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Beijing Fair News The latest news from China is that Wolters Kluwer has been approved to open the country’s first foreign-run bookstore for professional publications in Beijing, in partnership with China Law Press, according to an FT report. AFX recap Harper made the expected noise with their announcements from China. Working with The People’s Literature Publishing House, they will publish five Chinese “classics” for the English-language market. The two will publish 12-year-old Nancy Yi Fan’s SWORDBIRD in the US, UK and China. And Harper is launching an online English-Chinese translation dictionary and an English dictionary for students learning English, Cidian.cn. […]

Tuesday, September 5   Our Usual Reminder If for some reason this has reached you even though you are not a paying member of PublishersMarketplace, please visit the link below to join us all the time for complete deal reports and more. Click to register http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/register.shtml Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes […]

More Schedule Notes There may not be any more issues of Lunch Deluxe this week — it depends on our schedule, and whether anything interesting happens. If not, we’ll back with the weekly deal round-up. Google x2 Widely featured today is the news that Google chose to publicize: they now let Google Book Search visitors download PDFs of public domain books. When you click to view a page from a “full view” book through the site, there is a download button (which also indicates how large the file will be.) Not fed to the press but posted yesterday on the […]

Schedule Lunch will be late tomorrow, but there should be news up at the PublishersMarketplace.com home page if you check in. BN Gets Subpoena on Stock Options Barnes & Noble disclosed in an SEC filing that on Friday it received a subpoena from the US District Attorney, seeking documents related to the company’s stock-options practices. The move follows a shareholder suit filed last month, which triggered an informal SEC inquiry as well. In its own review, the WSJ found “that Barnes & Noble granted stock options to senior executives at monthly lows. One such grant of 700,000 options to Leonard […]

Book and Arts Veterans to Leave Dallas Paper Just as we round-up the semi-annual celebrations of forthcoming fall books from a variety of newspapers comes disturbing news about the fragile status of book coverage as newspaper owners wrestle with what they want to be in the internet era. Longtime Dallas Morning News book critic Jerome Weeks reports that both he and books editor Charles Ealy have accepted the paper’s buyout offer. Management at owners Belo Corp. announced a plan to eliminate “at least 85” editorial jobs in June. Weeks indicates that “there are currently no plans to replace” either book […]

Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Debut Winner of the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best First Book […]