en-us http://www.publishersweekly.com/ Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use (http://www.publishersweekly.com/info/CA337409.html) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:08:35 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705847.html?rssid=341 BookExpo America officials have decided to limit the number of days the exhibit floor will be opened to Wednesday and Thursday when the annual convention convenes in New York City next spring. Originally, BEA had planned to open the floor from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:57:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705842.html?rssid=341 More than 140 independent bookstores around the country have signed up to participate in National Bookstore Day, a PW-sponsored initiative to get customers into bookstores tomorrow. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:20:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705834.html?rssid=341 Book and publishing news from across the Web: Publishing as Economic Bright Spot; A Self-Pub How-To; PW’s Top Ten Controversy; A New Indie Press Blog; ‘Going Rouge’. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:55:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705825.html?rssid=341 Third-quarter sales rose 2.4% at Simon & Schuster and earnings increased 13.6%. Though heartened by the improved performance, CEO Carolyn Reidy said she is disappointed that sales for the entire market have not shown more of an increase so far this fall. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:58:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705797.html?rssid=341 Borders has announced that it will close approximately 200 stores in its Waldenbooks Specialty Retail group in January. The store closings will leave Borders with about 130 mall-based outlets. About 1,500 positions will be eliminated in the downsizing, most of which are part-time jobs. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:01:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705655.html?rssid=341 Robert Friedman, a fixture in the New Age publishing community and the cofounder and president of Hampton Roads Publishing, is leaving the company. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:14:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705644.html?rssid=341 Triumph Books plans to have copies of The Best in New York area stores by the weekend. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:24:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705638.html?rssid=341 The 14th annual Texas Book Festival drew more authors, including lots of novelists, than last year and large crowds eager to discuss books. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:45:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705535.html?rssid=341 Veteran publishing exec Dan Weiss has a new job as publisher at large at St. Martin’s, reporting to Matthew Shear, who is senior v-p and publisher of the house’s paperback and consumer reference groups. Weiss will work on developing content for Gen Y readers—“emerging adults who are navigating career, love and family in a 24/7 connected world,” explained Shear. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:58:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705538.html?rssid=341 With sales down in both its publishing and printing businesses, Courier Corp. reported an 11.1% decline in revenue for the fiscal year ended September 26, with sales falling to $248.8 million. The company had a net loss of $3.1 million in fiscal 2009 compared to a loss of $370,000 in fiscal 2008. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:55:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705533.html?rssid=341 Sales in the U.S. division rose 15% in the third quarter, with a number of titles joining the Twilight series in pushing sales. The company warned, however, that growth in the fourth quarter could be considerably slower than in the last period of 2008. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:51:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705519.html?rssid=341 Publishing News from Across The Web: Obama Books in U.K.; Holiday E-Book Hopes; McSweeney’s Newspaper; Palin’s Book Tour; Utah Univ. Press Goes Online; Looks at 2010 Books. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:16:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705494.html?rssid=341 Henry Holt executive editor Gillian Blake has won a hotly contested auction for New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert's new book, The Sixth Extinction. Blake beat out eight other houses for the book, which will be expanded from the author's May 2009 New Yorker piece of the same name. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:13:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705499.html?rssid=341 First quarter operating profits rose to $20 million from $3 million in the comparable period in fiscal 2009 at HarperCollins, although revenue was roughly flat. Cost reductions and a return to more normal buying patterns for backlist were among the reasons cited for the profit improvement. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:11:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705293.html?rssid=341 Tantor Audio will release four Sherlock Holmes audiobooks November 23, a month ahead of the new Sherlock Holmes movie. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:32:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705282.html?rssid=341 Simon & Schuster has unveiled an e-galley program to provide digital ARCs to the media. Galley Grab, which is still in beta at www.galleygrab.com, offers DRM protected downloads of S&S titles, for review and feature coverage, which can be read on varioues e-readers, including the Sony eReader and the Nook. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:01:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705281.html?rssid=341 Third-quarter sales rose 22.5% at Harlequin on a 3.7% sales gain. Earnings were helped by lower costs and foreign exchange. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:31:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705246.html?rssid=341 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:30:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705243.html?rssid=341 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:15:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705223.html?rssid=341 Sourcebooks has begun PoetrySpeaks.com, a site that features information about poets, their works, with the ability to buy a poem for 99 cents. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:23:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704684.html?rssid=341 This evening, The Daily Show consults David Plouffe, campaign manager for Barack Obama's primary and general election victories in 2008, whose The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory (Viking Adult, 978-0670021338, $27.95; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $39.95), pubs today.  Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:40:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705014.html?rssid=341 Marvel Enterainment announced this morning that sales in its publishing segment fell 6% in the third quarter ended September 30, to $48.9 million. Operating income declined 19.7%, to $10.2 million. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:14:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705002.html?rssid=341 Borders has started a new holiday program under which it will ship for free any item listed on Borders.com that is not in-stock in a store where a customer is shopping. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:41:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704992.html?rssid=341 Marvell, a California based semiconductor and microprocessor producer, has entered into an agreement with E Ink, the producer of electronic paper display screens for all the major digital reading devices, to produce a new generation of integrated processors. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:14:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704982.html?rssid=341 A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: B&N Sued over Nook; Debunking the Bolano Myth; Thomas Nelson’s Self-Pub Division; iPhone vs. Kindle; E-Books vs. Hardcovers. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:34:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704973.html?rssid=341 In an unusual acquisition deal, Tor.com, an experimental Macmillan website/publishing venture focused on launching original science fiction, fantasy and comics, has acquired web-only publishing rights to two full-length 192 page graphic novels and will serialize them over 6 months through the Tor.com website. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:26:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704969.html?rssid=341 Mark Waid started out in the superhero camp, as an editor at DC and then as a freelance writer, shaping such iconic series as The Flash and Captain Marvel. Now, as editor-in-chief of independent comics publisher Boom! Studios, Waid is transforming the paradigm of monthly comics publishing. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:19:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704957.html?rssid=341 The growing array of comics available for iPhones got a Hulk-sized addition last week when Marvel Comics, the leading US comics publisher, announced deals with four iPhone applications. Comics both recent and classic are now available for download from Comixology, iVerse and Panelfly. Scrollmotion, another leading app for iPhones that distributes books, will also have Marvel Comics available. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:57:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704954.html?rssid=341 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:49:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704996.html?rssid=341 Longtime CBA leader Bill Anderson has resigned as president and CEO of the Christian retailing association. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:39:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704937.html?rssid=341 In 2004, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Michael Chabon gave the keynote speech at the Eisner Awards. Speaking about the maturation of the industry, he referred to some of the excesses of the 1990s as comics "adolescence": "An excess of desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence. But these follies were the inevitable missteps and overreachings in the course of a campaign that was, in the end, successful." Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:16:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704837.html?rssid=341 Madeline McIntosh is returning to Random House in a newly created high level post in which she will report directly to CEO Markus Dohle. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:23:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704726.html?rssid=341 Simon & Schuster has started to sell individual e-chapters to its bestselling You series of titles written by Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz. The initiative was developed as part of a broader effort by Dr. Oz to provide answers about health on his www.askdoctoroz.com Web site. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:46:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704709.html?rssid=341 Elisabeth Dyssegaard will join Hyperion November 16 as editor-in chief, replacing Will Balliett, who left earlier this fall to head Thames and Hudson. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:32:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704708.html?rssid=341 With his bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series finished and the 39 Clues (for which he designed the story arc and wrote the first installment) well underway, author Rick Riordan announced his next endeavor this past weekend at the Texas Book Fair. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:01:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704696.html?rssid=341 Wine expert Gary Vaynerchuk has a thing for wacky self-promotions, having done everything from appearing on TVs in gas stations to plastering his face on billboards along New Jersey highways. Now, he’s embarking on a two-day tour to airports in six different cities to promote his new book, Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:51:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704695.html?rssid=341 Amazon has named Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin as its best book of 2009. Published by Random House, Amazon called Spin “a gorgeous and moving story.” Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:26:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704690.html?rssid=341 The Publishers Association, a professional organization of British book publishers, announced plans to partner with Adobe Systems in an effort to discuss and expand the interoperability of e-book formats across the various operating systems and hardware. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:41:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704689.html?rssid=341 A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: BN.com to Expand Overseas; Lone Star Book Festival; More on BookServer; Books Top App Store; Palin’s Literary Wake. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:35:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704498.html?rssid=341 The big box retailers are limiting the number of copies customers can buy of their deep discounted titles. Some booksellers had hoped to buy large quantities of the books to benefit from the price war. