Publisher News

New appointments made to Penguin Random House’s sales team; Two clients join Ingram Publisher Services; Grammy win for Stephen Colbert and Hachette Audio

NBCC awards finalists announced; Holiday sales numbers as predicted; IBM says e-commerce will lose to bricks-and-mortar; S&S to launch Simon 451 imprint; Deadline approaching for NBF’s Innovations in Reading Prize; Macmillan to distribute Guinness World Records; Laurie Muchnick named fiction editor at Kirkus

IndieReader has launched the IndieReader In-Store program, which will offer self-published titles as part of a branded collection aimed at the 37,000 book industry professionals using Edelweiss.

Winter Institute attendees who are putting their travel plans in place should be sure to make appointments to meet with representatives of ABA’s affiliated business solution partners, POS vendors, and other service providers that match their stores’ needs.

ABA and NetGalley have partnered to launch a Digital White Box program that will allow publishers to introduce new titles exclusively to ABA members via NetGalley. The program will enable more individual booksellers to read new titles earlier from a diverse group of publishers and genres.

Caldecott, Newbery announcements to be webcast on January 27; Zola Books acquires Bookish; Oregon Book Awards finalists announced; Study looks at showrooming practices

Pennsylvania House pushes Congress toward e-fairness; More consumers to finish holiday shopping online; National Book Foundation calls for Innovations in Reading nominations; Candlewick reaches out to teens through E-Volt Tumblr; Making Information Pay conference to co-locate with Digital Publishing Forum at BEA

Hachette Book Group is offering independent bookstores signed bookplates from author and director J.J. Abrams, whose new book, S., hit shelves on October 29 and came in at #7 on this week’s national Indie Bestseller List for fiction.

Print books still preferred by readers; Court rejects booksellers’ DRM suit against Amazon, publishers; Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selects The Invention of Wings; Amazon to collect sales tax in Tennessee and Nevada; Charles Taylor Prize renamed, award added; Changes in Ingram Publisher Services’ leadership

ABA, BEA team with Toy Industry Association; Mystery Writers of America names Crais, Hart as Grand Masters; Sales staff changes at Penguin Random House; Legislation to limit book discounts faces opposition in Quebec

AAUP’s Books for Understanding looks at JFK; Columbia University Press welcomes three distribution clients; Simon & Schuster to distribute for Victory Belt Publishing

NCAC honors Sherman Alexie; Miami Book Fair International’s 30th anniversary celebration underway; U.S. Postal Service moves into Staples stores; The Everything Store named Business Book of the Year; University Press of New England launches ForeEdge; U.S. Department of Labor asks for book recommendations; Hachette U.K. joins with NetGalley; Staff changes at Penguin Random House; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt signs with Ingram’s MyiLibrary; HarperCollins teams with Midwest Tape for on-demand audio; Book industry remains strong in Argentina

Judge dismisses Google e-book scanning case; PEN report shows authors self-censoring due to surveillance; World Book Night donates to Operation Gratitude; Survey shows early holiday shopping among Americans; SCBWI creates The Spark Award; Gaiman’s Neverwhere returned to classrooms; Frommer’s returns due to Wiley by December 15; Ingram Publisher Services to distribute for Indiana University Press

This week, ABA announced the winners of 55 scholarships to the 2014 Winter Institute in Seattle. Forty-nine of the scholarships have been awarded to booksellers by the Winter Institute’s publisher sponsors.

To help spread the Shop Local message this holiday season, Simon & Schuster has created a video featuring well-known authors promoting the pleasures, and importance, of shopping at independent bookstores.