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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to RestructureGalley Cat: Sat November 12 GalleyCat has obtained a memo from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CEO Linda K. Zecher about a majorrestructuring at the conglomerate publisher. Below, you can read the memo. Among the many revelations: the publisher willmerge its Education Group into the company as a whole with Zecher leading the organization. Education Group president Mike Lavelle will depart along with chief financial officer Michael Muldowney. Read More...
30 National Novel Writing Month TipsGalleyCat: Tues November 1 Today is the first day of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), as thousands of writersaround the world try to write a 50,000-word manuscript in one month. National Novel WritingMonth is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing on November 1. The goal is to write a 50,000 word, (approximately 175 page) novel by 11:59:59,November 30. You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster and browse the forums. To help the GalleyCat readers taking this challenge, we will be offering one piece of NaNoWriMoadvice every day for the rest of the month. Last year’s participants counted a collective totalof 2,799,449,947 words. Our first tip is simple: follow our advice from last year! Last year we collected 30 days worthof writing advice for NaNoWriMo writers. You can explore all those writing tips below–tune in tomorrow for some fresh advice. Read More...
Google eBookstore Opens in CanadaPublishers Weekly: Tues November 1 Following launches in the U.S. and U.K., Google’s eBookstore launched in Canada Tuesday at noon. So far, Google has agreements with the Canadian arms of multinational publishers -- Random Houseof Canada, HarperCollins Canada, Penguin Group Canada, Simon & Schuster Canada as well as Canadianhouses such as D&M Publishers, House of Anansi Press, McClelland & Stewart and Dundurn Press. Scott Dougall, director of product management for Google Books, said the time lag since the U.S.launch last December is not particular to Canada. “Google is used to rolling out globally platformsthat are free and available to everyone, but once you start rolling out a platform where you areselling paid goods, there’s a lot more legal requirements to conform to,” he said. “There’s territorial rights, there’s copyright rules, there’s tax rules and tax rules meant that there are legal rules about what we display on the receipts and how we communicate with our users.” Read More...
2011 Folio: Award Winners AnnouncedFolio: Tues November 1 The best in magazine editorial and design honored today in New YorkThe winners of the 2011 FOLIO: Awards, the largest competition for magazines, were announced todayduring a ceremony kicking off the FOLIO: Show in New York City. FOLIO:'s Eddie awards recognize the best in editorial while the Ozzie awards recognize the best in design, chosen from nearly 2,000entries across more than 100 categories.Read More...
Steve Jobs Bio for Kids Due in FebruaryPublishers Weekly: Thur October 27 Macmillan’s Feiwel and Friends will issue what publisher Jean Feiwel describes as "truly an instantbook"on February 14, when it releases Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal.Framed by Jobs’s inspirational 2005 Stanford commencement speech and illustrated with photos, thebiography emphasizes how this late computer pioneer’s life was never predictable: he dropped out ofcollege after a single semester and, at the age of 20, launched Apple in his parents’ garage with his friend Steve Wozniak. Aimed at readers 12-up, the biography has an adult counterpart in Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs, released this week by Simon & Schuster and currently #1 on Amazon. Read More...
SFF Magazine Experiments With Freemium Model On Kindle StoreTeleRead: Tue August 2 The magazine "Fantasy & Science Fiction," which has been around for over 60 years, is tryingout a new way to sell copies: it’s going to start giving away the nonfiction sections, plusone fiction story, from each issue for free through the Kindle Store, while offering a paidsubscription (at $1/month) for the full issue. In some ways, this is sort of like using theKindle Store as an email list marketing tool-get users to sign up for the free stuff, thenremind them regularly that there’s new content for saleRead More...
Facebook Denies Digital Publishing Plans with Latest AcquisitionSilicon Angle: Tue August 2 Facebook’s latest buyout is Push Pop Press, the digital book publisher behind Al Gore’spopular interactive app ‘Our Choice’ launched earlier this year. Does this mean Facebookintends to take its stake in the digital publishing arena?Actually, both parties clarified that the acquisition is not a stepping stone for the750 million-strong social network juggernaut into the field. Push Pop cofounders MikeMatas and Kimon Tsinteris elucidated in a statement:Read More...
Vanity Fair Releasing e-book on News Corp's Rupert MurdochReuters: Fri July 29 Readers can now learn everything they have ever wanted to know about their favorite mediamogul for a mere $4. Vanity Fair has released an e-book on News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch featuring a series of articles that detail various aspects of the media mogul and his empire. "Rupert Murdoch: The Master Mogul of Fleet Street" features 20 articles spread out over sixchapters as chosen by editor Graydon Carter.Read More...
Borders Accepts $215 Million OfferGalleycat: Fri July 1 Borders Group announced last night that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Direct Brands, a portfolio company of Najafi Companie. Under the terms of the agreement, Direct Brands would purchase substantiallyall of Borders’ assets for $215.1 million, as well as assume $220 million of liabilities,subject to the auction and Bankruptcy Court approval.Read More...
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