March 28, 2008
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Johnston to Form New Imprint for S&S Children's; Andrews Moves to Little, Brown
More talent from the formerly separate Harcourt Trade and Houghton Mifflin continues to spread throughout the business. Harcourt children's book veteran Allyn Johnston has joined Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing and will be vp and publisher of a new imprint located in San Diego. Johnston will report to S&S Children's trade publisher Rubin Pfeffer. Calling her "one of the most respected editors in the business," Pfeffer notes "her base in San Diego assures that as she continues to discover and develop writers and illustrators, she will bring S&S that certain west-coast savvy that is uniquely hers."
 
In 20 years at Harcourt Children's Johnston has worked on such books as TIME FOR BED by Mem Fox and Jane Dyer, ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN by Debra Frasier, LEAF MAN by Lois Ehlert, THE END OF THE BEGINNING by Avi, the Mr. Putter & Tabby series by Cynthia Rylant and Arthur Howard, the Thrilling Tales series by M. T. Anderson, and POWERS by Ursula K. Le Guin.
 
In other children's book news, Julie Andrews will continue her Julie Andrews Collection to Little, Brown Children's, overseen by editorial director Liza Baker. Created with her daughter Emma Walton, the line has published 25 titles at Harper Children's. Little, Brown's first book will be JULIE ANDREWS' COLLECTION OF FAVORITE POEMS, SONGS AND LULLABIES publishing in fall 2009.

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Pilar Queen has joined McCormick and Williams as an agent, continuing to represent narrative non-fiction, practical non-fiction and women's commercial fiction. She was at Inkwell Management.
 
Kevin Moran has resigned as publisher of Hatherleigh Press to establish a publishing consulting business. 
 
Samantha Evans has left the special sales department of Harry N. Abrams and is now associate director of sales & licensing in the consumer products division of BBC Worldwide Americas.

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POD Publishers Told to Sell Directly Through Amazon, They Have to Use Booksurge
Amazon has tried a number of tactics to push the print-on-demand services of their Booksurge subsidiary and now the company is using its leverage in the marketplace to drive that business. For the past month the e-tailer has been explaining their new policy to publishers who use print-on-demand: To have a direct "buy" button that lets customers purchase POD books from Amazon rather than from third-party sellers featured on the site, those books must be printed and fulfilled by Booksurge.
 
Spokesperson Tammy Hovey tells the WSJ, "It's a strategic decision. What we're looking to do is have a print-on-demand business that better serves our customers and authors. When we work with some other publishers, it's not truly a print-on-demand business." She "declined to provide specifics," according to the Journal, but "said she doesn't consider the move an ultimatum."
 
The new policy was first brought to light through a coordinated blogging effort by some of the affected POD publishers. Co-owner of POD publisher BookLocker.com Angela Hoy has the longest post on her WritersWeekly zine. She reports on a conversation with a Booksurge salesperson who "admitted that books not converted to BookSurge would have the 'buy' button turned off on Amazon.com, just as we'd heard from several other POD publishers who had similar conversations with Amazon/BookSurge representatives."
 
There are no accounts yet of the policy being imposed on traditional publishers that also use Lightning Source or other print-on-demand vendors; by the current accounts the moved is aimed at independent publishers whose focus is POD books as well as self-publishing competitors to Booksurge such as Lulu.com. (Separately, Amazon has been working since mid-2006 to get mainstream publishers to use Booksurge for print-on-demand books sold through the e-tailer, for traditional purposes -- out of print books; large print; etc. -- as well as to fulfill "demand spikes" when a regular title is temporarily out of stock.) Ingram and their Lightning Source operation have worked closely with Amazon in the past in a variety of ways, including packing orders with Amazon packages and labels.
 

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March 27, 2008
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Books-A-Million: Weak Finish to Decent Year
Fourth quarter sales at BAM tailed off after the holiday period (when same-store sales were flat), with comparable sales down 1.6 percent against a year ago, though up 3 percent overall at $168 million. Net income fell slightly to $16.5 million for the quarter.
 
