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One thousand copies of a new title from Atria Books will be stickered with a RFID chip allowing any user of a cell phone with near-field communication capabilities to simply tap the tag and engage with the book’s content. The phone’s mobile web browser will be opened to specific book-related content.
Some of the biggest names in the publishing biz have told celebrity news/gossip site TMZ they want absolutely nothing to do with a book deal involving Casey Anthony.
In recent months Amazon has been hiring highly respected editors, and the company is putting out 122 titles this fall. Amazon is already the world's largest retailer of books. As a publisher, it will be selling its own products alongside products by the "big six" publishers — who are not only partners, but now rivals as well. The Big Six include Hachette Book Group, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Penguin Group, Random House and Simon & Schuster.
Three major publishers said on Wednesday that they would allow their authors to access book sales data directly online, a move that appeared to challenge Amazon and its continued efforts to woo authors.
With his newest book, “Killing Geronimo: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden,” comics writer Jerome Maida may well have his most demanding assignment yet.
“A book like this — that we know will also gain interest from people in the military — we want it to be 100 percent accurate down to the details of which types of guns they use,” the Pennsylvania-based Maida says. “The little details can turn someone off on the book” if incorrect.
This new page is designed to enhance readers experience with books and authors by featuring a variety of activities and events including a spotlight “Book-of-the-Month” title.
If predictability is a qualification for success, I suggest to you that we are, as an industry, in for a bit of a roller coaster ride for the next several years.
Publishers Monday scrambled to fill the Osama bin Laden book pipeline, hatching plans for digital titles they could publish almost instantly. Jon Meacham, an executive editor at Random House, is assembling an essay collection about the Al Qaeda leader—titled “Beyond Bin Laden: America and the Future of Terror”—that Random House expects to publish as an e-Book next week.
Others considering a new digital work on Mr. bin Laden include Free Press, an imprint of CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster publishing arm.
Over the past year or so, I have been attending timely and informative book publishing lunch hour Meetup meetings—first come, first serve by advance sign-up —sponsored by Susan Danziger's Publishing Point. They are held in donated upper- floor meeting rooms in the high-rise midtown Manhattan headquarters of major houses such as Random House, Hachette, News Corporation, McGraw Hill—and this past March 23, by CBS, parent of Simon & Schuster, in Studio 19.
98% of more than 600 respondents to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll who said changes to "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" should not be made.