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Hachette Bets Big on Orbit SF
This is excellent news for SF lovers. Orbit has a great UK list.
Hachette Shooting for the Stars with Orbit - 5/31/2006 - Publishers Weekly
Hoping to duplicate the success enjoyed by its U.K. sister company in the science fiction and fantasy fields, Hachette Book Group USA will launch Orbit in 2007 under the direction of Tim Holman, publishing director of Little, Brown Book Group’s Orbit imprint. Orbit will become part of Little, Brown and plans call for a list of 40 titles within three years. “We want to have a significant program really fast,” said LB publisher Michael Pietsch.Although Holman will move to New York, he will continue to direct Orbit’s U.K. program and head the expansion of the imprint into Australia. The directive to make Orbit an international brand, said Pietsch, came from Hachette Books CEO David Young. “Science fiction is one of the most widely read genres worldwide. We see a great opportunity internationally,” noted Pietsch. With its expansion into the U.S. and Australia, Orbit will “acquire rights for as large a territory as possible,” he said. Although he acknowledged that there is lots of competition in the field, the ultimate goal, Pietsch said, “is to build the number one science fiction imprint in the world.”
Boing Boing jumping to conclusions? Lifespan of best-sellers falls 6/7ths in 40 years
Boing Boing: Lifespan of best-sellers falls 6/7ths in 40 years
Print-on-demand publisher Lulu.com has done a study on the lifespan of best-sellers and concluded that the number of weeks a book stays on the bestseller list has fallen to one-seventh of the average 40 years ago. This means that more books are becoming best-sellers, but that best-sellerdom means less in terms of revenue expectations. It’s a pretty long-tail-ish conclusion: success is a lot more niche and small-s than it was back in the heyday of blockbusters.
But wait a minute. Does that sound right? This analysis is based solely on weeks on the best seller list, not unit sales. Color me skeptical.
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The Da Vinci Code Movie Photos - Da Vinci Code Photos, Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou
The Da Vinci Code Movie Photos - Da Vinci Code Photos, Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou
Gallery of photos from the Columbia Pictures movie “The Da Vinci Code” featuring photos of Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Paul Bettany, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina and Jean Reno. (Photos © Columbia Pictures)
Harry Potter Book 7 Trends in Google & Technorati
English posts that contain "harry Potter Book 7" per day for the last 30 days.
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360 days from May 2005 - May 2006:
Actual Long Tail Data Is Underwhelming
Inside Google Book Search: New Proof of (Long Tail) Concept
What’s the long tail theory? The idea in the context of book publishing is that online exposure has the potential to capture what might otherwise be lost book sales.
As I observed previously, actual long tail data presented at this Book Industry Study Group conference is rather underwhelming. In most markets the long tail appears to amount to around 25% of total revenue. Significant, to be sure, but the stuff of operating efficiencies, not market revolutions.
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