For the full fiscal year, sales were up 2.8 percent percent to $535 million, a Potter-powered 1.4 percent increase on a same-store basis, but net income fell by $2.4 million to $16.5 million. (Direct comparisons are a little tricky, since the prior fiscal year comprised 53 weeks instead of 52 weeks.)
 
CEO Sandra Cochran says in the release, "Our focus on the fundamentals of our business, including gross margin, inventory management, and discipline in cost control delivered solid earnings in spite of the difficult economic conditions in the fourth quarter."
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Scholastic Takes Writedown on Continuities Unit; Revises Forecast
Scholastic reported third quarter results, with overall sales up slightly at $458 million and a larger net operating loss of $4.6 million. But the total loss was much higher, including a $72.7 million writedown on the discontinued direct-to-home continuities business.
 
In the signature children's book publishing and distribution segment, sales were $230 million, down from $239 million a year ago, though operating income rose to $10.2 million, up almost $1 million. Trade publishing was up, still helped by Harry Potter, as school book club and school-based continuity sales fell.
 
The weak dollar gave the company a $10.1 million foreign exchange gain from their international sales.
 
The company also revised their sales and earnings forecast for fisal 2008, expecting lower sales but better income. They now project total revenues of $2.2 billion to $2.3 billion (down from a range of $2.3 billion to $2.5 billion), and earnings at the higher end of the forecasted range, at $2.50 to $2.85 per share (up from a wider range of $2.35 to $2.85 per share.) Thomson Financial's survey of analysts has a consensus expectation of earnings of $2.79 a share.
 
CEO Dick Robinson notes in the release, "Scholastic's core businesses performed solidly overall in the third quarter as we maintain our focus on improving profitability.... Looking ahead we expect the ongoing businesses to meet our fiscal 2008 goals and are on track to achieve 9 to 10% operating margins in fiscal 2010."
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Collins continues to recruit editors, with Caroline Sutton moving to their lifestyle/wellness imprint as executive editor, beginning April 14. Sutton has been executive editor at Ballantine.
 
After 26 years with the agency, Carol Frederick, director of the international scouting department at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, has announced that she is departing, in order to work free-lance. She will be replaced by Agnes Krup, who has worked in international rights for more than twenty years, with Rowohlt Verlag, Brockman, The Karpfinger Agency, and her own foreign rights agency. Krup has begun working at Sanford J. Greenburger and will take over direction of the department by the second week of May.
 
Tina Wexler of ICM has been promoted to literary agent. She has been specializing in children's books, but now she will expand her adult fiction and non-fiction lists.
 
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Dispensed With?
Writer Joe Lavin breaks the embargo on Jose Canseco's second book about the same subject via his web site, picked up by traditional media. He found VINDICATED on sale in a Cambridge bookstore ahead of the April 1 release date.
 
In brief: "The [Magglio] Ordonez story is, by now, routine -- just that old yarn of one player injecting another with steroids, possibly in the buttocks."
 
"The evidence against Clemens is somewhat flimsy, and Canseco even admits that he's not completely sure that Clemens used steroids.... He does later state that Clemens did not attend the much-discussed barbecue at Canseco's house which was mentioned in the Mitchell Report."
 
"As for Alex Rodriguez, Canseco says he didn't inject Rodriguez, but that he 'introduced Alex to a known supplier of steroids.' Canseco didn't mention Rodriguez in the first book because he 'hated the bastard.'"
Joe Lavin

Indiana Adult Material Law Could Impinge on Bookstores
An Indiana law signed last week and set for implementation on July 1 is causing concern among some of the state's booksellers. It "requires businesses that sell sexually explicit material to pay a $250 fee and register with the secretary of state, which would then pass the information to municipal or county officials so they can monitor the businesses for potential violations of local ordinances," the Indy Star notes. "The law does not apply to businesses that sell sexually explicit material on or before June 30; it applies only to new businesses, those that relocate or businesses that begin offering such material after that date."
 
