While authors have always been – and will continue to be — the driving force behind popular children’s characters, more publishers than ever are now also looking in-house for the ideas that will eventually become the next Fancy Nancy or Hunger Games. Original, publisher-generated intellectual property (IP) is nothing new—Alloy has long perfected this model with…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alloy, Ben Schrank, Callaway, Corinne Helman, Devereux Chatillon, Edmund and Cecile, Eric Huang, Falling Kingdom, Fancy Nancy, Game of Thrones, Gossip Girl, HarperCollins, Hunger Games, Jess Brallier, Jonathan Yaged, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, McGraw-Hill, Morgan Rhodes, Penguin UK, Play and Learn with Wallace, Poptropica, Pretty Little Liars, Publishers Launch: Children’s Publishing Goes Digital, Razorbill, Zola
The 2012 version of our annual Who’s Scouting Whom Literary Scout Contact Sheet remains largely the same as last year’s. The most notable change among the 14 agencies listed is the growth of the Erin Edmison / Peter Harper venture and Liz Gately Book Scouting, both of which have more than doubled their roster of…Continue Reading
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Tagged Aram Fox, Barbara Tolley, Bettina Schrewe, Del Commune Enterprises, Erin Edmison, Franklin & Siegal, Jane Starr, Jayne Pliner, Jutta Klein, Linda Clark, Liz Gately Book Scouting, Maria B. Campbell, Peter Harper, Sanford Greenburger, Simone Garzella, Thompson Associates, Who’s Scouting Whom Literary Scout Contact Sheet
While the past couple of months have been filled with press conferences with big presentations announcing the latest tablets and ereaders on the market, many older models from the major players have left the market with little fanfare. The iRiver Story seemingly disappeared as soon as it hit the shelves, and Nook has simplified its…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, Apple, Arc, Barnes & Noble, Color, E Ink, Fire HD, GlowLight, Google, iPad, iRiver Cover Story, iRiver Story, Kindle, Kobo, Mini, Nexus, Nook, Paperwhite, Rakuten, Reader, Retina display, Simple Touch, Sony, Tablet
While MBAs have long been thought of as a major advantage in the corporate job market, there have traditionally been relatively few in trade publishing. But that has been changing in the last decade or so – beyond house heads such as HarperCollins’ Brian Murray, Macmillan’s John Sargeant, and Perseus’s David Steinberger who have theirs (Simon & Schuster’s Carolyn Reidy has a PhD), Random…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adam Silverman, Amanda Close, Basic Books, Book-of-the-Month Club, Brendan Cahill, Brian Murray, Carolyn Reidy, David Steinberger, GalleyCat, HarperCollins, John Sargeant, Macmillan, MBA, Milena Alberti, Nation Books, Nature Share, Nihar Malaviya, Nina von Moltke, Open Road, Perseus, PublicAffairs, Random House, Robin Straus, Robin Straus Agency, Sabrina McCarthy, Simon & Schuster, Steven Sandonato, Susan Weinberg, Time Home Entertainment Inc, YPG
Conventional wisdom would suggest that authors who work in publishing would be the most critical as their insider knowledge allows them to judge the editing, selling and marketing capabilities of the house releasing their book. But in fact, what we discovered when we interviewed a number of people, is that these authors are among the…Continue Reading
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Tagged Abrams, Accelerated, authors, Ballantine Books, Barnes & Noble, Bronwen Hruska, Carole DeSanti, Claiborne Hancock, David Levithan, Erin McHugh, Every Day, Franklin Spier, Grove/Atlantic, Henry Holt, Henry Parker series, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jack Macrae, Jason Pinter, Jennifer E. Smith, Jessica Case, John Donatich, Knopf, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, One Good Deed, Pegasus Books, Poppy, publishing industry, Rachel Cohn, Soho Press, The Mark, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R., The Variations, This Is What Happy Looks Like
According to annual tradition, we have lifted the most impressive (and amusing) tidbits from the short biographies of the 104 students who are completing this summer’s Columbia Publishing Course 2012. While we’ve added a few phrases here and there to make a cohesive narrative, the adventures and accomplishments are as recounted by the students themselves. *****…Continue Reading
Our sister site, Publishing Trendsetter, posted this great Book-Jobs Not by the Book interview today with Laura Hazard Owen, former Editorial Manager here at Publishing Trends and current book industry journalist for paidContent. Always honest and accessible, Laura’s interview is just as informative as her articles, which cover everything from the DoJ case to Penelope Trunk. The…Continue Reading
When asked what single biggest trend R.R. Donnelley has noticed among its book-publishing clients of late, President of Publishing Services, Rick Marceaux answers, “We have seen a broader set of publishers’ priorities grow with regard to what they look for…across the breadth of the supply chain.” Even as the volume of traditionally manufactured books (defined as…Continue Reading
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Tagged Blurb, Courier Printing, ebooks, Enzo Reale, Joe Caruso, Lulu, Print Media, printer, QR code, Quad/Graphics, R.R. Donnelley, Rick Marceaux, Ricoh, self-publishing, Steve Franzio, Tim McGuire, W. W. Norton
At a point when the words “fast-changing landscape” have become so universally true of publishing that one starts looking for alternative phrasings to avoid monotony, surprisingly little change appears between the Publishing Trends Distributor Survey 2011 and the results for this year. We list 25 total companies with no new additions this year: 12 publishers…Continue Reading
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Tagged Abrams, Antique Collectors' Club, ARTBOOK | D.A.P., BDS / AtlasBooks, Chicago Distribution Center, Consortium, Disney/Hyperion, distributor, Globe Pequot, Greenleaf Book Group, Hachette, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Independent Publishers’ Group (IPG), Ingram Publisher Services, International Publishers Marketing, Macmillan, Midpoint Trade, National Book Network (NBN), Norton, Penguin, Perseus Distribution, Publishers Group West, Publishing Trends, Random House, Red Wheel/Weiser, SCB Distributors, Simon & Schuster