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:52:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704493.html?rssid=341 The Web-based reading platform has teamed with O'Reilly to launch a bookstore with 500 O'Reilly e-books. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:44:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704492.html?rssid=341 Liaquat Ahamed won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2009 for Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:17:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704486.html?rssid=341 A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Whiting Award Winners; Hemingway Papers From Cuba; Why Europe Is Safe From Book Pricing Wars; Elliott on Book Tours; Tolkein Among Biggest Deceased Earners; Black Sparrow’s Beauty. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:08:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704371.html?rssid=341 Interlink founder Michael Moushabeck's book about his expendition to Mount Kilimanjaro is building up sales. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:21:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704369.html?rssid=341 “Publishing in the Digital Age: Renaissance or Revolution” was the topic of this month’s meeting of the Northern California Book Publicity and Marketing Association. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:02:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704326.html?rssid=341 No Weak Links! PW’s Top Ten Books of ’09; Eggers and Martel Movie Deals; Vook Slammed; Apple Tablet Goes Down Under; Fitzgerald’s Tax Records. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:19:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704322.html?rssid=341 Phone applications developer ScrollMotion is releasing the Iceberg Reader 3.0, an upgraded version of the e-book reading software. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:39:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704321.html?rssid=341 Baker & Taylor has joined with reference publisher Gale to distribute the Gale Virtual Reference Library e-book collection. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:31:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704298.html?rssid=341 Consortium Book Sales & Distribution and Ingram Publisher Services have both announced new clients. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:32:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704292.html?rssid=341 Phaidon Press is opening a “pop-up” store in Soho, New York City, next week. The 2,500-square-foot store, at 100 Wooster Street, will be open from November 2 through January 2010. Store hours will be 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Sunday. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:07:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704293.html?rssid=341 The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has launched a new banner ad campaign under which the associaiton will coordinate the promotion of one title across participating stores Web sites. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:55:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704243.html?rssid=341 A new Macmillan contract will change the way the publisher pays for digital sales as well as upping royalties for direct to consumer sales. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:20:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704210.html?rssid=341 Seven books from the Random House imprints, two from Norton and one from Penguin comprise the first-ever Top 10 list of the best adult books of the year as compiled by the review editors of PW. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:45:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704182.html?rssid=341 Chronicle Books announced yesterday that former Ten Speed Press publisher Lorena Jones has taken over as publishing director. In her new role, Jones will initiate a digital food and drink publishing program, and oversee Chronicle’s food and drink list as a whole. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:34:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704180.html?rssid=341 No Weak Links! Payin' Palin; Writers Spell for Literature; China vs. Google; Electric Lit Mag; Kindle for PC and Mac. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:13:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704164.html?rssid=341 B&N executives believe the retailer will benefit from store consolidation among its competitors. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:45:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704157.html?rssid=341 The Nook has become the fastest selling single item at Barnes & Noble since the retailer introduced the e-reader October 20. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:30:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704017.html?rssid=341 Steve Rubin will join Henry Holt November 2 as president and publisher, with Dan Farley focusing on the children's book group. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:56:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704008.html?rssid=341 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:43:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704014.html?rssid=341 Sales rose slightly, but earnings were off at Canada's largest bookseller. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:41:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703987.html?rssid=341 Vook, the digital media company turning publishers' titles into interactive videos, has signed up its second book partner in HarperStudio. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:06:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703991.html?rssid=341 The country's largest bookseller is well positioned to grow as it plans to leverage its traditional bookstores, online presence and growing digital footprint to boost results, executives said. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:27:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703970.html?rssid=341 No Weak Links! Uncertain Future for Lonely Planet; Nook and B&N Store Sales; Amazon’s Best 2009 Books; E-Ink Beyond E-Books; Apple Tablet Again. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:28:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703967.html?rssid=341 Superstar singer, rapper and producer Kanye West has reunited with animator/cartoonist Bill Plympton to create Through the Wire: The Words and Lyrics of Kanye West, a hardcover book collection of West’s hit lyrics, illustrated by Plympton, that will be released in November by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:35:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703966.html?rssid=341 An American journalist based in Tokyo, Patrick Galbraith combines a scholarly devotion to studying Japanese popular culture with a, well, otaku-like enthusiasm and love of cosplay. This month Kodansha International published Galbraith’s The Otaku Encyclopedia: An Insider’s Guide to the Subculture of Cool Japan with a foreword by renowned Japan expert and translator Frederik L. Schodt. