05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
INscribe has announed a new slate of distribution deals with Harvest House Publishers, Wayne State University Presss, M-Y Books, Folio Literary Management, The Laura Dail Literary Agency, Mercury Ink, Publishing Consultants, and Oberon Books.
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
John Green’s young adult novel Looking for Alaska once more became the target of censorship when it was recently banned from classrooms in Sumner County, Tenn.
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
Kimberly Snead has been hired to fill the newly created role of director of brand strategy at Random House's Crown Publishing Group.
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
Eamon Dolan Books
Eamon Dolan returned to HMH in May 2011 after moving to the Penguin Press in 2007. Since his return Dolan has immersed himself in preparing for the launch of his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books.
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
Reinvention
It might not have had as many lives as your average cat, but Weinstein Books has gone through more than a few reincarnations. The new team at Weinstein, which has Georgina Levitt as publishing director and Amanda Murray as editorial director, was announced in February, and the pair will release their first title, Bully (which is based on the Weinstein-produced documentary of the same name), in September.
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
It took just over five months for it to happen, but Fifty Shades of Grey has passed The Hunger Games as Amazon's #1 bestselling book of 2012.
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Publishers Weekly portal (powered by Edelweiss) is open for publisher submissions of fall titles, adult and children’s—but it closes at end of day, Monday, May 14.
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
Authors’ representatives – otherwise known as literary agents – have done some writing on their own this week.
05/10/2012 @ 12:00AM
In white polycarbonate casing with aluminum fixings and measuring 91.5x95x95 millimeters, Story Beam is a portable mini beam projector that functions as a bedtime storyteller.
The Roundup for Publisher News
Publishing news from across the Web
In an open letter to the DoJ published on Digital Book World, agent Simon Lipskar says the government has "a fatally flawed understanding of the economics and history of the emerging e-book industry."
The publisher has reduced the retail prices of e-books to the level of the paperback equivalents of about 2,000 literary titles published in hardback.
Inside University of Nebraska's Bison Books, which publishes four to eight hardcore baseball books per year.
The publisher is trying to handle its debt load.
Top Bestsellers
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Chomp | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
