Smashwords announced two deals this week: 200,000 of their titles will be available for sale to libraries worldwide through OverDrive. To make things easier for librarians, the two are also “creating curated lists of Smashwords bestsellers and popular genres,” offering for sale collections of the top 100, 500 or 1,000 bestselling Smashwords authors. Separately, 250,000 Smashwords ebooks will become part of txtr’s international ebook catalog.
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Expansions: Alloy Powered By Amazon, and OverDrive’s Network
Just about a year ago Alloy Entertainment paired with Amazon as the first big licensee in the Kindle Worlds fan fiction initiative, and in February Alloy added more licenses to the program. Now, PL has learned via our comprehensive deal reports that Alloy is starting a book imprint as part of the “Powered By Amazon” initiative. That program was first created in late 2010 for Seth Godin’s The Domino Project line. At that time, Amazon described the program as “enabl[ing] authors to use Amazon’s global distribution, multiple format production capabilities, including print, audio and digital, as well as Amazon’s personalized, targeted marketing […]
Healey’s ELIZABETH IS MISSING Tops June LibraryReads List
Emma Healey’s debut novel ELIZABETH IS MISSING leads off June’s LibraryReads list. Other books on the list include: China Dolls, by Lisa See The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street, by Susan Jane Gilman I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, by Courtney Maum The Matchmaker, by Elin Hilderbrand Summer House with Swimming Pool, by Herman Koch The Lobster Kings, by Alexi Zentner The Hurricane Sisters, by Dorothea Benton Frank The Quick, by Lauren Owen Rogues, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Lockhart’s WE WERE LIARS Tops May’s LibraryReads List
E. Lockhart’s YA novel WE WERE LIARS tops the May LibraryReads list. Also appearing is Laline Paull’s debut novel THE BEES, which like the Lockhart is among the 40 titles you can preview right now in our free ebook, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2014: Spring/Summer. (Paull’s novel made the May Indie Next list as well.) The LibraryReads list also includes: Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See Ruth Reichl, Delicious! Liz Trenow, The Forgotten Seamstress Josh Malerman, Bird Box Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, Bittersweet Molly Wizenberg, Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage Darynda Jones, Sixth Grave on the Edge […]
Zevin’s AJ FIKRY Leads April LibraryReads List
Gabrielle Zevin’s THE STORIED LIFE OF AJ FIKRY, already named the #1 IndieNext pick for April, now also tops the April LibraryReads list. Also appearing is Nina Stibbe’s LOVE, NINA, which is among the 40 titles you can preview right now in our free ebook, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2014: Spring/Summer. The LibraryReads list also includes: Emma Donoghue, Frog Music Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night Simone St. James, Silence for the Dead Donna Leon, By Its Cover Shane Kuhn, The Intern’s Handbook Colin Cotterill, The Axe Factor Akhil Sharma, Family Life Erin Duffy, On The Rocks
Laura McHugh Tops March LibraryReads List
Laura McHugh’s psychological suspense novel THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD leads the March LibraryReads list, with the remaining titles featuring: The Accident, Chris Pavone The Divorce Papers, Susan Reiger The Outcast Dead, Elly Griffiths Panic, Lauren Oliver A Circle of Wives, Alice LaPlante Gemini, Carol Cassella Precious Thing, Colette McBeth Kill Fee, Owen Laukkanen Show Your Work!, Austin Kleon