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 Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction Contest winner Bernie McGill’s first novel THE […]
International Book Fair Hopes Diminish As British Airways and Virgin Cancel Saturday Flights
The hopes of getting to the London Book Fair if you aren’t already there are fading as flight cancellations have spread to Saturday, for many people the primary travel day to arrive prior to the opening of the three day book show. In a Saturday morning update, British airspace is officially closed at least until 1:00 PM Sunday (local time). Even prior to that announcement, on Friday the nation’s top carrier British Airways had already canceled all flights in and out of London for all of Saturday, as had their smaller competitor Virgin Atlantic. Ryanair, which connects London to much […]
UK Further Extends Flight Delays, But Book Fair Is On Regardless
Disruption of the London Book Fair due to the spreading cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland has been upgraded to a “significant” deal as some international attendees hope for the best and others are giving up. The latest official word as of this morning from the UK’s Met Office (via the web site at NATS) is that the airspace over England and Wales remains closed until at least 7 AM Saturday, London time. As of 7 PM tonight, restrictions are being lifted over “a large part of Scottish airspace.” So people planning to fly Saturday night or Sunday still have […]
Entertainment Weekly Touts 18 Spring/Summer Reads
The magazine gets a jump on other traditional summer reading previews with these recommendations: THIS BODY OF DEATH, Elizabeth George (April 20)HALF LIFE, Roopa Farooki (April 27)GIRL IN TRANSLATION, Jean Kwok (April 29)THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE, Julie Orringer (May 4)THE LAST STAND, Nathaniel Philbrick (May 4)SLOW LOVE: HOW I LOST MY JOB, PUT ON MY PAJAMAS AND FOUND HAPPINESS, Dominique Browning (May 9)WAR, Sebastian Junger (May 11)THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, Stieg Larsson (May 25)THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE, Aimee Bender (June 1)THE SHORT SECOND LIFE OF BREE TANNER, Stephenie Meyer (June 5)THE PASSAGE, Justin Cronin (June 8)SO […]
Agency Tax Tables
The story about the sales tax implications for publishers selling under the agency model is starting to spread. Further ratifying our earlier piece in which we explained that individual publishers have different interpretations of states where they have “nexus” and are required to collect and pay sales tax, Amazon has now added a list by publisher of states where sales tax will be added to purchases. The etailer’s own digital services arm collects tax only for Kentucky, North Dakota, New York and Washington. Hachette Digital, Inc. collects tax in 24 states; Macmillan does so in 21 states (unlike Hachette’s list, […]
People, Announcements, Etc.
Wylie O’Sullivan has been promoted to senior editor at Free Press, where she started in 2001 as an editorial assistant. Christina Biamonte will join Sony’s Digital Reading Business Division as new Content Account Manager, eBooks. She has been Subsidiary Rights Manager at Houghton Mifflin. At Sony, she will forge new publisher relationships and act as relationship manager for existing publishing partners. On Tuesday, Zondervan laid off 30 employees as part of a “streamlining [of] our operations,” with a total workforce of 374 people. At the same time, the company is hiring for its digital and multimedia operations, with the Grand […]