The paper adds that "groups representing state and national booksellers say the law casts its net too wide. A legal scholar agrees, calling it overly broad and so ambiguous that it may violate constitutional rights."
 
Owner of Big Hat Books Elizabeth Barden is concerned that the law could include "just about any coming-of-age novel and books on health, hygiene and human sexuality."
Indy Star

Evelyn Waugh Estate Moves to Wylie
With PFD just a shell of its former self, the Evelyn Waugh estate has switched representation to The Wylie Agency. Ironically, "under a longstanding arrangement, PFD still owns 20 per cent of the estate," which makes PFD a client of Wylie's too.
 
Despite an account from Alexander Waugh that he was shopping the rights and called Wylie to elicit interest, the Times is besides itself with the usual press accounts of "the Jackal" (called that only in newspapers) at work. Waugh says, "PFD had lost a lot of living writers. It seemed possible it might not succeed, so we shopped around."
 
The crafty Wylie -- like the jackal itself, "adapted for hunting small mammals, birds and reptiles... capable of maintaining speeds of 10mph" (wikipedia) -- returned the phone call with cunning and aggressive speed. "Andrew was just unbelievably quick," Waugh recalls. "No sooner had I said who I was and what I wanted than the telephone rang back."
Times

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Personnel News
Gersh Agency vp of books and literary properties Amy Schiffman has left the agency and joined IPG (Intellectual Property Group) as a partner, alongside Joel Gotler, Jerry Kalajian and Larry Becsey.
 
Donna Passannante moves over to become marketing director for Clarkson Potter, Potter Craft, Potter Style, and Three Rivers Press, reporting to Philip Patrick, effective April 17. She has been marketing director for Crown, Crown Business, Crown Forum, Harmony, and Shaye Areheart Books. Patty Berg has been hired to fill Passannante's previous post. She has been the director of marketing at Harcourt Trade.
 
Also at Crown, Rachel Klayman has been promoted to executive editor.
 
Jennifer Roberts has been promoted to executive director of marketing, publicity, and events at Candlewick Press. Roberts has been at Candlewick for two years and was previously director.

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Borders, Still Dirt Cheap, Jumps As Goldman Hopes for BN Buy
We've always regarded it as a poverty of imagination that Barnes & Noble is often tipped as a potential acquirer of Borders, and they strike us as among the least likely of acquirers. But Goldman Sachs analyst Matthew Fassler wrote in a report yesterday "we see improved prospects for a deal," and that "Barnes & Noble could generate significant accretion from an acquisition of Borders." As Bloomberg reports, "Barnes & Noble may add more than 10 percent to profit if it paid as much as $13 a share for Borders in an all-cash transaction, Fassler said. An all-stock transaction of as much as $10 a share might also add at least 10 percent to profit, he said." (Bear in mind that even at $10 a share, top shareholder Pershing Square -- which could easily buy the company itself -- will still show a substantial loss on their investment.)
 
Borders stock jumped on the report, recovering some of its plunge from last week, giving the whole company a market capitalization of just over $400 million. At current prices lots of companies could buy Borders.
 
Meanwhile, Barnes & Noble doesn't have to bid for Borders to reap the benefits. The company's value has increased by over $310 million since late last week on the news of Borders' troubles.
Bloomberg

Personnel News and Announcements
Bloomsbury has hired Anton Mueller as executive editor, starting this week. He had been at Houghton Mifflin until recently. Additionally, Nick Trautwein has been promoted to senior editor and Benjamin Adams has been promoted to associate editor.
 
At Little, Brown, publicity director Heather Fain has been promoted to vp and marketing director as Sophie Cottrell moves into her new role as communications director for HBG USA. As part of the changes, Little, Brown's vp executive director of publicity Heather Rizzo will now report directly to publisher Michael Pietsch.
 
John Tagler has been named vp and executive director of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the APP, starting April 21 and working in the New York office. He succeeds Barbara Meredith, who retired last year. Tagler has been at Elsevier for 30 years, most recently as vp, customer marketing, academic and government libraries.
 
