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'Inferno' Has Huge Debut, But Below 'The Lost Symbol'
Dan Brown's Inferno posted a massive debut, selling 369,000 copies at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. But how did it compare to the first week sales of his last novel?
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Orbit Announces Moves for Holman, Clarke
Tim Holman, SVP and publisher of the Orbit division at Hachette Book Group in the U.S. and the Orbit imprint of Little, Brown Book Group in the U.K., will be returning to the U.K. with his family later this year. Anne Clarke, currently editorial director of Orbit in the U.K., will relocate from London to New York and take up the role of deputy publisher, reporting to Holman.
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Review: 'Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography--from Grantham to the Falklands' by Charles Moore
PW's review of Moore's "richly detailed narrative" of Thatcher's life benefits from "prickly interviews" and ultimately portrays a "multidimensional, conflicted figure."
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Marysue Rucci: Moving Beyond ‘Little Bee’
Marysue Rucci said the moment that changed her career came in 1996. At the time she worked for Lisa Drew Books, a now-defunct imprint of Scribner, as an assistant.
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Sookie Stackhouse, Duck Dynasty Top Bestseller List
Charlaine Harris's last Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead Ever After, took #1 on Nielsen BookScan, selling 85,00 copies in the week ending May 12.
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MPS Acquires Element, Adds K-12 Capability
MPS Limited has reached an agreement to acquire Element, a U.S.-based, full-service editorial, design, and production service provider to the K-12 publishing market.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Inferno' Still Hot
Dan Brown's Inferno is, unsurprisingly, holding its #1 spot on both the print and e-book bestseller lists on Amazon, as of May 15.
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Broadway Books Gets New Logo
Crown Publishers, has unveiled a new logo for its paperback unit, Broadway Books.
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Attention, Publishers: Book Industry Survey Requests Data
The Book Industry Environmental Council has launched surveys for publishers, printers and paper manufacturers involved in the U.S. book industry. The surveys will remain open until June 19th and ask questions that will allow for continued tracking of the progress the book industry has made towards reducing its environmental footprint. Click through to participate.
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Tantor Out with 'Behind the Candelabra' in Three Formats
Tantor Media did an initial first printing of 20,000 copies for Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace. The book is the basis for the May 26 HBO movie Behind the Candelabra and Tantor director of rights and acquisitions Ron Formica acquired print, e-book and audio rights after discovering the book had been out-of-print.
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