BTW News Briefs

Binc Welcomes New Board Members

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc) announced the addition of three new members to its 14-member board this week. The nonprofit organization dedicated to providing charitable programs to assist the bookselling community welcomed:

• Matthew Norcross, ABA Board member and co-owner of McLean & Eakin Booksellers in Petoskey, Michigan
• Matthew Gildea of Joseph-Beth Booksellers and formerly of Borders and Hastings Entertainment
• Lori Tucker-Sullivan, executive director of the Independent Booksellers Consortium, Inc., and former marketing director for Little Professor Bookstores

The members began serving their terms earlier this year.

Ingram Publisher Services Adds Two New Clients

Ingram Publisher Services has added APL Publishing and Maiden Lane Press to its list of clients.

APL Publishing will release the second edition of Adam Perry Lang’s bestselling cookbook, Serious Barbecue on August 12. Ingram Publisher Services is handling sales and distribution of the new title in the U.S. and Canada, and will support the publisher with Ingram’s CoreSource® platform for e-book distribution. 

Maiden Lane Press, a full service imprint of Marly Rusoff & Associates literary agency, publishes books in all formats when special opportunities arise. Maiden Lane Press will launch its work with Ingram Publisher Services with its newest title, Moonrise by Cassandra King. Ingram is currently handling sales distribution for the company in the U.S. and Canada, and is supporting the publisher with Ingram’s CoreSource platform for e-book distribution. 

Miller Names Imprint Flatiron Books

Bob Miller, who joined Macmillan in early July, has named his new imprint Flatiron Books, after the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, which is home to Macmillan and is where he spent his first eight years in the book business.

Miller has already signed three books, according to the New York Times, including K: Into the Pathless Land, a fictionalized work by Mark Frost about the late spiritual writer J. Krishnamurti.

Rowling Accepts Charitable Donation for Identity Leak

J.K. Rowling has accepted an apology and a charitable donation from the law firm that revealed she had written The Cuckoo’s Calling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Time magazine reported.

The U.K. law firm Russells had acknowledged that one of its partners let the information about Galbraith’s identity slip to his wife’s best friend, who tweeted it to a Sunday Times columnist.

Rowling sued the lawyer and the friend over the betrayal of her confidences.

Russells agreed to reimburse Rowling’s legal costs and to make a substantial donation to The Soldiers’ Charity, which helps former military personnel and their families. The hero of The Cuckoo’s Calling is a veteran who lost a leg in Afghanistan. Rowling is donating all royalties from the book for the next three years to the charity.