HarperCollins Expands Digital First | PubCrawl
Traditional publishers may be johnny-come-lately to publishing digital-only and digital-first, but their efforts bring the weight of deep editorial and marketing experience to the digital-only...
View ArticleBowker Launches SelfPublishedAuthor.com | PubCrawl
Libraries have always been a home for writers as much as for readers, and librarians often get asked “How do I get my book published?” Now, Bowker, a ProQuest affiliate and best known as the ISBN...
View ArticleWesterns Thrive at Five Star | PubCrawl
Westerns may represent only a tiny piece of the larger genre pie, but the staying power of Five Star Publishing, a Gale/Cengage Learning company whose primary audience is libraries, indicates a small...
View ArticleAudio Publishers Make More Than Noise | PubCrawl
Audio publishers are moving way beyond their core audience to capture sales to both libraries and consumers. In June, Random House Audio Group launched an online/radio/print ad campaign that reinforces...
View ArticlePenguin Random: Bigger Is Better—Or Not | PubCrawl
My favorite comment on the merger of Penguin and Random House was in an Op Ed in the New York Times. “[M]aybe Random Penguin, as a few wags have suggested, would have been a more apt name.” (The name...
View ArticleThe E-Bundling Challenge | PubCrawl
Just after Labor Day, Amazon announced the October debut of Kindle MatchBook. “For thousands of qualifying books,” purchased new in print going back to 1995, said the company website, customers can get...
View ArticleOpen Road Capitalizes on Success | PubCrawl
The recent infusion of $11 million into Open Road Integrated Media by private equity firm NewSpring Capital and others should come as no surprise to those librarians familiar with company CEO Jane...
View ArticleLibrarians, Distributors Weigh in on Macmillan Ebook Lending | PubCrawl
Ebook distribution to libraries took another leap forward on October 17 when Baker & Taylor, OverDrive, 3M, and RBDigital (Recorded Books) told their customers that Macmillan’s entire ebook...
View ArticleKensington at 40: On Launch Pad | PubCrawl
Kensington Publishing added two subgenres to its mystery line this fall, expanding both its cozies and historical mysteries. “Cozies are like comfort food,” said Karen Auerbach, director of publicity,...
View ArticleSelf-Publishing Skyrockets | PubCrawl
According to a new analysis released in October by ProQuest affiliate Bowker, the ISBN agency, self-publishing continued its growth spurt, up 59 percent in 2012 over 2011, from 246,912 titles to...
View ArticleNew Imprints Signal Publishing Not Dead | PubCrawl
For an industry pronounced dead repeatedly for at least a decade or more, traditional publishing—and its digital-first counterparts, which might not be so different after all—belied the grim reapers,...
View ArticleSevern House: 40 Years of Selling to Libraries | PubCrawl
Edwin Buckhalter, whose UK-based Severn House Publishers turned 40 this year, forged his library connection long before he had any idea of publishing primarily for the library market. His father was a...
View ArticleRandom’s First Look Book Club Up and Running | PubCrawl
In an internal Random House memo, Jen Childs, director of Library Marketing, reported that the department’s latest initiative, First Look Book Club, took off to a roaring start in February, with 2,500...
View ArticleOpen Road Adds SF/Fantasy with E-Reads | PubCrawl
In February, Open Road Integrated Media announced that it would acquire E-Reads, a pioneer ebook publisher founded in 1999 by literary agent Richard Curtis. The deal is scheduled to close April 1, and...
View ArticleChristian Publishing Initiatives Expand | PubCrawl
HarperCollins Christian Publishing (established when HarperCollins, longtime parent company of Zondervan, acquired competitor Thomas Nelson in 2012) is moving more strongly into the library market....
View ArticleJudge Rules for HarperCollins in Ebook Suit | PubCrawl
When Open Road Media published an ebook edition of Jean Craighead George’s 1973 Newbery Award–winning Julie of the Wolves in 2011, it was business as usual for the company, which had secured rights...
View ArticleMission Bell Media Moves Ahead with Mission | PubCrawl
Mission Bell Media (MBM), a new publisher with a laser-like focus on leadership, took one step further into the public eye, debuting its official website (www.missionbellmedia.com) on April 22. MBM is...
View ArticleScribd Adds “Dummies,” Releases Data | PubCrawl
On April 30, Scribd, which launched its “all you can read” $8.99 per month ebook subscription with HarperCollins as the first Big Five publisher last fall, announced a deal that brought 1,000 Wiley...
View ArticlePenguin Targets Nonnative Readers | PubCrawl
Say you’re a professional or businessperson who relocated to the United States. Or you’re a student who came to the this country to study. Or you live outside the United States but deal with Americans....
View ArticleSAGE and Simqu Hit the Mark: An LJ Q&A | PubCrawl
Francine Fialkoff As SAGE Publications’ CEO and president Blaise Simqu celebrated his tenth year in the job this August, he was also gearing up for SAGE’s anniversary: the company, founded in 1965 by...
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