The Nobel Peace Prize is being shared by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karma. Gbowee’s book MIGHTY BE OUR POWERS: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War, was published last month by Beast Books and attracted attention for an author tour that’s being underwritten by Len Riggio. Sirleaf’s book THIS CHILD WILL BE GREAT was published by Harper in 2009 and is available in trade paperback and ebook. In other awards news, The Crime Writers’ Association announced the winners of various Dagger Awards in a ceremony that will be televised on ITV3 on October 11: Gold Dagger For […]
DeLillo’s Stories Top November Indie Next List
Here are the ABA’s latest monthly picks: The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, by Don DeLillo The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel (The Cousins’ War), by Philippa Gregory Zone One: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead Aloha From Hell: A Sandman Slim Novel, by Richard Kadrey The Marriage Plot: A Novel, by Jeffrey Eugenides The Boy in the Suitcase, by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout, by Jill Abramson Triangles: A Novel, by Ellen Hopkins And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields White Truffles in Winter: A Novel, by […]
Amazon Opens Kindle Store in France
Amazon has opened a Kindle store in France at Amazon.fr with more than 35,000 titles in French (and 800,000 more, primarily in English), a French-language version of its budget Kindle for 99 Euros, and the introduction of local Kindle Direct Publishing. The store will also offer graphic novels, more than 4000 free French classics, and top French newspapers. It is their second Kindle store in a language other than English, following the German store they opened in April. “French customers are passionate about books and reading, and just as we’ve seen in the US, UK and Germany, we believe they […]
eNews: BN Pulls Graphic Novels Over DC’s Kindle Fire Deal; Crown and RealClearPolitics Partner on Campaign eBooks; and More
DC Comics’ plans to make 100 graphic novels available in digital format exclusively on the Kindle Fire did not go over well with Barnes & Noble, which should not come as much of a surprise. As a result, Bleeding Cool reports, B&N sent an email to their stores instructing them to remove editions of those graphic novels–including the popular WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA, and SANDMAN–from their shelves. The books can still be ordered from BN.com. Similar to Random House’s summer announcement that it would partner with Politico to produce a number of ebooks chronicling the 2012 presidential campaign, now Crown […]
ABA Reports on New Bookselling Experiments
ABA ceo Oren Teicher uses one of his periodic letters to members to underscore the work the organization is doing in conjunction with publishers to test new business models: “It’s imperative that both booksellers and publishers demonstrate a clear commitment to taking out a clean sheet of paper and asking ourselves: If we were to design business models that would give our industry the best possible opportunities for success today, what would they look like?” The organization has been “asking publishers to individually identify and test their own innovative ideas that might eventually benefit all stakeholders in our industry.” While […]
Where the eBookstores Are
With two international announcements this week and more a possibility at next week’s Frankfurt Book Fair, we’ve prepared a recap of recent international expansions of the big ebookstore platforms: Amazon launched their first non-English Kindle store in Germany in April. As part of their international expansion, the company added a general Amazon store in Spain last month (and they opened a general store in Italy in November 2010). Kindle stores are expected soon in both Spain and Italy, where advertisements have been seen for Kindle positions. Among other countries on Amazon’s horizon, Brazilian publishers have reported discussions for both a […]