Spencer Quinn’s DOG ON IT (Simon & Schuster) is the twelfth selection in the Barnes & Noble Recommends program, on sale tomorrow. Calling it “a dog lover’s mystery filled with laughs,” chief merchandising officer Jaime Carey describes it as “the first volume in Spencer Quinn’s new mystery series featuring the charming detective duo of private investigator Bernie Little and his dog Chet.”
Guest Report from NY Comic Con 2009
David Wilk at Booktrix once again provides us his lens on last weekend’s Comic Con, said by Lance Fensterman to have drawn nearly 77,000 fans–well up from 67,000 attendees a year ago: Larger than ever, and more smoothly run by Reed at the Javits Center, New York Comicon has grown to become a major pop culture event. While it lacks the huge displays put on by the movie companies, and does not attract the complete range of small and independent publishers that flock to San Diego every July, the show has clearly succeeded in serving its core audience of comics […]
Lunch Weekly for Monday, February 9
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 Michelle Hoover’s THE QUICKENING, about an epic feud, marked by violence […]
King Story Exclusively on New Kindle?
The WSJ says “Amazon is also expected to say it has acquired a new work by best-selling novelist Stephen King that will be available exclusively, at least for a time, on Kindle.” They note “a Kindle-like device plays a role in the story.” Also, a spokesman for Prime View International, the company that manufactures the screens for both Kindle and Sony Reader says the difficult in keeping the device in stock was simply a matter of demand: “The sales were just faster than expected.”WSJ
Anderson News Said to Suspend Operations
The latest announcement in a week of see-saw reports about the status of mass-market giants Anderson News and Source Interlink has Anderson saying that it is suspending operations immediately. Mediaweek says the wholesaler indicated “that it would continue talking with publishers and retailers to find a way to stay in business, but that it had no choice but to cease operations to staunch years of financial losses.” There is no clear word on whether the move has any effect on Anderson’s handling of mass market books.MediaWeek Competitor Source Interlink dropped its demand for a fee of seven cents per magazine […]
Kindle 2 "Official Images"
As expected, it’s thinner, the navigation buttons seems slightly better placed, and it continues the same my-brother-in-law-designed-it-for-me look at Kindle 1. The updated rumor is that it will cost $359 and go on sale February 24. See Mobile Read for more photos.