At NAL, Talia Platz has been promoted to assistant editor. Kristin Lindstrom has closed her agency, Lindstrom Literary Management, after 15 years to open a new business, Flying Pig Media. she will provide a range of publishing services to authors from craft/content editing to creative management of the electronic and print-on-demand books. Effective September 1, Skyhorse Publishing is expanding into the UK with distribution via Constable Robinson, which will also sell their books into the EU. The deal covers both print and ebook editions. On Saturday, the International Thriller Writers presented their Thriller Awards to: Best Hardcover Novel: BAD BLOOD, […]
Briefs: Indigo Changes Product Mix and Plans Speedier Returns; Pan Mac Earnings; and More
Starting this fall Indigo will add more shelf space for giftware, toys and lifestyle products while cutting back on space for books. And at a vendor-relations meeting last week, the chain also reportedly informed suppliers it will evaluate book sales after 45 days and return underperforming titles soon after. The change in plans has Canadian publishers worried about supply chain inefficiencies and the potential expense of having to push back publication dates to take advantage of holiday sales. Quill & Quire Pan Macmillan offers a numbers-free earnings update for the first 24 weeks of the fiscal year, ending July 8. […]
Riggio Returns Malone’s Praise, and BN Stock Rises
After John Malone’s praise for Len Riggio and Barnes & Noble from Sun Valley, ID, Riggio added similar remarks yesterday, saying he “couldn’t think of a better partner than John Malone and a finer group of executives than the team at Liberty.” The combination lifted Barnes & Noble shares back to well above Liberty’s opening offer of $17 a share in yesterday’s trading. The stock had dropped as low as $16.35 in late June after reporting continuing losses in establishing Nook, but rose yesterday to close at $17.85. A WSJ blog grasps at straws a bit to suggest that Riggio […]
The August 2011 Indie Next List
1. Iron House, by John Hart Unsaid: A Novel, by Neil Abramson The Family Fang: A Novel, by Kevin Wilson The Call: A Novel, by Yannick Murphy Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline Rules of Civility: A Novel, by Amor Towles Plugged: A Novel, by Eoin Colfer The End of Everything: A Novel, by Megan Abbott The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel, by Melanie Benjamin Among the Wonderful, by Stacy Carlson The Adjustment, by Scott Phillips Next to Love: A Novel, by Ellen Feldman Domestic Violets: A Novel, by Matthew Norman Girls in White Dresses, by Jennifer Close […]
People, Etc.
Will Sulkin announced plans to retire from his position as publishing director of Random UK’s The Bodley Head in April 2012. Editorial Director at Harvill Secker Stuart Williams will move over to The Bodley Head in January 2012 and take over as publishing director when Sulkin retires (while continuing to publish about six fiction titles a year at Harvill Secker). Williams will report to Vintage UK publisher Dan Franklin. Sulkin joined Random UK in 1990 as publisher of Pimlico and created the nonfiction Bodley Head list in 2007. He began his career in publishing at Penguin in 1969. Kate Lloyd […]
eBriefs: DRM-Free for Libraries, and Collins’ eBooks on the Way
As promised, OverDrive is making available to libraries a collection of DRM-free ebooks from those publishers willing to issue their ebooks that way (Carina Press, O’Reilly, Microsoft Press, etc.). The DRM-free titles carry the same one-lend-at-a-time-per-copy as other protected titles. Release With the forthcoming release of his new book this October, business writer Jim Collins has agreed to have HarperCollins publish GOOD TO GREAT in ebook form on July 19, followed by ebook editions over his three other books over the following few months.