Crown has announced the title for Ann Coulter‘s latest, publishing June 7: DEMONIC: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America. If you need or want an explanation, the release is here. A large fire closed a large area in downtown Brattleboro, VT on Sunday night, striking the building in which The Book Cellar is located (along with nine other businesses). According to local reports the fire itself struck the fourth and fifth floors of the building the most severly. The Book Cellar’s Ana McDaniel told a local news station, “We are in shock right now. It is a bit of […]
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eNews: ABC Launches Video eBooks; Staples Stocks Nook Color; Kindle DX Price Drop; Disappointment with Blackberry Playbook; and More
Talk about burying the lead. Hyperion had announced the release of Jane Green’s enhanced ebook, A Modern Fairy Tale: William, Kate, and Three Generations of Royal Love but didn’t underscore what looks to be the interesting business news. Their corporate television partner is participating in a line of ABC Video Books, and has launched their own video bookstore app for the iOS to sell those ebooks directly, using Apple’s in-app purchasing program. The ebook line, which also includes THE AMANDA KNOX STORY: A Murder in Perugia, is available through other major etailers as well. ABC says the ebooks “will draw […]
eBook Sales Set Another Record, But Can’t Outpace the Decline in Print
eBooks indisputably comprise a significant portion of trade revenues following the Christmas boom in ereading-capable devices, confirmed by another record ebook sales tally from among the 14 publishers who report. The AAP data also shows what publishers’ net shipments look like in a world in which no one is sending books to Borders. February ebook sales totaled $90.3 million, significantly ahead of the record $69.9 million reported the previous month. In January ebooks were the second-largest trade segment, behind trade paperbacks, but in February they moved ahead as the single largest-selling format (with trade paperbacks at $81.2 million). Just as […]
Shatzkin Files, Compiled
An unabridged collection of the first two years of consultant Mike Shatzkin’s publishing strategy blog The Shatzkin Files has been released as an ebook, billed at roughly 800 pages and listing for $3.99. Kobo, which first suggested the publication to Shatzkin, has an exclusive on the title for the first 60 days. eBook link
People, Etc.
Philip Patrick has joined Amazon as senior leader, rights and licensing. He was most recently with Crown as publisher of Three Rivers Press and publisher of ebooks and digital content. Severn House, Canongate Books and Granta Publications will now be digitally distributed by Ingram‘s Coresource. The shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has been announced, with the winner to be named in late May: SERIOUS MEN by Manu Joseph (John Murray) COMFORT AND JOY by India Knight (Fig Tree) THE COINCIDENCE ENGINE by Sam Leith (Bloomsbury) THE NEWS WHERE YOU ARE by Catherine O’Flynn (Penguin) SUPER […]
At LBF, Questions of Digital Revolution vs. Evolution
As book fair business unfolds in rather traditional fashion–23,000 people having meetings with each other–a number of panels aired the anxiety-making question of the digital era: Is this revolution or evolution, and who of those 23,000 survives and prospers in that transition? An international panel of executives took on that topic in one of this morning’s panels, with Penguin ceo John Makinson beginning the conversation by allowing that “I’ve never been in a revolution…but it certainly doesn’t feel like evolution when I come in to the office every day.” Makinson noted that “at every step of the way something dramatic […]