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 Richard Harvell’s THE BELLS, the confession of a thief, kidnapper, and […]
BN Introduces Video-Blogging Booksellers
Barnes & Noble has added videos by 11 of their booksellers from around the country to their website’s Barnes & Noble Studio section. Called Blogging Booksellers, the feature, to be updated weekly, presents “a real-life and personalized account of recommended weekly reads” along with news about store events. The booksellers were “selected for their extraordinary passion and knowledge about books.”
Random UK Layoffs Claim 33 Positions; Cambridge Likely to Limit Printing Cuts
A month ago Random House UK announced their intention to cut staff by approximately 5 percent (as did Harper UK) and now the Bookseller says that the company announced the elimination of 33 jobs today. Individuals were not named, but the magazine says that cutbacks included Transworld senior publishing director Francesca Liversidge and other “senior editorial” people.Bookseller In other UK publishing layoffs, lobbying of the eighteen academics who comprise the Syndicate that governs Cambridge University Press has raised “hope that at least half of the [book printing] jobs threatened by the restructuring will be saved,” the Guardian reports. Director of […]
Harper Finds Another Crichton Novel
An assistant to the late Michael Crichton found a complete manuscript for PIRATE LATITUDES, an adventure story set in 17th century Jamaica about a plan by the Jamaican governor and a pirate named Hunter to raid a Spanish galleon, in his computer files. HarperCollins will publish that book on November 24. But the status of the thriller that Crichton was working on when he died (originally due to have been published at the end of last year, but postponed) is less clear. Neither his agent Lynn Nesbit nor editor Jonathan Burnham has seen that manuscript yet, but they are nonetheless […]
Author Solutions Buys Canada's Trafford
Author Solutions continues to roll up its rivals, now buying Canadian self-publisher Trafford Publishing. CEO Kevin Weiss tells the WSJ his company will have close to $100 million in sales in 2009. Trafford ceo Geoffrey Reid, who will remain in that position, tells the paper, “We felt that Author Solutions was consolidating the market, and we wanted to be part of that.”WSJ
Nibbie Winners Include Obama
The British Book Award winners were announced last Friday night: Best Read: When Will There Be Good News, by Kate Atkinson Author of the Year: Aravind Adiga for The White TigerBiography: Dreams From My Father, by Barack ObamaCrime Thriller: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg LarssonPopular Fiction: Devil May Care, by Sebastian FaulksNon-Fiction: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, by Kate SummerscaleNew Writer: Tom Rob Smith for Child 44 Children’s Book: Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie MeyerList In other awards, The International Association of Culinary Professionals’ cookbook honors were dominated by independent (and formerly independent) lines. Ten Speed Press received […]