The chain of warehouse stores will kick off their new book club with Beth Hoffman’s debut novel, SAVING CEECEE HONEYCUTT from Pam Dorman Books, “a spirited Southern tale that explores the indomitable strengths of female relationships as a young girl loses one mother and finds many others in the storybook city of Savannah,” which publishes January 12. The club titles will be “featured prominently at Sam’s Club locations,” which number more than 600 nationwide.
Today's eReader News
DMC is launching a line of six different ereaders–two of which have 3G connectivity, with the rest using wifi–along with a social networking platform around reading called Copia. Their tag line is: “Any eReader can hold your book. But only one holds your entire reading experience. Introducing the copia reader — the first and only reader with social networking built in.” Gizmodo dubs it “like Goodread on steroids.” Company info on the readers Amazon’s SuperKindle will start shipping with international wireless capability starting January 19, now open for pre-orders.Release Meanwhile, CourseSmart, the consortium that sells higher education textbooks online, has […]
Bill O'Reilly Follows Steve Rubin to Holt
From our Deals page: Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s new “major book that will surprise people,” about which no further details are being released for another month or two, following his longtime publisher Steve Rubin to Holt, with Gillian Blake editing, for publication in 2011, by Eric Simonoff at William Morris Endeavor. The deal is for one book, though Rubin remarks, “I hope it will be the continuation of a very long and happy relationship” with O’Reilly.
Lubeck Takes Over at BISG, and More People News
Book technology veteran Scott Lubeck has taken over as executive director of the Book Industry Study Group. Most recently vp of technology for Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional and Education, Lubeck has worked at Harvard Business School Publishing, Newsstand, Perseus Books Group and National Academy Press. Kate Rados is joining Chelsea Green in the new position of director of digital initiatives, shaping overall digital strategy from web/mobile development, to digital publishing, to digital marketing and social media. She was most recently director, digital markets for Sterling. At Grand Central, Evan Boorstyn was promoted to deputy publicity director; and Tracy Martin and […]
Distribution News
Loveland, CO-based Interweave Press will move their sales and distribution for the US and Canada from IPG to Perseus Distribution as of July 1. Perseus will also handle distribution only to the world market excluding UK, Australia and Europe. Interweave, will publishes about 45 new titles a year, will continue to distribute themselves directly to the craft store market. Similar to the strategy executed by F+W Media, Interweave manages a network of more than 30 targeted websites featuring content from across their many platforms, which include 17 magazines for art and craft enthusiasts, run consumer trade shows, produce instructional DVDs […]
Costa Awards
Colm Toibin won the Costa Award for best novel for BROOKLYN, which makes him the favorite for the overall Costa prize, to be announced January 26. The other category winners were: Raphael Selbourne, Beauty (first novel)Christopher Reid, A Scattering (poetry)Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (biography) Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer (children’s)Guardian