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 Presidential fellow at Ohio State University Claire Vaye Watkins’s BATTLEBORN, a […]
NYT Critics’ Picks and More Lists
The New York Times has posted lists of top ten books from their individaul book critics, along with the NYTBR’s list of 100 notable books: From Michiko Kakutani: Nonfiction LIFE by Keith Richards with James Fox CLEOPATRA: A LIFE by Stacy Schiff LETTERS by Saul Bellow. Edited by Benjamin Taylor FRANK: THE VOICE by James Kaplan CRISIS ECONOMICS: A CRASH COURSE IN THE FUTURE OF FINANCE by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm YOU ARE NOT A GADGET: A MANIFESTO by Jaron Lanier Fiction SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen THE LOST BOOKS OF THE […]
Gawker Settles with Harper
HarperCollins announced Tuesday night that they have “reached an agreement with Gawker resolving the lawsuit” filed over the web site’s pre-publication posting of 21 pages from Sarah Palin’s just-released book AMERICA BY HEART. The publisher says “Gawker has agreed to keep the posted material off its web site and not to post the material again in the future.” Harper indicates that Judge Thomas Griesa, who issued the temporary restraining order on Saturday, said in an opinion released Monday that “the purpose of the copyright law is to prevent the kind of copying that has taken place here.” They say he […]
Random’s Client Marketing Service, Plus People Updates
Random House’s distribution unit announced a new marketing service that provides their clients with “a range of robust tools for pursuing online marketing opportunities.” Manager, digital and paperback marketing at Crown Jay Sones will move to RH Publisher Services, where he will be senior online marketing manager, in charge of the new program. That tool set includes “marketing strategy development, online advertising campaigns; online media tours with authors; consultation on back-list opportunities on-line; and single-title campaigns for key front-list titles.” President of RHPS Jeff Abraham says in the announcement “our experience shows that these online marketing efforts, whether via Facebook, […]
Penguin Takes Classics to Egypt In New Joint Venture
The WSJ reports that Penguin is about to announce a joint venture with Egypt-based publisher Dar El Shorouk to publish books from the company’s Classics line in Arabic. The line is expected to debut in “the first half of 2011,” and will incorporate some Arabic classics as well. Dar El Shorouk chairman Ibrahim El Moallem believes the ebook editions in particular “will go all over the place,” even in Arabic-speaking countries where authorities try to censor books. He also “said that presenting the Penguin library as a series of the world’s greatest books may help trump the censorship issue.” The […]
Rosetta Adds Children’s eBooks, In Another Amazon Exclusive
eBook publisher Rosetta Books is expanding into children’s books, having released digital versions of the entire line of 73 Rainbow Magic books for the US market. As with some of their previous releases, they are sold exclusively through the Kindle store for the next year, in exchange for what Rosetta founder Arthur Klebanoff calls “prominent site promotion.” Rosetta licensed the ebooks from HIT Entertainment, which controls the property, and obtained ebook rights to future titles as well. Klebanoff says that will comprise “at least two new series of seven books each annually.” Scholastic has been–and remains–the print publisher of the […]