Marvel Comics in partnership with Del Rey Books, will be releasing original English language Manga titles featuring Wolverine and the X-Men.
The books are expected to have a 2009 release, and will not be a part of the regular X-Men continuity. According to the press release, the stories will have familiar elements, but will take the characters in radical new directions.
Categories: buzz, SciFi & Fantasy, Publishing News
WalMart Canada has made a big deal of the fact that they are going to sell books at US prices. Big gesture, small cost. They are of course a general merchandiser, so books are a sliver of their sales. And their head office and supply systems are in the US, so they can readily source their inventory where the real price really is American.
No such luck for Canadian booksellers. Pretty much all we sell is books, and pretty much everything we buy is in Canada.
Categories: Discussions, Store News, Publishing News
2007 Giller Finalists See Average Sales Increase of Almost 400%
The five finalists for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize have seen an average sales increase of 388% in the first week after the shortlist was announced. In the week ending October 14, 2007, A Secret Between Us by saw the highest percent increase at 1200%, followed by Effigy by with 564%. Divisadero by and The Assassin’s Song by , already selling at a robust rate before the shortlist announcement, increased by 83% and 70% respectively, while ’s Late Nights on Air has seen a 22% bump in sales.
Categories: Awards, buzz, Publishing News
The 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlists were announced Thursday afternoon at news conferences in both Regina and Saskatoon. The list of titles is once again a testament to the great quality and variety of writing produced in the province today.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Publishing News
Remember the James Frey fiasco?
The Overlawyered website reports the following:
Categories: Publishing NewsFor $800,000, one could buy a nice house, two thousand iPhones, about five days' worth of Alex Rodriguez's contract, or 1,700 hours of class action lawyers producing absolutely nothing of any value to anybody.
In January 2006, The Smoking Gun reported that James Frey's A Million Little Pieces memoir had significant inaccuracies. After a few days of denial, Frey admitted that the book was inaccurate. The publisher, Random House, immediately posted a statement to that effect on its website and offered a refund to anybody who was upset. Approximately 12 seconds later, hordes of trial lawyers copied down the allegations from The Smoking Gun's website and rushed to the courthouse to file "consumer fraud" class action lawsuits against Frey and Random House. They demanded... that Random House post a disclaimer and give refunds to anybody who was upset. In a sane world, those lawyers would have been sanctioned for filing a frivolous lawsuit, and then sanctioned again for wasting everyone's time by asking for a remedy that had already been achieved.
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