I didn’t realize Pete Hamill was the “patriarch of print,” but so says the paper of record in getting the first look at the announcement that at Little, Brown’s suggestion he will publish a short book on immigration in an ebook edition only this fall. Hamill has a September 16 deadline for the 40,000 to 50,000 word manusript for THEY ARE US. Little, Brown did not indicate pricing or a release date.NYT Separately, Open Road has released Jospehine Hart‘s DAMAGE and SIN as ebooks, and will follow shortly with on-demand paperbacks as well.
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eReaders: Asian Producer Predicts More than 10 Million Units, But None of Them, Officially, Will Come from Plastic Logic; Amazon Wants to be Apple?
Chairman of Taiwan-based E Ink Holding Scott Liu says he expects his company’s ereader shipments to double or triple in the second half of 2010 as price cuts drive volume. Liu now anticipates full-year shipments will exceed 10 million units in 2010. He also indicates that “vendors will soon be able to provide sub-US $100 e-book readers judging from the market growth, and E Ink will help clients further lower the production costs.” E Ink Holding produces the screens for clients including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony and Hanvon.DigiTimes Meanwhile, the king of overpriced ereader vaporware Plastic Logic has admitted […]
Library Thing Publisher Pages
LibraryThing.com has launched a new free service, LibraryThing for Publishers, starting with Orbit, Zondervan and three other publishers. Open to all, the new feature is designed to let publishers “showcase their new titles and interact with the LibraryThing community.” The pages display bookshelves of the publishers’ titles, link to LT reviews, and more.DescriptionOrbit Books sample
Indigo Sales and Losses Both Rise, As Kobo Costs Weigh
First quarter results of Canada’s biggest bookseller–or “largest book, gift and specialty toy retailer” as they now describe themselves–Indigo carry an echo of what Barnes & Noble faces right. Same-store sales at their superstores rose by 1.5 percent, while smaller-store comps declined just 0.7 percent and overall sales of $204.3 million (CA) were up $10.7 million or 5.5 percent from a year ago. But their online sales remain flat in the face of Amazon’s growing strength in Canada and the net loss more than doubled, from $2.3 million to $5.3 million. CEO Heather Reisman says “the increased loss is not […]
eNews: Houghton Negotiates with Pat Conroy to Allow Release of Open Road Backlist eBooks, and More
The stalemate over electronic rights to some of Pat Conroy’s backlist titles has been resolved and Open Road is going ahead with ebook release of the titles that they announced almost a year ago. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt spokesperson Lori Glazer tells the AP, “in this instance we negotiated an agreed-upon separation of print from electronic, to our mutual satisfaction.” Arthur Klebanoff at Rosetta Books, who had published an ebook version of The Prince of Tides, says: “Did I want to renew this license? The answer is ‘Yes.’ But until the arrival of the Kindle, you had a tiny, tiny marketplace. […]
Dorchester: Digital, or Desperate?
Dorchester Publishing has switched to subsistence mode, though they have tried to sprinkle some digital fairy dust over the move. The mass market publisher has struggled for some time, now. At the beginning of the year they sold both frontlist and backlist titles from many of their top authors to Avon–an imprint of their distributor, HarperCollins. Earlier this summer, the Romance Writers of America reportedly cancelled Dorchester’s participation in their annual conference because the company was “past due in fulfilling contractual obligations to some of their authors.” And company president John Prebich confirmed to the media last Friday that their […]