Larry Kirshbaum shares many more details on how Amazon Publishing will work The new head of Amazon's publishing arm, veteran publisher and more recently agent Larry Kirschbaum expresses frank views about their approach.
Links of the week April 23 2012 (17)
Our new feature links to interesting blogs or articles posted online, which will help keep you up to date with what's going on in the book world:
30 April 2012
Last week, Amazon New York publisher Larry Kirshbaum %u2014 the publishing industry veteran hired to oversee the launch of the NY imprint's first list this fall -- sat down for an interview with writer and former Random House
Lack Of Pulitzer Didn’t Hurt Book Sales Many American commentators and author were furious when the Pulitzer committee decided that none of the fiction titles listed by the judges were good enough, but overall sales still look good and have benefited from the controversy.
Publishers Beware, more creative destruction on the way
Veteran commentator Martin Levin on why publishing undergoes 'creative destruction', why this is a good thing and why Amazon might buy a trade (general) publisher.
23 April 2012
Love, Sex & Romance
In a move to build community and learn more about its customers, American publisher Sourcebooks is launching a romance e-book club.
In a move to build community and learn more about its customers, mid-sized publisher Sourcebooks is launching a romance e-book club that gives members e-books, discounts and access to online parties and live events for $9.99 per month for six months.
Trending: clash of the book titles
What's worse than seeing that someone else has come up with the same book title as yours? But there's no copyright in titles, as John Walsh points out.
In 2007, the design critic Stephen Bayley published a book written with the CEO of The Conran Group, Roger Mavity. It told readers how to put zip and excitement into their business dealings and was wittily entitled Life's a Pitch. It sold 50,000 copies. Five years later, the co-authors felt understandably put-out when they discovered, in the Penguin catalogue, that in May 2012, Philip Delves Broughton will publish a guide to selling techniques around the world, entitled Life's a Pitch.