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:23:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703968.html?rssid=341 Having written the book The Economics of Web Comics, I occasionally get asked why I haven’t done a comic, myself. As fate would have it, I've recently started doing a Web-based comic.  It was suggested people might find it useful to hear how it was arranged and set up.  Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:21:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703965.html?rssid=341 W. W. Norton executive editor Robert Weil is best described as an editor’s editor. Which is to say that he publishes books of great intellectual depth and literary substance that also manage to sell quite well. Weil has overseen the publication of Crumb’s new work, The Book of Genesis Illustrated, a dazzling effort by Crumb to transform the words of Genesis into comics. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:13:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703964.html?rssid=341 As the manga boom continues to assert a popular presence on the shelves of the nation’s bookstores and comics shops, Abrams Comicarts has treated readers to a fascinating in-depth look at one of the form’s antecedents with Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater.  Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:47:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703972.html?rssid=341 The largest bookseller attendance in several years put a charge into this weekend's Southern California Independent Booksellers Assocation meeting, the last of the fall regionals. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:37:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703948.html?rssid=341 Graylight is by Naomi Nowak, the creator of Unholy Kinship and House of Clay. In this preview, a young woman divulges to her friends a surreal occurance from her childhood. Graylight is due out from NBM in December. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:35:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703864.html?rssid=341 Approximately 80 exhibitors, mostly authors but others as well such as small printers, will be at the first Self-Publishing Book Expo set for November 7 at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers in New York City. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:13:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703790.html?rssid=341 Still family-run, North Star Press is upping its output and trying some new marketing approaches in its 40th year. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:38:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703579.html?rssid=341 Gourmet Today had a lot going for it before the magazine folded on October 5. But now that Gourmet’s final issue is on newsstands, sales of the book have jumped. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has seen sales increase since the magazine closed—which was only two weeks after the book went on sale—and former editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl, who’d committed to touring to promote the book months ago, has been a hotter than usual ticket in light of recent events. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:00:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703583.html?rssid=341 It's a big season for books about cheese. The coming months will see the publication of books on making cheese at home, building and running a small dairy, and cooking with cheese. There are books about people who’ve devoted their lives to cheese, and even a memoir by one of them. And, of course, there are reference books (which are necessary, since there are some 700 kinds of cheese in existence). Here's a summary of what's coming up. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:00:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703586.html?rssid=341 Former Viking assistant editor Ann Mah left New York for Beijing, took a job as the dining editor for the English-language magazine That’s Beijing, and wrote a novel about a young Chinese-American woman who moves to Beijing in the midst of an identity crisis. Mah spoke to PW from Paris, where she now lives, about Kitchen Chinese: A Novel about Food, Family, and Finding Yourself, which Avon will publish as a paperback original in February. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:00:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703619.html?rssid=341 This week, pics of Mark Peel celebrating at Campanile in L.A., Alicia Silverstone signing copies of her new book at the NYC Wine & Food Festival, Alton Brown answering questions at a B&N in Manhattan, John Besh partying in New Orleans, and Sarah Levy toasting her new baking book in Chicago. Also: news about HarperCollins picking up the self-published culinary novel The Recipe Club, and ATK founder Chris Kimball talks to PW about the Kindle. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:00:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703765.html?rssid=341 No Weak Links! Powell’s on the Pricing Wars; Amazon Working on Kindle App for Mac; 4% of British Have Read E-Book; The New Yorker Festival; HP Does Book Scanning; Bloomberg on E-Readers; R. Crumb Reviewed. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:30:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703771.html?rssid=341 Sales in McGraw-Hill Education's school segment fell 19.6% in the third quarter, resulting in an 11.6% decline for the entire company. Results were strongest in the college division. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:45:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703677.html?rssid=341 Hyperion has postponed the publication of two books by self-help author James Arthur Ray, following the author’s possible involvement in the deaths of three people and hospitalization of 21 others in a sauna-like sweat lodge at an Arizona resort last month. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:54:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703671.html?rssid=341 On November 9, Oprah.com, CNN.com and Facebook will present a live Oprah's Book Club webcast for the current selection, Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan (Back Bay). During the 90-minute event, readers will be able to submit questions for the author and may be featured during the live discussion. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:24:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703643.html?rssid=341 A broad group of opponents to the Google Book Search Settlement filed a letter with the Court Thursday urging judge Denny Chin not to restrict comments on a revised settlement, and to allow more time for would-be class members to assess any proposed revisions. