The new Barnes & Noble Recommends trade paperback selections are Lisa Genova’s Still Alice and Mary Karr’s Lit: A Memoir. The Booker Prize will be awarded this evening in London. Ladbrokes had suspended betting last week after 50 percent more money was wagered on a single title–Tom McCarthy’s C–on Wednesday than had been bet in total since the longlist was announced in July. Most illuminating, though, was the revelation that for all the attention the Booker betting draws, Ladbrokes took just 10,000 pounds of wagers up until Wednesday, when another 15,000 pounds was bet on McCarthy alone. Traditionally the favorite […]
Lunch Weekly for Monday, October 11
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 Maria Duenas’ No. 1 Spanish bestseller and debut novel THE COUTURIERE, […]
Remembering Bookseller Carla Cohen, 74
Founder and co-owner of Washington, DC’s much-admired Politics and Prose bookstore Carla Cohen died this morning following her battle with a rare cancer of the bile ducts. The Washington Post remembers her as “a former urban planner who conceived of Politics and Prose as a salon where Washington readers and writers could gather to challenge each other in discussion about the big ideas of the day — a place that would reach beyond customers’ pocketbooks and become part of their lives.” Cohen and fellow owner Barbara Meade put the store up for sale earlier this year. In a obituary posted […]
Ingram’s Comprehensive “New Distribution Services Model” with Springer Includes Taking Over Printing
Following quickly on their partnership with Macmillan on “long tail” backlist, Ingram has announced a broader new initiative with Springer in which the wholesaler will take over Springer’s entire US supply chain. Ingram will manage warehousing and fulfillment for Springer and will transition manufacturing to a model that focuses on print-on-demand. Initially Ingram will hold all of Springer’s physical inventory in their warehouses; as that inventory sells down, Ingram will move replenishment from offset to print-on-demand “when it makes the most economic sense.” The program begins in the first quarter of 2011. Springer evp of customer service, fulfillment and logistics […]
The Non-Story that Won’t Stop: Larsson’s Unpublished Book
Publishers and fans of Stieg Larsson won’t let go of the idea that a nearly-finished manuscript in the bestselling Millennium series might be published some day, even though those in a position to control its fate keep saying it won’t. The latest installment was a hyped CBS Sunday Morning interview with the late Larsson’s father Erland and brother Joakim, who control the author’s estate (over the continuing objections of Larsson’s partner, Eve Gabrielsson. But “the Larssons say they won’t publish the book even if it surfaces.” Which is what Publishers Lunch reported in June 2009, when Joakim Larsson told us […]
eBriefs: McGraw-Hill’s Custom Course Content; China to Grow eBook Industry; and More
On Friday McGraw-Hill Education formally announced a new custom course-content publishing platform that lets professors create their own compilations of material that are available for sale to their students. Instructors can search across over 4,000 McGraw-Hill textbooks plus tens of thousands of articles, case studies and other materials. They can view either a “digital proof” or a mailed print review copy of their custom compilations. The final collections are sold to students as ebooks through the company’s ebookstore, and as printed books through campus bookstores. They started rolling out the program in April.Release China’s General Administration of Press and Publication […]