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From News | 16 May 2012

Good week for HarperCollins gets better

HarperCollins won Publisher of the Year at the Bookseller Industry Awards on the evening before discovering that it had achieved its highest share - 12.7% - of the BookScan TCM since 2008.
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Bestsellers [click titles for info]

Foyles St Pancras w/e 13.5.12

  1. Bring up the bodies
  2. Fifty shades of grey
  3. The hunger games
  4. Thinking, fast and slow
  5. The marriage plot
  6. What we talk about when we talk about love
  7. How to change the world
  8. Mockingjay
  9. A street cat named Bob

Foyles Westfield White City 13.5.12

  1. Fifty shades of grey
  2. Bring up the bodies
  3. Mockingjay
  4. Fifty shades darker
  5. Fifty shades freed
  6. What we talk about when we talk about love
  7. The sense of an ending
  8. The whisperer
  9. Mr. Men sports day

Bestsellers [click titles for info]

Foyles Stratford City w/e 13.5.12

  1. Fifty shades of grey
  2. Mockingjay
  3. Catching fire
  4. Bring up the bodies
  5. The hunger games
  6. Where the wild things are
  7. A Game of Thrones (Reissue)
  8. State of wonder
  9. What we talk about when we talk about love
  10. Skagboys

Foyles Bristol w/e 13.5.12

  1. Bring up the bodies
  2. Fifty shades of grey
  3. Banksy myths & legends
  4. A Game of Thrones (Reissue)
  5. Where the wild things are
  6. Pulse
  7. The sense of an ending
  8. Retromania
  9. Snowdrops

Links of the day

  1. Judge cites words of Steve Jobs - "The customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway" - in declining bid to dismiss lawsuit against Apple and agency publishers (Washington Post); CNN links to a video in which Jobs says, of prices on Apple and Amazon: "The prices will be the same. The publishers are actually going to withhold their books from Amazon."
  2. Publishing infographic: how a book is born. (Huffington Post)

Earlier links

  1. Amended complaint against Apple and agency publishers reveals previously redacted edmail from Steve Jobs. (paidContent)
  2. Self-publishing success Hugh Howey has sold film rights to his science fiction series Wool to 20th Century Fox. (Publishers Weekly)
  3. Judgment delivered in key "fair use" trial. (Publishers Weekly)
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