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B&N Won’t Stock If I Did It in Stores
The nation’s three largest booksellers have made their decisions about carrying If I Did It, and the results suggest that more customers may be buying the book online than in stores. Amazon said it will carry If I Did It on its site just as it would any other book, and Barnes & Noble.com will [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Penguin Launches VP Book Club Online
The Penguin Group has launched the VP Book Club, an online reading resource featuring titles from Viking Press and Penguin Group. The site is aimed at reading groups and will feature the regular presentation of new Viking hardcovers, Penguin paperbacks and Penguin Classics. The new site offers a monthly newsletter, an archive collecting the books [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book Excerpts to Be Viewed on IPhone
The publishing world is linking up to the iPhone.HarperCollins announced Wednesday that it had set up a special link, http://mobile.harpercollins.com, that will allow browsers to view excerpts from more than a dozen new releases, including Michael C. White’s “Soul Catcher” and Michael Korda’s “Ike,” a biography of President Eisenhower.
“Reaching consumers on mobile devices and the [...]
DailyLit Adds Publishers, Titles
From Publishers Weekly:
DailyLit, a new company formed this spring to deliver books to customers via e-mail or RSS installments, has added two more publishers to its roster as well as 150 new public domain titles. Perseus Books Group and Globe Pequot have both agreed to give titles to DailyLit, which will launch its paid service [...]
Another Bad Month for Bookstore Sales
Info from Publishers Weekly :
Bookstore sales fell again in June, dropping 6.6%, to $1.13 billion, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales declined every month in the January through June period, resulting in a 4.6% drop in bookstore sales at the midway point of 2007. For the entire retail sector, sales were [...]
Ted Lewin Returns to the Ring
From Publishers Weekly:Â
Ted Lewin has created more than 100 books for children, including Caldecott Honor Book Peppe the Lamplighter and Market, named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. Before launching his writing and illustration career, the aspiring artist attended Pratt Institute, and financed his tuition by working part-time as a professional wrestler, an experience [...]
It’s Fast Forward for Play Bac
From Publishers Weekly:
Originally based in France, Play Bac Publishing—the publishers of My Daily, a French daily newspaper for kids, and the originator of the enormously successful Brainquest series—has recently launched a U.S. publishing operation. Located in lower Manhattan, Play Bac entered the American market last month with three new series: Vocabulary Power, Homework Helpster and [...]
Stewart Signs 10 Book Deal
From  Publishers Weekly
Martha Stewart has signed a 10-book deal with her longtime publisher Clarkson Potter. The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The Original Classics and The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics are the first two planned titles to emerge from the deal, and are scheduled to be released in September 2007 and October 2007, [...]
‘Harry’ Translation Lands Teen in Jail
A 16 year old French boy has spent a night in jail and faces charges of intellectual property violation. He accomplished a mystifying feat in translating all 759 pages of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” within days of its July 21 release and posting it online. The rest of the article from the AP:
Author [...]
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