2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced – New York Times
The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes, celebrating achievement in newspaper and online journalism, literature, nonfiction and musical composition, were announced Monday afternoon at Columbia University in New York. The prizes, given annually since 1917, are awarded in 21 categories.
No fiction winner, but there is a nonfiction winner, poetry winner, and a biography winner. Even better: the poetry winner came from an independent press!
The Broad Strokes of the Hachette, HarperCollins and S&S Price-Fixing Settlement – Publisher’s Weekly – Andrew Albanese & Rachel Deahl
FINALLY. Need an understanding of what went down yesterday with the DOJ? Publisher’s Weekly wonderfully lays it out.
Three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster—have agreed to a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle federal claims of price fixing regarding e-books. PW takes an initial look at the broad strokes of the deal, and what it means for the settling publishers.
They have the terms, compliance, timing, and reaction. Definitely take a look at it.
ttyl Series Tops List of Most Challenged Titles – Publisher’s Weekly
The ALA has released its list of the Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011. The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received 326 reports regarding attempts to remove or restrict materials from school curricula and library bookshelves.
ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle topped the list for offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group content. Some other surprising (and not so surprising – Brave New World, anyone? Why are we still battling that?) books and series make the list.
Google Ends eBook Agreement with Indies – Publisher’s Weekly – Judith Rosen
On Tuesday representatives of Google contacted the American Booksellers Association and Powell’s Books to announce that it will end its Google eBooks reseller program worldwide. In February, it had seemed as if independent booksellers were getting a reprieve when Google reinstated some affiliate stores that had low sales. But in yet another sign of industry consolidation, Google will start selling e-books solely through its recently launched Google Play beginning January 31, 2013.
If you rely on Google ebooks, don’t worry. They will still be available on bookseller websites. This is still pretty sad news.
Check them out!!! Buy them!!! Enjoy the magical world again, digitally!
Pottermore is the only place to buy them, as of right now.
Confirmed by Publisher’s Weekly and Shelf Awareness. Go here to shop.
Who else is participating in WBN2012? Have you found out what you will be giving? I’m excited to pass outThe Hunger Games!
Random House US Author Portal Online Resource Goes Live March 12 – PRWeb
Random House, Inc., today announced the launch of the Random House Author Portal, a secure, one-stop online resource that provides thousands of Random House U.S. authors and illustrators with access to comprehensive up-to-date information about their sales, royalties and subsidiary rights deals for their newly published and backlist books.
Authors get to receive inside information and access about their books and sales? Pretty nifty!
The Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury of IBBY Announces the 2012 Short List -Pitch Engine – Raab Associates
Five authors and five illustrators have been selected from 57 candidates submitted by 32 national sections of IBBY for the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award. The award, considered the most prestigious in international children’s literature, is given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made lasting contributions to children’s literature. The winners will be announced on Monday, March 19th at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
Check out the five authors and five illustrators that made the list. Congratulations!
By a Lady: First Editions of the Novels of Jane Austen – The Cataloguer‘s Desk – Laura Massey
In spite of becoming a twentieth-century pop-culture phenomenon, the inspiration for numerous romantic films and chick-lit publications, Jane Austen remains one of literature’s most significant novelists. Today, in honour of International Women’s Day, we’ll push aside the accumulated sentiment to look at Jane Austen as writer and author, and examine the publishing history of her novels.
Check out the history of her novels, plus surviving first editions! They’re all in amazing condition.
Publisher’s Weekly – Marc Schultz
The historical novel is a perennial fixture in the book business, a nimble genre that works its way into all corners of the storytelling ecosystem: bestseller lists, hot new subgenres, movie adaptations and, of course, the literary canon. Historicals make up more than half of the just-released longlist for the UK’s Orange Prize for woman-penned fiction, and scripted historicals are in full force on TV (Downton Abbey, Mad Men) and at the movies (2011 Best Picture winner The Artist was one of four historicals nominated for the honor—five, if you count Midnight in Paris). This week, they’re also all over the On-Sale Calendar.
I’m a huge fan of historical novels! There’s something fun and thrilling about taking historical fact, throwing in fictional characters or turn-of-events, and creating a new piece. Sometimes the novels can be silly, and other times there are gems that convince you of plausibility.
This list contains historical paranormal, historical romance, historical fiction, historical mystery, and even “straight-up” history in the nonfiction list. Michael Morpurgo (author of War Horse) is also mentioned in his latest young reader book about a cat on the Titanic.
Scribbles & Wanderlust 