After lengthy speculation and anticipation,
and in advance of announcing its first quarter earnings Tuesday morning, Barnes
& Noble said they will finally launch Nook in the UK in mid-October with an
online
storefront as well as partnerships with "leading UK retailers"
that will be announced "shortly." (Waterstones, of course, was long
expected to be partnering with Nook, but in the end allied with Amazon
instead.)
Nook UK will first sell the company's
Simple Touch and Simple Touch with Glowlight devices, with the tablets
available at an undisclosed point. The unnamed UK partners "are expected
to support the Nook offering there through both established physical and online
channels."
In a statement BN ceo William Lynch said
the company is "proud to be able to offer our top-rated line of Nook
reading devices and our award-winning digital bookstore to the discerning and
highly educated consumers in the UK. We're confident our award-winning
technology, combined with our expansive content – including books, children's
books, magazines, apps, movies and more – will bring UK customers the option
they've been waiting for."
Last year Lynch had told the UK publishing
to "expect an announcement about the Nook going international" by
April 2012, and the company had a presence at the London Book Fair as part of
their negotiations of content contracts with UK publishers. Lynch also
said in BN's most recent earnings call in June that "they plan to be in
several international markets this holiday."
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Macmillan and 21st Century Publishing House
have joined forces on a new children's publishing venture in China, Macmillan Century Consulting &
Service Company Ltd. The new venture will acquire, develop,
introduce and promote children's titles sourced from Macmillan's publishing
companies and imprints around the world, and will be led by 21st Century
Publishing president Zhang
Qiulin and Macmillan managing director for Greater China Charlotte Liu.
"We believe Macmillan Century is in a
unique position at the outset, as it has the advantage of combining Macmillan's
carefully selected children's classics and bestsellers with 21st Century's
strong distribution channels within the Chinese children’s book market,"
Liu said in the announcement. Quilin added: "For 21st Century, this
venture represents a valuable opportunity to broaden our knowledge of
international publishing operations through our cooperation with The Macmillan
Group."
At Fodor's, Siobhan O'Hare has been
promoted to director, content management and publishing technology. In her new
role, effective September 10, O'Hare will oversee the tools and process for
editing and publishing Fodor's content across all channels.
Updating Friday's announcement by Amazon
that THE HUNGER GAMES was the bestselling series of all time on the company's
US website, a spokesperson noted to us this figure only includes paid sales and
" does not take into account borrows from the Kindle Owners’ Lending
Library." In addition, according to Digital Book World, Kindle book sales
of the trilogy outsold print editions by a factor of 3.7:1.
Tor announced last week that Harry Harrison, who
died last Wednesday, had delivered the manuscript to his memoirs two weeks
previously and the company "hope to publish in December."
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