Publisher News

Ingram offers extended terms on calendars; Google to buy Frommer’s travel guides; Gen Y takes lead in book buying; NAIPR Basic goes live; WNBA launches annual writing contest; Thurber and SCIBA award finalists announced

Ingram offers new color POD option; NPR reveals top 100 teen books

HarperCollins completes acquisition of Thomas Nelson; Google’s Nexus 7 tablet gets strong reviews; European e-book growth slow but inevitable

Magers & Quinn is serving as the sole local distributor of bulk sales to area nonprofits for Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference, a self-published title by John Capecci and Timothy Cage.

Google unveils Nexus 7 tablet; News Corp to pursue split; Perseus to phase out Vanguard imprint

Penguin and Macmillan file responses to DOJ lawsuit; IPG and Amazon come to terms; Movement aims to save University of Missouri Press; Skip Prichard to leave Ingram; Chase and Living Social sponsor small business grants; OverDrive introduces browser-based e-book reader; Madeline Miller wins Orange Prize

In response to enthusiastic bookseller support, Abrams has increased the number of assortments in its Fall 2012 The Art of Selling Books promotion to 25.

Apple calls DOJ case “fundamentally flawed”; NRF launches 60-day sales tax fairness campaign; Waterstones to sell Kindles; Center for Fiction benefit to feature Richard Ford and Joyce Carol Oates; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt files for bankruptcy

Little, Brown and Company is marking its 175th anniversary with special events throughout the year and a backlist offer for independent booksellers.

New distribution arrangements for Cambridge University Press and The World Almanac; the winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Awards and The Story Prize; the Lammy finalists

To celebrate the 70^th anniversary of The Boxcar Children Mysteries series, Albert Whitman & Company is sponsoring The Boxcar Children Contest, open to all ABA member stores.

Justice Department to sue over e-book pricing; Google creates a one-stop shop for digital content; Scholastic launches beta version e-reading app; Lulu.com and NACS Media Solutions in self-publishing partnership; OverDrive acquires Australian e-book company

USA Today analysis finds tax-free Internet sales have big impact; E-book consumers increasingly turn to apps and online retailers; Harper campaign celebrates Maisie Month; Perseus and NBN agree to terms with Amazon; Open Road partners with Ingram to print and distribute e-riginals; NACS and Amazon settle suit over advertising claims; OverDrive to bring Potter e-books to libraries

Next Thursday, March 1, is the last day for indie booksellers to sign up for the July celebration of “Find Waldo Local,” a community-wide Shop Local promotion, co-sponsored by Candlewick Press and ABA.

On February 13, Algonquin kicked off “Lucky 7,” a monthly e-book promotion offering seven backlist titles in e-book format for seven days for $1.99 each. This month’s theme is “Author Crush.”