Soho Press will move their worldwide distribution–including ebooks–to Random House as of January 1, 2011. They have been distributed by Consortium since 2003 Marcy Posner, formerly agent and foreign rights director at Sterling Lord Literistic, has joined Folio Literary Management as an agent specializing in children’s and young adult as well as women’s fiction, romance and serious and commercial non-fiction. Celeste Fine will continue as the foreign rights director. Lottchen Shivers will join Abrams on April 19 in the new position of executive director of adult marketing and publicity, reporting to vp of sales and marketing Mary Wowk. Shivers will […]
Bellevue Press Leads Pulitzers As Harding's "Tinkers" Takes Fiction Honors
The just-announced 2010 Pulitzers (with the official finalists listed underneath the winners: FictionTinkers, by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press) Love in Infant Monkeys, by Lydia Millet (Soft Skull Press)In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin (W.W. Norton & Company) HistoryLords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press) Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, by Gordon S. Wood (Oxford University Press) BiographyThe First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles (Alfred […]
Life Under Agency: No Solution Yet for Wholesalers and Sales Tax
The Diesel eBookstore started blogging recently, in part to communicate with customers about the business interruptions from the transition to the agency model by at least some publishers. They reported that “negotiations between our distributors and the Agency Five publishers are taking a lot longer than expected” and “there is no current ETA” on when those files will be reinstated and sales-tax compliant. As they note in their most recent post, per our report from last week, after the agency titles are restored Diesel will need to collect sales and forward it to publishers, who will remit and report to […]
Awards: Quirky Shortlist for IMPAC
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, nominated by public libraries worldwide, issued an unusual shortlist today: The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker (Dutch) The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery In Zodiac Light, by Robert Edric (British) Settlement, by Christoph Hein (German)The Believers, by Zoe Heller (British)Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill (Irish) God’s Own Country, by Ross Raisin (British) Home, by Marilynne Robinson (American) As far as we can tell, Bakker’s book was published in the US by non-profit Archipelago Books; Erdric, published in the UK by Doubleday and Black Swan, never had a US edition.
eNews: Confirming Best Buy and nook; A Nokia eReader and Google Tablet?
Barnes & Noble officially confirmed last week’s report that Best Buy will carry the nook ereader as of April 18. The new part is the indication that this will be an “exclusive” partnership.Release Separately, the NYT says that Nokia (which recently hired Matt Shatz from Random House) is “planning to enter the digital book market through a slate-cum-e-reader.” They reiterate that Google is “exploring the idea of building its own slate, an e-reader that would function like a computer.” Google CEO Eric Schmidt “told friends at a recent party in Los Angeles about the new device, which would exclusively run […]
Lunch Weekly for Monday, April 12
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 Historian, broadcaster, author of BECOMING QUEEN and consultant on the recent […]