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.
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.
Vook Launches E-book Creation and Publishing Platform – Publisher’s Weekly – Craig Morgean Teicher
Vook, one of the pioneering e-book app developers, is launching a new business today with its Vook e-book creation and publishing platform, a comprehensive, cloud-based tool that allows authors and publishers to turn any document into a professionally styled e-book. Vook’s platform then makes it easy to distribute the finished e-book to Amazon, iBooks and BN.com. The platform also allows users to embed images, videos and other multimedia into e-books to create enhanced e-books. PW has been testing the platform and it could indeed be a game changer, giving small and large publishers fairly inexpensive, one-stop access to e-book publication.
*impressed, low whistle* Well, there you have it, folks!
Goodreads’ CEO on Winning the Battle of Book Discovery – Publishing Perspectives – Otis Chandler (guest contributor, CEO)
We’ve all known for a while that the most valuable commodity for the sustained promotion of a book is word-of-mouth buzz. Goodreads was founded on the belief that a recommendation from a friend is the best way to find a book, more powerful than a glowing review in the New York Times or a mention on a TV show. There’s something about that trusted friend handing you the book and saying, “You must read this!”
And it has worked. According to a recent survey of Goodreads members, 79% of them report discovering books from friends offline, and 64% find books from their Goodreads friends.
Interestingly, the power of a friend’s recommendation has grown. Today, the recommendation doesn’t even have to be explicit, it can be as simple as seeing a friend reading a book. When you see what a friend is reading – whether on Goodreads, through an update on our Facebook Timeline app, or in person – it automatically triggers your interest. It becomes a new form of a recommendation, social validation.
Chandler breaks down the “evolving nature of book discovery” through five key points:
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!
Boutiques at Barnes & Noble – Wallstreet Journal – Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
Barnes & Noble Inc. is expanding a nascent effort to install boutiques within its stores selling books and other items associated with the Penguin publishing house, the latest step by the retailer to boost store revenue amid a shift toward e-books and sales of physical books online.
200 sq. feet will be dedicated to Penguin titles, totes, mugs, and other merchandise! Personally, I’m very excited about this. I hope it expands to other B&Ns in the future (although apparently there aren’t any foreseeable plans at the moment).
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.
U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers – Wallstreet Journal – Thomas Catan & Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The Justice Department believes that Apple and the publishers acted in concert to raise prices across the industry, and is prepared to sue them for violating federal antitrust laws, the people familiar with the matter said.
This article details the digital history between Apple and publishers, the changes both have made for purchasing digital books, and what the Justice Department believes should be done.
Indies Choice Nominees Named – Publishers Lunch
Winners will be named April 5th!
Nominees include:
ALA Asks Random to Scale Back Price Hikes – Publisher’s Weekly – Andrew Albanese
While ALA president Molly Raphael praised Random House’s “engagement with libraries and its commitment to perpetual access,” she urged Random House to scale back the price increase. “I am deeply disappointed in the severe escalation in e-book pricing,” Raphael said. “The American Library Association strongly urges Random House to reconsider its decision. In a time of extreme financial constraint, a major price increase effectively curtails access for many libraries, and especially our communities that are hardest hit economically.”
In response, Stuart Applebaum, spokesman for Random House, said the publisher welcomes “continuing discussions on the value we place on the unrestricted perpetuity, as well as the simultaneous release of our titles to retail booksellers and public libraries, the key differentiating factors determining our new pricing to library wholesalers.”
Remember last week’s news on Random House increasing e-book prices? Here’s the conversation between ALA and Random House.
Scribbles & Wanderlust 