Saturday, October 19, 2013

News from PW

A Home Run for 'Hades' 

The House of Hades, the newest book in Rick Riordan’s bestselling Heroes of Olympus series, sold almost 350,000 print copies in its first week on sale at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Approximately 249,000 copies were sold through BookScan’s retail and club channel, an increase of 26% over the 198,000 copies that The Mark of Athena sold when it made its debut in 2012. more »


Munro Declines Invite to Nobel Ceremony
The Swedish Academy says Nobel literature prize winner Alice Munro won't travel to Stockholm to collect her award because of poor health

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