Little, Brown Children’s says that they sold over 350,000 copies of Stephenie Meyer’s THE SHORT SECOND LIFE OF BREE TANNER in the first 48 hours of sale in the US. They also tabulate that 15,000 people around the world have read the free online version “in its entirety.” (In 2007 her third book ECLIPSE sold an estimated 150,000 copies in its first day; in 2008 the publisher estimated first day says for BREAKING DAWN of 1.3 million copies.) Publisher Megan Tingley says in the announcement “we have every confidence that with the upcoming Eclipse movie release that Bree’s shelf life […]
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Farbey Joins Scholastic In New Global Nonfiction Post, and More People, Etc.
Scholastic has hired Miriam Farbey for the new position of global publisher, nonfiction in their trade publishing division. She will oversee all children’s trade nonfiction publishing, reporting to trade division president Ellie Berger. Farbey was most recently global publisher at DK. Based in Scholastic’s UK off, she started June 1. James Jayo is joining Globe Pequot Press as an editor for Lyons Press. He had been an associate manager of foreign rights at Crown and before that was an associate editor at Arcade. Anna Bliss is joining Globe Pequot Press as an editor-at-large for Lyons Press. She was previously at […]
Online Reading
At noon today Stephenie Meyer‘s novella THE SHORT SECOND LIFE OF BREE TANNER will be readable online for free.Bree Tanner site The New Yorker has three stories from their new 20 under 40 issue–by Gary Shteyngart, Salvatore Scibona, and Rivka Galchen–available at open online links. And the editors of the magazine discuss their choices here. “What we have tried to do, in selecting the writers featured in this issue, is to offer a focussed look at the talent sprouting and blooming around us. These writers (stories by eight of them appear here; twelve more will follow, one at a time, […]
Borders: Two Heads Are Better Than One
Borders ceo search is over as the company awards the title to two men. Bennet LeBow further confirmed the extent to which he has taken over the company by making himself chief executive officer of Borders Group as well as chairman of its board. Interim ceo Mike Edwards will stay on as well, keeping the titles of president and ceo of Borders, Inc. running the US bookselling business and reporting to LeBow. Edwards joined Borders last September. He tells Reuters, “Ben has a very sound financial background, understands capital markets, is very astute in managing liquidity in turnaround situations and […]
People, Etc.
On Simon & Schuster’s distribution side, Frank Nunez has been promoted to vp, business operations, reporting to Joe D’Onofrio. Tuttle Publishing will distribute Shanghai Press and Publishing Development Company’s English-language books about China. At McGraw-Hill Professional’s business group, Stephanie Frerich and Leila Porteous have both joined the unit as editors. Frerich was at Ivan R. Dee; Porteous was at Grand Central. In a completely different 40-under-40 list, HarperCollins director of publicity Tina Andreadis has been named to the Greek America Foundation’s list honoring young leaders. Barefoot Books officially announced the opening of their relocated “flagship” children’s bookstore, now in Concord, […]
People, Etc.
Toby Ernst joins the Random House Publishing Group as domestic rights manager on June 7. She has been subsidiary rights manager at Sterling since 2004. Thomas Nelson is expanding their children’s publshing team: Molly Kempf is joining the unit as editorial director (she was a senior editor at Scholastic); Mackenzie Howard has been promoted to acquisitions editor for children’s books and gift books; and Jennifer Deshler moves over to vp of marketing and publishing process for children’s and gift product. Ullstein Buchverlage has appointed Barbara Tolley & Associates as their exclusive US scout from July 1 for all their imprints: […]