A publicist reports that longtime veteran Arthur Salm is no longer the book review editor at the San Diego Union-Tribune, having just been unceremoniously transferred to the paper's metro section. His replacement at the book section is said to be Bob Pinkus.
 
The NY Public Library has named the finalists for their Young Lions Fiction Award to a writer 35 or under:
 
Ron Currie, Jr., God Is Dead
Ellen Litman, The Last Chicken in America
Peter Nathaniel Malae, Teach the Free Man
Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Emily Mitchell, The Last Summer of the World

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Chafee Criticizes Both Parties
Former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee "revels in his outsider status as he chronicles his disillusionment with the bitter partisanship that dominated his seven years in the Senate," the AP reports. In his book Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President, "he wields a broad brush, heaping blame on Republicans and Democrats alike for putting party loyalty and ambition ahead of the public good." But his "harshest scorn" is saved for President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
AP

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March 24, 2008
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2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
Fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
 
Nonfiction
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
 
Children's Literature
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick
 
Children's Illustrated
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity, by Mo Willems
 
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Macaulay Forms Imprint for Roaring Brook
Bestselling author and illustrator (and Caldecott and Macarthur winner) David Macaulay is creating an imprint called David Macaulay Studio at Roaring Brook Press. The imprint will start with two new books by Macaulay in 2011 but will also publish "derivative books published under his editorial direction, and for books by other authors and artists brought to the imprint by him in his capacity as creative director."
 
The two books from Macaulay are HOME SWEET HOME, an exploration of the way our planet's climate and ecosystems work, and a new work on American history.
 
Roaring Brook Publisher Simon Boughton declares, "David Macaulay is a national treasure. He's made a unique contribution to young people's literature, and led readers of all ages to see the world around them in new ways. It's a great thrill and a great privilege to have the opportunity to work with him, and establishing an imprint under his creative direction makes perfect creative and business sense.
 
Ken Wright at Writers House represented Macaulay in the deal.

Cancelled "Reservations"
Three Rivers Press has cancelled GREAT RESERVATIONS, a book by two former concierges at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. Publicity director Katie Wainwright tells the AP, "despite previous and repeated inquiries made by Three Rivers Press, we recently learned that Abigail Hart and Nancy Callahan did not disclose that they had signed confidentiality agreements with their former employer." The book was scheduled for release in June and a few anecdotes had already been cited in gossip columns.
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On Editor Asher, 78
Longtime book editor Aaron Asher, 78, died from complications of cancer on Tuesday. He had an eponymous imprint at HarperCollins after a career that included serving as vp of Holt, Rinehart & Winston; editor in chief of Macmillan's general books division; editor in chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux; and publisher of Grove Press.
 
In 1969, the NYT said Asher was "noted for his distinguished list of authors, tweedy attire and accomplished renditions of Bach preludes and fugues on the piano." They add now in their obituary,"he was routinely brought in by publishers to revive their flagging trade-book divisions."
 
Over the years his authors included Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Milan Kundera, Erich Fromm, Frank Conroy, and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Andrea Sheehan will join the Random House Publishing Group in early May as vp, director, digital strategy and business development, reporting to president Gina Centrello. Sheehan was previously vp, director of online sales and merchandising at Simon and Schuster.
 
Joe McNeely has joined Brilliance Audio, acquiring nonfiction adult titles. He was acquisitions director for Audio Renaissance (now Macmillan Audio) for many years, before forming his own company, Audio Evolution.
 
At Andrews McMeel's Accord division, Paula Hannigan joins the company this week as children's editor, based Denver. Most recently, she was an editor and author at Klutz.
 
At Scholastic's trade publishing division, Joanne Ruelos has joined the company as senior editor, licensed publishing. She had been a senior editor at McGraw Hill. Simon Tepas has moved over to the new position of backlist salesmanager. Simon has been with Scholastic since September 2005 as a coordinator in Scholastic's special markets department working with educational and consumer catalogs, coordinating direct mail, premium and outside book club sales. Previously, he worked in Random House’s special markets division.

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