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 Scientist, doctor and researcher with over 50 major awards in science […]
Lunch for Friday, April 4
More on Miller Bob Miller’s new experimental start-up with HarperCollins took shape quickly after a casual discussion over drinks with Harper ceo Jane Friedman at the end of February. Miller says that he was “feeling restless and didn’t know what next mountain to climb” and was “talking about my frustration with the paradigms in this business.” He explained to Friedman how we would theoretically “do it all over again” and she encouraged him to put that plan into action. “I realized this was my time,” Miller says. On some of the specific intentions of the new line, a 50/50 profit […]
Lunch for Thursday, April 3
Hyperion’s Bob Miller in Harper Start-Up Founding publisher at Hyperion Bob Miller is leaving the company after 17 years to “launch a new global publishing program based on a non-traditional business model” starting on April 14 described as a “creative publishing ‘studio’ that challenges conventional trade publishing standards.” They add: “Miller will publish approximately 25 popular-priced books per year in multiple physical and digital formats including those as yet unspecified, with the aim to combine the best practices of trade publishing while taking full advantage of the internet for sales, marketing and distribution. Authors will be compensated through a profit […]
Lunch for Wednesday, April 2
Collins Gets All the Love? The NY Observer looks at the revival of Collins under Steve Ross, “a smiley, excitable fellow.” They add: “Since last July, Mr. Ross has been feverishly laying the infrastructure for the new Collins, acquiring books and hiring editors faster than any other publisher has in recent memory. These hires, announced one by one over the past few months, came with some fanfare, and have stunned not only literary agents and Mr. Ross’ competitors at other publishing houses, but also colleagues within HarperCollins. Some editors at the Harper unit, which has long been HarperCollins’ flagship imprint, […]
Lunch for Tuesday, April 1
Bloomsbury’s Last Potter-Based Report Bloomsbury reported preliminary results for fiscal 2007 this morning, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows helping to double sales for the year, at 150 million pounds, with pre-tax profit more than tripling to 17.9 million pounds. Publishing Khaled Hosseini and Elizabeth Gilbert in the UK and Germany provided another boost, as did their German edition of Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienviellantes/The Kindly Ones (not due to be released in its English translation until 2009), which has sold over 100,000 copies in German. The US unit, where there has been major staff turnover, declined 3.6 percent in […]
Lunch for Monday, March 31
More from Amazon on POD, and Toasters Amazon’s Patty Smith spoke to Computerworld further about their new requirement that POD-based small publishers and self-publishing companies print their titles through Booksurge if they want the books sold directly by Amazon. “When we publish a print-on-demand title in our own fulfillment center, we can then marry that on-demand book with a regular book, or a toaster, if that’s what the customer ordered in the same box and ship it the same day to the customer. And that print-on-demand book that we printed is also eligible for free shipping.” She reiterated that companies […]