Category Archives: Booksellers

Major player in American writing makes all 27 titles available in e-book format.

Posted on October 31, 2006 by Aurel

Warren Adler, who has all his books available in traditional print, is a pioneering author in electronic publishing as well. All twenty-seven of Mr. Adler’s books can now be purchased and downloaded online.

DPPpress (www.dpppress.com) and DigitalPulp Publishing (www.digitalpulppublishing.com), an eBook publishing and distribution company, launched their online bookstore (www.dppstore.com) just ten months ago.

Opening their store with just seven titles, the DPPstore’s virtual shelves are now lined with five hundred titles by new authors and the best eBooks from independent publishers, creating an eclectic array of literary offerings.

The DPPstore (www.dppstore.com) continues to grow and this week is pleased to announce it has added 27 more eBooks, all by critically acclaimed author Warren Adler.

As a novelist, Mr. Adler’s themes deal primarily with intimate human relationships — the mysterious nature of love and attraction, the fragile relationships between husbands and wives and parents and children, the corrupting power of money, the aging process and how families cling together when challenged by the outside world. His books have been cited by readers and reviewers for their insight and wisdom in presenting and deciphering the complexities of contemporary life.
His novels have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Ten of his novels have been sold or optioned to the movies, and two have become major motion pictures, the classic The War of the Roses and Random Hearts.

Warren Adler is arguably the only author in the world, published by major publishing houses, who has re-acquired the English language and foreign rights to his entire backlist of more than 25 novels. Stonehouse Press (Adler’s own publishing company) has made the English language versions available in all eBook formats and Print-on-Demand formats in trade and hardcover.

full press release here

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B&N unveils online book club

Posted on October 30, 2006 by Keren

The world’s largest book chain is trying to create the world’s largest book club. Barnes & Noble has launched an interactive, online book club (at bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com), allowing readers to commingle—digitally, at least—with authors. Barnes & Noble Book Clubs, which launched this week with author Carl Hiaasen—his next book, Nature Girl, hits November 14—as one of its first featured authors available for questions and online chatter. B&N plans to host online talks with roughly 30 authors this fall and will also have discussions, hosted by bn.com online moderators, about classics and “noteworthy titles” in a variety of categories such as personal finance and health.

Marie Toulantis, CEO of bn.com, said the promotional opportunity for authors–which follows on the heels of the successful Barnes & Noble Recommends program, through which the giant retailer highlights one book a season to aggressively push in its stores–”meets the needs of authors who are eager to reach as broad an audience as possible.”

Read the Publisher’s Weekly article here.

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Cappuccino and a Kids Book, Please.

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Aurel

More on Starbucks, Bookseller Extraordinaire:

“It’s not the typical kindergartener who starts his day with a cappuccino, but Starbucks and Random House Audio Group have teamed to offer youngsters their own delicious pick-me-up, resuscitating the Rabbit Ears line of classic children’s audiobooks, beginning with The Velveteen Rabbit and The Night Before Christmas. The former, penned by Margery Williams, read by Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep, with musical accompaniment by renowned New Age pianist George Winston, will be available exclusively in Starbucks’ 5,200 U.S. locations beginning August 29. Christmas, read by Streep with traditional holiday carols performed by Mark O’Connor, Christ Church Cathedral Church, and The Edwin Hawkins Singers, will follow November 7.

“Audiobooks are something that teachers and librarians have used with children for many, many years,” says Amanda D’Acierno, director, publicity and marketing at Random House Audio. “Audiobooks help readers of every level, from struggling readers to the most advanced readers. Your listening comprehension is so far ahead of your reading comprehension in children. So Starbucks’ putting these books in every store, it’s a way for us to reach not only the teachers and librarians, but also, directly, all of the parents who go in and out of Starbucks every day. We think that’s a good thing for young readers.”

Read the Full Article from Pages Magazine

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The Book Sense National Bestseller List – October 15, 2006

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Aurel
Published Thursday, October 19, 2006 (for the sales week ended Sunday, October 15,2006). Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense across the United States.

