (2000). But Yale University Press is scheduled to […]