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:41:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703605.html?rssid=341 The Wall Street Journal is running bestseller lists from Nielsen BookScan, starting today. Nielsen is providing three weekly charts, for hardcover fiction, hardcover nonfiction, and business. The charts will appear in the print newspaper and on WSJ.com every Friday. The paper previously developed its own bestseller lists. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:44:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703607.html?rssid=341 John Wiley & Sons has inked a deal with fitness guru Tony Little for a business book called There's Always a Way. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:41:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703603.html?rssid=341 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:17:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703601.html?rssid=341 The PW Morning Report: DoJ and Pricing; Google Critics Seek Further Delay; No Weak Links! ScrollMotion Releases E-Reader App; The Next Big Thing; Amazon Answers Questions. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:38:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703525.html?rssid=341 The American Booksellers Association sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking the government to investigate what it believes is the illegal predatory pricing practices of Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target in selling hardcovers for as low as $8.98. The ABA said it believes the big box retailers are trying to "win control of the market for hardcover bestsellers." Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:30:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703587.html?rssid=341 Sales and earnings in Amazon's third quarter posted big gains, and chairman Jeff Bezos said Kindle has become the company's top-selling item in terms of dollars and units. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:06:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703577.html?rssid=341 Beginning in November, Amazon will begin offering free downloads of Kindle for PC, an e-reading application that will allow consumers to download Kindle edition e-books to any PC running Windows 7, Windows XP or Windows Vista and read them on the PC. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:49:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703576.html?rssid=341 Changes in Penguin Group’s global management structure announced in Frankfurt have also led to a reorganization at Penguin Group (Canada). With president and publisher David Davidar named CEO of a new division, Penguin International, Nicole Winstanley will step into the publisher’s role next January with Davidar remaining as Penguin Canada president. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:41:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703382.html?rssid=341 New progressive press OR Books is using an e-book, print-on-demand strategy to release its first book, Going Rouge. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:25:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703381.html?rssid=341 The PW Morning Report: No Weak Links! Amazon Drops Price of International Kindle; Indie Booksellers Fight Price War; Will There Be Publishers 10 Years Hence?; T.S. Eliot Short List; Maya Banjelou? Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:14:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703348.html?rssid=341 Some people may have difficulty finding humor in the issue of censorship. Thankfully, celebrated author Judy Blume isn't one of them. Nor were the many actors, comedians, authors, and supporters who gathered on Monday evening for “A Night of Comedy with Judy Blume & Friends.” Presented by the National Coalition Against Censorship, the event was both a celebration of the Coalition's 35th anniversary, as well as an opportunity to honor Blume, who has actively battled censorship of her books. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:37:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703321.html?rssid=341 With publishers experimenting on release dates for e-books, Simon & Schuster has announced it is delaying the release of the e-book of Stephen King's eagerly anticipated new 1,000-plus-page novel, Under the Dome. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:52:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703281.html?rssid=341 GSL Publishing Associates has been appointed by the bankruptcy court to oversee the possible sale of Arcade Publishing. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:18:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703191.html?rssid=341 Denise Cronin has been named v-p of subsidiary rights for the Random House Publishing Group, filling a position that has been open since Rebecca Gardner left in late September to be rights director at the Gernert Company. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:56:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703190.html?rssid=341 HarperCollins's San Francisco-based  imprint, HarperOne, has inked psychic (and bestseller) Sylvia Browne to a three-book deal. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:47:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703189.html?rssid=341 Janice Goldklang, the former publisher of Knopf’s Pantheon Books imprint, landed at Globe Pequot Press today after leaving Random House Inc. as part of a restructuring earlier this year. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:34:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703184.html?rssid=341 The PW Morning Report: No Weak Links! Frankfurt Fires Official Over China; LibreDigital Ranked Among Fastest Growing; Palin Meets Oprah; Nook Live Blog; Another Granta Staffer Gone; Kanye Comic. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:08:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703179.html?rssid=341 Turns out those mysterious photos released last week of a rumored Barnes & Noble-sponsored digital reader were the real deal. B&N CEO Steve Riggio along with B&N.com president William Lynch were on hand to show off the new device—called the Nook—at a packed press conference on the west side of Manhattan Tuesday afternoon. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:22:00 PDT http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702980.html?rssid=341 Cartoonist and animator Guy Delisle has lived and worked in both Shenzhen, China and Pyongyang, North Korea. He recorded his experiences living in these cities (and in their respective national cultures) in two well-received book-length comics works, Shenzhen (Drawn &Quarterly 2006) and Pyongyang (D&Q 2005), utilizing his unique dry humor, conversational tone, and focus on the everyday to capture the contradictions of the place and the experience of a foreigner encountering them for the first time. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:05:00 PDT