09.08.13 | Lisa Campbell - The Bookseller
Simon & Schuster is to release the digital backlist of Martin Cruz Smith, including Gorky Park, for the first time next week.
S&S announced the news while also revealing digital sales at the company had increased 61% year on year in the UK in the second quarter.
The publisher will release Gorky Park digitally on 15th August, along with six other Arkady Renko titles—Polar Star, Red Square, Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs, Stalin’s Ghost and Three Stations—in the run-up to the publication of his new Arkady Renko thriller, Tatiana, due to be published in hardback on 12th November.
Gorky Park was originally published in 1981 and became an international bestseller before it was made into a film. S&S will also be releasing the acclaimed thriller in paperback on 12th September, following the e-book publication.
Cruz Smith’s other standalone titles—Rose, Tokyo Station, Canto for a Gypsy, Stallion Gate, Nightwing and Gypsy in Amber—will also follow digitally and be released on 10th October and in paperback April 2014.
C.e.o. Ian Chapman told The Bookseller that digital sales at S&S UK were up 61% year on year for the second quarter “across the board”. He said: “Like everybody else, we are experimenting with price and we have had many books in the Kindle Daily Deals and the Amazon Summer Sale and Apple has been very supportive. We are looking to do much more with Nook, and Kobo have started to do things right across the board.”
He said children’s picture books was a strong category for the publisher, with sales up 30% year on year, while fiction sales were up 12% in the second quarter, with titles by Philippa Gregory and Richard Madeley proving particularly strong sellers.
Chapman said: “We are selling lots of physical books and continue to outperform the market.”
S&S announced the news while also revealing digital sales at the company had increased 61% year on year in the UK in the second quarter.
The publisher will release Gorky Park digitally on 15th August, along with six other Arkady Renko titles—Polar Star, Red Square, Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs, Stalin’s Ghost and Three Stations—in the run-up to the publication of his new Arkady Renko thriller, Tatiana, due to be published in hardback on 12th November.
Gorky Park was originally published in 1981 and became an international bestseller before it was made into a film. S&S will also be releasing the acclaimed thriller in paperback on 12th September, following the e-book publication.
Cruz Smith’s other standalone titles—Rose, Tokyo Station, Canto for a Gypsy, Stallion Gate, Nightwing and Gypsy in Amber—will also follow digitally and be released on 10th October and in paperback April 2014.
C.e.o. Ian Chapman told The Bookseller that digital sales at S&S UK were up 61% year on year for the second quarter “across the board”. He said: “Like everybody else, we are experimenting with price and we have had many books in the Kindle Daily Deals and the Amazon Summer Sale and Apple has been very supportive. We are looking to do much more with Nook, and Kobo have started to do things right across the board.”
He said children’s picture books was a strong category for the publisher, with sales up 30% year on year, while fiction sales were up 12% in the second quarter, with titles by Philippa Gregory and Richard Madeley proving particularly strong sellers.
Chapman said: “We are selling lots of physical books and continue to outperform the market.”
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