Farrar, Straus is launching an imprint under the Scientific American name, with Hill and Wang publisher Thomas LeBien running the new line as well. They will publish “a select number of titles that extend Scientific American’s 165-year tradition of bringing the insights and developments in science and technology to the widest possible readership.” Scientific American is also part of parent company Macmillan. Amanda Johnson Moon joins FSG as senior editor on August 9 and will oversee acquisitions for the new imprint. She has editing freelance after working at Basic Books. Norton has hired Peter Kay for the new position of […]
New Imprints
Announcements: Topical McCullough eSerial; Getting Glued to Favorite Books; Candlewick's Audio; Horrid Henry Moves to Film
Capitalizing on President Obama’s confrontation with General Stanley McChrystal, Simon & Schuster is releasing a short ebook by David McCullough called TRUMAN FIRES MACARTHUR. It’s an excerpt from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman. The 35-page title lists for $1.99 and is supposed to be available from major ebooksellers by some time later today. Yesterday afternoon GetGlue launched a Foursquare-inspired pop culture iOS app that encourages users to “check in” to favorite TV shows, music, movies and yes, books, and see what friends are enjoying in real-time. Publishing partners providing “exclusive stickers” as “rewards” include Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, […]
More Announcements: Hearst Renews, Indigo's Teen Awards
Hearst Magazines has renewed its long-term trademark licensing agreement with Sterling that grants them the rights to create and publish books under the Hearst Books imprint. Sterling has worked with Hearst for nine years. Indigo is running a new Teen Read Awards program in which teen readers can vote for favorite books, authors and characters in ten nominated categories. As the chain underscores in their announcement, “the teen books category has grown by 150% and has become the second largest at Indigo and Chapters, after adult fiction.”Release
Little, Brown Crime Imprint Details
Little, Brown will call their new crime imprint Mulholland Books (named for the road in the Hollywood Hills that is “synonymous with drama and suspense.”) The line will launch in spring 2011, starting with books by Marcia Clark, Lawrence Block, Mark Billingham, Michael Robotham, Duane Swierczynski, Sebastian Rotella, and Daniel Woodrell. They intend to grow to 24 books a year by 2012, with a new hardcover and one paperback each month. Miriam Parker is marketing director for the imprint.
New Line of Jewish Bios from Yale
Yale University Press is launching a new biographyseries, Jewish Lives, as “a collaboration with the Leon D. Black Foundation,” acquired for the press by Ileene Smith, who is editorial director of the line. Black is credited with conceiving the line in answer to a question from one of his sons about the meaning of Jewish identity. Black writes, “I see this library of biography as a powerful opportunity for Jewish families, congregations, schools, and general readers to enrich with pride their understanding of Jewish life through history.” Historians Anita Shapira of Tel Aviv University and Steven J. Zipperstein of Stanford […]
Amazon Adds Crossing, New Imprint for Fiction In Translation
The etailer announced a new imprint today, Amazon Crossing, which will publish English-language translation of works from other languages, starting with Tierno Monénembo’s French novel (and winner of the prix Renaudot) THE KING OF KAEL, translated by Nicholas Elliott. Run by vp of books Jeff Belle, he says “our international customers have made us aware of exciting established and emerging voices from other cultures and countries that have not been translated for English-language readers.” As with their Encore program, they say that they will “use customer feedback and other data from Amazon sites around the world to identify exceptional books […]