Publishers Lunch
Vintage is reprinting a total of 100,000
copies across their backlist of 14 story collections by Nobel laureate Alice Munro. Random
House Canada ceo Brad Martin told
the Globe and Mail, "As far as we know, we have stock of all of
Alice's active titles," though booksellers were light on copies and ran
out quickly. Indigo placed "nice, substantial orders" for fresh
inventory. You can read (or hear) Munro's short phone call interview with the
prize organizers here.
She said in a written statement Thursday:
"This is so surprising and wonderful.
I am dazed by all the attention and affection that has been coming my way this
morning. It is such an honor to receive this wonderful recognition from the
Nobel Committee and I send them my thanks.
"When I began writing there was a very
small community of Canadian writers and little attention was paid by the world.
Now Canadian writers are read, admired and respected around the globe. I'm so
thrilled to be chosen as this year's Nobel Prize for Literature recipient. I
hope it fosters further interest in all Canadian writers. I also hope that this
brings further recognition to the short story form."
Bloomsbury executive Richard Charkin was
elected vice president of International Publishers Association (IPA) for a one-year
term, after which he will become president, succeeding Youngsuk
"Y.S." Chi. Charkin says in the announcement: "Publishing is an
honourable business. In essence, we are here to serve writers, illustrators and
creative people by editing, designing, producing, promoting, selling, and
collecting money on their behalf for their ideas. Authors are at the heart of
our industry – novelists, poets, dramatists, textbook writers, scientists,
scholars, illustrators – and IPA needs them to support us if we are to continue
to invest securely for the future. "I have been extraordinarily lucky in
my career to have worked in such a great industry with such great people. I am
honoured to repay some of the debt I owe to that industry and to those people.
I am proud to serve the global publishing family." Joining the board along
with Charkin are Eva
Bonnier (Albert Bonnier), Michiel Kolman (Elsevier), Urban Meister
(Cornelsen Schulverlage), and Hugo
Setzer (Manual Moderno).
Lorraine Rath
and Alisha Petro
have both joined Weldon Owen as art directors. Rath was previously art director
at Heyday Books, and Petro held the position of art director at Yoga Journal
and National Geographic. Separately, as part of a restructuring at Weldon Owen,
Kelly Booth
has been promoted to creative director, and Roger Shaw has acquired the food and
drink list in his role as vp, Publisher and now oversees their entire list.
Though it was announced months ago, Harry
Potter fan sites have just noticed that the US Postal Service plans
to release a Harry
Potter stamp in November.
Jay Conrad Levinson, author of dozens of books on
Guerilla Marketing, died Thursday. He was 80. We have not seen a formal
obituary, but sometime co-author and friend Seth Godin salutes Levinson for
helping to "invent the idea of the modern marketing book" but also
for "living a generous life."
It seems a bit childish, really, that the
London Book Fair keeps dispatching press releases around the Frankfurt event.
The latest announce Sun-mi
Hwang as their "market focus author of the day" at
LBF next April, where Korea will be the market focus nation. And because trade
awards are such a good business in the UK, the fair is pairing with the UK's
Publishers Association to provide 12 different awards under the banner of the London Book Fair International Book
Industry Excellence Awards.
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