 

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Debuts for the week:
Hardcover Fiction
#3-ECHO PARK by Michael Connelly (0316734950)
#5-ACT OF TREASON by Vince Flynn (0743270371)
#15-ONE GOOD TURN by Kate Atkinson (0316154849)
Hardcover Nonfiction
#2-THE INNOCENT MAN by John Grisham (0385517238)
#6-AGELESS by Suzanne Somers (0307237249)
#9-BLOOD AND THUNDER by Hampton Sides (0385507771)
#13-WHY WE WANT YOU TO BE RICH by Robert Kiyosaki, Donald Trump (1933914025)
#15-I LIKE YOU by Amy Sedaris (0446578843)
Paperback Fiction
#4-THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS by Kiran Desai (0802142818)
#6-THE LIGHTHOUSE by P.D. James (0307275736)
Paperback Nonfiction
#6- BAD PRESIDENT by R.D. Rosen, et al. ( 0761146202)
#8-1491 by Charles C. Mann (1400032059)
#10-Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk (1400033888)
#11-THE RIVER OF DOUBT by Candice Millard (0767913736)
Children’s Illustrated
#15-YOUR PERSONAL PENGUIN by Sandra Boynton (0761143726)
Children’s Fiction Series
The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13, 0064410161)
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Another plunge in store sales

Posted on October 14, 2006 by Keren

Bookstore sales tumbled 7.7% in August, to just over $2 billion, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The decline follows a 9.3% drop in bookstore sales in July. While the plunge in July was explained in part by the big spike in demand in July 2005 for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, reasons for the sales decline in August are less clear. The summer slump pushed total sales through August down by 2.1%, to $10.55 billion. For all of retail, sales were up 6.9% in the first eight months of 2006 and were ahead 6.7% in August.

Article from Publisher’s Weekly.

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Bloomsbury says its autumn list is a knockout

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Keren

Bloomsbury’s autumn schedule is its best yet, boasts the publisher’s chairman Nigel Newton, with books as diverse as David Blunkett’s political memoirs, the latest from William Dalrymple and Margaret Atwood, Schott’s Almanac and even the collected speeches of Gordon Brown.

Announcing first-half profits in line with the City’s own scribblings, Mr Newton said its forthcoming list was “the strongest autumn programme in our 20-year history”.

 Read the Guardian Unlimited article here.

Posted in Book Release, Booksellers, Publishers, Reading |

B&N Asks: Where Are You, Harry Potter?

Posted on August 17, 2006 by Jesse

As J.K. Rowling toils away somewhere in Scotland on the final edition of Harry Potter, Barnes & Noble has little to do but shuffle its feet and wait for something to stimulate growth. After all, B&N may be the best-run bookseller out there, but how much is that worth when the whole sector isn’t growing much these days?

Read the full story here.

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More on Starbucks bookselling

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Jesse

We reported on it yesterday, but today’s PW Daily has further details not included in the previous article. For One More Day will have a first printing of 2.2 million copies, and Albom will be making eight appearances at Starbucks locations: New York City, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Dallas, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Starbucks will launch a new website, StarbucksBookBreak.com, tomorrow.

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Starbucks selling books

Posted on August 7, 2006 by Jesse

Though I’m in the vast minority among writers, I’ve never been very fond of Starbucks (probably due to past criticism and controversy). However, the coffee company will be selling Mitch Albom’s newest novel, For One More Day, in its stores this autumn – and it looks like that’s going to be giving some major publicity to the book.

Mitch is already well-known among many readers for his first novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, which sold over eight million copies.

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Finally, an update!

Posted on August 4, 2006 by Jesse

It’s summer, the season of being lazy. Really, even that isn’t a good enough explination for the lack of updates on WN, but I’ll do my very best too see that it doesn’t happen again.

So, a quick overview of what’s happened since the last update:

- Well-known novelists Stephen King and John said they’re hoping J.K. Rowling doesn’t kill off Harry in the seventh and final book in her series. Read the story…

- Fantasy author David Gemmell died at the age of 57. Read the story…

- The Associated Press has a story suggesting that the craze for The Da Vinci Code (and similar novels released since) may finally be slowing down. Read the story…

There were some books released since the last update, too.

On July 25th: The Messenger by Daniel Silva, Dead Wrong by J.A. Jance, and The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan.

On July 31st: Judge & Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross.

On August 1st: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist.

And some news regarding writing websites:

- Inkify has a new temporary black design.
- “David Wellington has the first chapter of his new, free serial novel Frostbite up.” View the website here. Thanks to Keren for submitting that.

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