Jonathan Cape Children‘s, which has been publishing new picture books and backlist titles by Roald Dahl and Joan Aiken, will now publish new fiction, led Random House Children’s UK publisher Annie Eaton. In a statement she said she would acquire “some very special future children’s classics.” RHCP m.d. Philippa Dickinson added: “Annie has an enviable track record for publishing established literary greats as well as debut fiction. She has a knack for seeking out new names, and nurturing them to become commercial and award winning successes, as can be seen with Wonder by R J Palacio and Itch by Simon […]
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Amazon Gives Their Children’s Imprints Names
Amazon has given their children’s book publishing more distinctive imprint names to work with than just “Amazon Children’s.” Picture books are being published under the Two Lions banner and teen books are listed under the Skyscape name. The imprint names and logos are introduced in the Amazon Children’s Publishing catalog from their Brilliance Publishing unit, which distributes those titles. Amazon’s children’s publishing program incorporates the more than 450 titles they acquired in late 2011 from Marshall Cavendish as well as the titles they have been acquiring directly. (As with other Amazon imprints, some of those acquisitions include books that were […]
More Data and Insights from Publishers Launch Children’s
Our Publishers Launch conference Children’s Publishing Goes Digital on Tuesday was a terrific event, and we’ll have more of our own to share from the presentations later in the week. (Our first report from Tuesday is here.) In the meantime, you can check out a long overview from Shelf Awareness, a piece at PW on the Bowker/Bookigee data, and multiple pieces at DigitalBookWorld.com, including one on Peter Hildick-Smith at Codex Group’s data on how and where children and parents discover books.
Kids Retain Strong Preference for Print, As Influence of Online Bookstores and Friends Rises
Bookigee founder Kristen McLean and Bowker executive Carl Kulo kicked off this morning’s Publishers Launch conference Children’s Publishing Goes Digital with updated data findings from fall 2012, the latest installment in their ongoing analysis of the purchase and discovery of children’s books. McLean underscored the overall stability of the children’s book market: As to “the fear–that we were going to lose readers” with the rise of other electronic media, “there’s no data we’ve seen to support the idea that kids are reading less, and we’ve seen some data to support the idea that kids are reading more. We really believe […]
Boys Are Showing More Interest In Reading, But Girls Report Less Love for Books
Scholastic releases the fourth edition of their bi-annual survey, looking at views on reading of kids ages 6 to 17 and their parents. (The full survey comes out at 11, so much as we don’t like to write up press releases only when looking at data, that’s what we had to work with this morning.) Perhaps the best news in the survey is that among boys, they found an increase in “reading enjoyment”–26 percent say they love reading and 47 percent attest to the importance of reading for fun, up from 20 percent and 39 percent respectively in 2010. The […]
New for Children: Another Scholastic Original Series
Also forthcoming is a new “multi-platform” house-created series from Scholastic, in the vein of their successful 39 Clues and Infinity Ring lines. SPIRIT ANIMALS is their first fantasy series in this format, and it launches September 10, 2013, with the first title–WILD BORN–written by Brandon Mull and another in January 2014 by Maggie Stiefvater. The series “centers around the fantasy world of Erdas where children who come of age go through a ritual to determine if they have a ‘spirit animal,’ a rare bond between human and beast that bestows great powers to both. Four children from different cultures undergo […]