Targeted Sales to Enthusiasts Turn the Off-Beat Into Big Bucks Looking for the bestselling art books in America? Sniffing around the Ansel Adams shelves, perhaps? Nope, not there. Taking a peek at Taschen’s Fetish Girls? Nice try. According to numbers from Nielsen BookScan, you’d better swing by the cartoon section. Because the top art titles…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Twist of the Wrist, Anime Mania, Ansel Adams, BN.com, BookScan, Buck Brannaman, Charles Nurnberg, Christopher Hart, Dave Weich, DC Comics, Drawing Cutting-Edge Comics, Falcon, Fetish Girls, Garden Decor, Globe Pequot, Harriet Pierce, Home Depot, Landscaping with Stone, Lee Miller, Lyons Press, Manga mania, Mike Hejny, Minneapolis-Moline Farm Tractors, Motorbooks, New Router Handbook, Powells.com, Rich Smeby, Schiffer Publishing, Spider-Man, Sterling, Sunset Books, Taschen, The Collector's Guide to Cloth Third Reich Military Headgear, The Faraway Horses, Tina Skinner, Trellises and Arbors, United States Army Shoulder Patches, Watson-Guptill, Western Garden Book, Western Horseman
Women’s Work Poland Gets the Menses, Millás Sizzles Spain, And Hareven Labors for Love in Israel Serotonin levels are plunging this month all over Poland, where the delightfully demented author Janusz Wisniewski comes down with Tense Syndromes (otherwise translated as Premenstrual Syndrome; the original title was Menstruation, but the Warsaw publisher deemed it “too shocking”),…Continue Reading
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Tagged A.B. Yehoshua, Adventures of Puffy the Bear, Allison & Busby, Argon, Aschehoug, Bengt Nordin, Bjorn Helleberg, Close to Paradise, Dalia Bilu, De Geus, Espasa, Esthi Kunz, Funny Fanny, Gail Hareven, Garcia Marquez, Gavriela Avigur-Rotem, Gyldendal, Heatwave and Crazy Birds, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, Janusz Wisniewski, Joanna Chmielewska, Juan Jose Millas, Laffont, Loneliness on the Net, Lord of the Flies, My Dead Husband, My True Love, Nadal Prize, Primavera Prize, Sapir Prize, Scholastic, Suhrkamp, Tadeusz Lewandowski, Tense Syndromes, The Great Diamond, The Liberating Bride, This Was Solitude, Thomas Mann, Thomas Qvortrup, Two Women in Prague, Utopia, William Golding
When First Lady Laura Bush kicks off the 2nd National Book Festival on Saturday, October 12, on the Capitol’s West Lawn, she’ll be lending the White House imprimatur to the cause of reading in more ways than one. Besides bringing the likes of Ha Jin, Dava Sobel, Jules Feiffer, and Billy Collins, among some 70…Continue Reading
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Tagged Anderson News, Association of American Publishers, Billy Collins, Dava Sobel, Drew Carey, Fred Meyer, Fry's, get Caught Reading, Ha Jin, Jules Feiffer, Kathryn Blough, Kroger, Laura Bush, Library of Congress, Mayor Bloomberg, McDonald's, National Book Festival, Pat Schroeder, Rosie O'Donnell, Spider-Man, The New York Center for the Book, Whoopi Goldberg
Once again, this year’s 99 highflying Columbia Publishing Course graduates have put their Palm Pilots on warp speed and wowed us with their über-achieving résumés. As in years past, we offer you a taste of publishing’s next generation in the composite biographical sketch below (all content has been taken from actual student biographies). Columbia’s New…Continue Reading
The Warsaw Book Fair has evolved from a business-only mixer to what sponsors are now billing as an east-meets-west literary lotusland. Brenda Segel, VP Director of Subsidiary Rights for HarperCollins, contributes to this report from the front lines. As a first-time visitor to the Warsaw Book Fair, I found myself very pleasantly surprised. This busy,…Continue Reading
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Tagged Ars Polona, Eminem, Empik, HarperCollins Morrow, Isabel Allende, Janusz Folger, John Gray, Joyce Carol Oates, Kwadro, Lara Allen, Liber, Marilyn Manson, Moscow International Book Fair, Non/fiction Book Fair, Rebecca Wells, Swiatowid, Wally Lamb, Warsaw Book Fair, William Kowalski
