Tuesday, March 03, 2015

The Roundup with PW

Shortlist Announced for PW's 2015 Bookstore of the Year
Books & Books, Left Bank Books, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Powell’s Books, and Village Books made the cut for this year's Bookstore Award. more »
The State of Digital Cookbook Innovation, Spring 2015
Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything app was the first—and arguably most successful—cookbook app, released in 2010, the same year as the iPad, and hailed by Apple in 2013 as “groundbreaking.” Today, though, the implication of digital innovation on the cookbook market is still a matter of vehemently held opinion. more »

Paula Deen Inks Deal with Hachette
Celebrity chef Paula Deen--who was dropped, amid scandal, by Random House in 2013--will release titles published by her one-year old Paula Deen Ventures label through Hachette Book Group, which will handle print and digital sales and distribution. more »




Open Road, Permanent Press Partner
Open Road Integrated Media has partnered with the Permanent Press to digitally produce, market, and distribute more than 200 titles published between 1978 and 2007. »

RH Signs Up Brokaw for Memoir
Random House is set to publish a memoir by former NBC 'Nightly News' anchor Tom Brokaw, 'A Lucky Life Interrupted,' based on a journal he kept after being diagnosed with an incurable but treatable blood cancer. The book will go on sale May 12, 2015. »


Veronica Roth Working on New Series: The 'Divergent' author is set to write a new two-book series, HarperCollins Children's Books told The Associated Press on Monday. The books currently are untitled, with the first one expected in 2017 and the next in 2018.

Knausgaard Talks to 'The Guardian': The author of the bestselling 'My Struggle' tells the paper that "writing is a way of getting rid of shame."

Marina Abramovic Memoir in 2016: Crown Archetype will publish the performance artist's memoir in the fall of 2016, to coincide with the her 70th birthday.

The Art of Agenting: Literary agent Chris Parris-Lamb on gatekeeping, the truth behind big advances, and why Amazon neglects the “humanity to good books.”

Writers You Should be Reading: Buzzfeed has 22 contemporary authors that are not to be missed.


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