Even though the success of the TV version of Gossip Girl has, more or less, given the backlist of Cecily von Ziegesar’s series a healthy sales uptick, the same cannot be said for the audiobooks, with “consistently moribund” sales of less than 1,000 yearly according to BookScan. “The teen and the late-teen market has been a really tough market for us,” said Anthony Goff, publisher of Hachette Audio and Digital Media. So Hachette has teamed up with Warner Video and those who buy the first season of the show on DVD will also get the audiobook of book one, narrated […]
Film/TV
No Potter Film Tie-in This Year
Warner Bros. has decided not to release their film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince this November, debuting it on July 17, 2009 instead. Warner president Alan Horn says the film would have been ready as scheduled but they want to take advantage of the “relative dearth” of big films next summer (as a result of the production lag from the writers strike). “It feels like we have an opportunity in the summer,” Horn said. As the LAT notes, “the shift in schedule is already roiling Potter fans, who are among the most intense devotees in contemporary pop […]
Alloy's Books Fuel Movies and TV
Out of hiding again with their undetermined role in the Kavya Viswanthan incident ancient history, Alloy Entertainment is the focus of an LAT profile for the growing profile of screen adaptations of their teen books. “This fall, television network the CW will air a second season of Gossip Girl and launch Privileged, while ABC Family will air the three-day miniseries Samurai Girl early next month. All three shows are based on Alloy books.” Plus there’s the second Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie and another film, Sex Drive, set for October, long with The Clique, a made-for-DVD movie. “When it […]