Today’s $50 Lifestyle Books Just Might Be Worth Every Penny Early this year, the illustrated book market was declared dead, or at least mutilated (blame the blood-curdling discount battle between Könemann and Taschen), with high-end art houses such as Abrams, Abbeville, and Rizzoli said to be wallowing hip-deep in a glut of coffee-table books. Just…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Return to Cooking, Abbeville, Abradale, Abrams, AOL TW, Artisan, Barnes & Noble, Black & Decker, book sales, BookScan, Borders, Briggs & Stratton, Bruce Harris, Bulfinch Press, Chain Sales Marketing, Christopher Capen, Claekson Potter, Creative Publishing, Day in the Life of America, DK, Earth From Above, Eric Ripert, Fog City Press, French Laundry Cookbook, HarperCollins, Harvey Markowitz, Healthy 1-2-3, Jill Cohen, Karen Kreiger, Konemann, Lauren Shakely, Laurie Rippon, Len Riggio, Mel Shapiro, Popular Mechanics, Quarto, QVC, Rizzoli, Rozanne Gold, Simon & Schuster, Singer, Small Engine Care and Repair, Steve Tager, Stewart Tabori & Chang, Taschen, Tehabi Books, Terry Newell, The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair, The New American Cheese, Tim Street-Porter, Tropical Houses, Wal-Mart, Weldon Owen, Williams Sonoma Savoring, Workman
There may have been no mega-hit property at this year’s Licensing 2002 International show — notwithstanding the media hootenanny over Lemony Snicket — but even in this somewhat gun-shy climate, which saw licensing industry retail sales dip 4% last year, deals were being dialed up at the Javits Center on June 11-13. First in line,…Continue Reading
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Tagged Bally's, Basic Solutions, Beer for Dummies, Big Tent Entertainment, Casper, Classic Media, Computer Setup, Dating for Dummies, Dick Bruna, Discovery Channel, Dr. Seuss, FDNY, Gemini Industries, Golden Books, Golf for Dummies, Gund, Home Networking, Home Theatre Hookups, Hungry Minds, Ian Falconer, John Hislop, Kodansha, Lassie, Licensing 2002 International, Marc Mikulick, Mercis, Miffy, Olivia, Peaceable Kingdom, Pregnancy for Dummies, Public Speaking for Dummies, Random House, Rich Collins, Sandy Jaffe, Sex for Dummies, Sony, Stephen Weitzen, Table Talk, The BookSource, Thomas the Tank Engine, Underdog, United Media, Wine for Dummies, Winning for Dummies, Yoga for Dummies
Sketches of Spain Gala’s Jungle of Love and Aldecoa’s Enigma, Plus Holst’s Uppity Danish Women At the colossal Fnac megastore in Barcelona last month, you had to bushwhack your way past bales of Jean Auel’s The Shelters of Stone — the ubiquitously promoted tome could be had in no less than four separate editions: Catalan,…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Happy Woman, A Teacher's Story, Agneta Markas, Ake Edwardson, Antonio Gala, Autumn Sonata, Bertelsmann, Bonniers, Caroline Eliacheff, Creative Times, Cristina Mora, Cryptonomicon, Econ/List/Ullstein, Edith Wharton, Einaudi, Erik Juul Clausen, Espadana, Esthi Kunz, Fnac, French Publishers' Agency, Guests in the Garden, Gyldendal, Hanne-Vibeke Holst, Hanserik Tonnheim, Harlan Coben, Heaven Is a Place on Earth, High Heels, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Auel, Josefina Aldecoa, Lattes, Livanis, Madame Bovary, Malmo, Monique DiDonna, Mothers-Daughters: A Three-Way Relationship, Nathalie Heinich, Neal Stephenson, No Se Lo Digas a Nadie, Norstedts, Pedro Almodovar, Planeta, Planeta Prize, Pomegranate Seed, Ray-Gude Mertin, RCS, Real Life, Tell No One, The Crimson Manuscript, The Enigma, The Healer, The Shelters of Stone, Tiden, Turkish Passion
The DMD Marketing Conference & Expo, officially a “forum of new ideas and technological advances” that proffers “information in ecommerce, technology, media, database, and creative services,” pulled a surprisingly large group of attendees to the Javits Center during its direct marketing mêlée on June 17-19, many of whom were lured by the promise of hearing…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, AOL, Barnes & Noble, BN.com, Bookspan, Brooks Brothers, Direct Marketing Association, DMD, Herschel Gordon Lewis, Jungle Group, Rudy Giuliani, Scholastic, Time-Life Books
Move over, Rushdie. That’s the message emanating from bustling Hyderabad, India, anyway, where a gang of literati recently met to ponder the bullish future of publishing in this nation that boasts an apparently fast-growing appetite for English-language books. Though only 2% of its population is capable of reading and writing in English, those 18 million…Continue Reading
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Tagged Crossword, Cyrus Kheradi, David Davidar, East West Books, Fabmart, Fountainhead, India Book Distributors, India Book House, K.E. Padmanabhan, Landmark, Landmark E-Tail, Penguin Books India, Random House, Rediffusion, Rupa and Company, Sandra Friedman, Simon & Schuster, TBI, Westland
