Study: Oprah's Picks Good for Publishers
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A new study confirms what many already knew: Oprah Winfrey's book endorsements are good as gold to publishers.
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Nadine Gordimer and her literary A-list have created a new anthology whose profits will go to a southern African organization that helps people with AIDS and H.I.V.
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Practice makes perfect. Last year, the judges of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) book award were feeling their way as they narrowed a list of 17 contenders down to a shortlist of six. This year, the process was quicker and the seven-strong panel - unchanged since the session last November that selected Thomas Friedman's paean to globalisation, The World is Flat, as the inaugural winner of the &pound;30,000 ($56,000) prize - came to it with a clearer sense of the kind of book that deserves to take the laurels next month.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Random House Inc. has made excerpts from books by Toni Morrison, Calvin Trillin and thousands of others available online as publishers continue their push to sell more books through the Internet.
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Suzy Welch, a former editor of the Harvard Business Review and the wife of John F. Welch Jr., the former chief executive of General Electric, has agreed to sell the rights to her book â10-10-10â to Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A person involved in the negotiations said that Scribner paid Ms. Welch a price in the seven figures for world and audio rights to the book. Based on an article Ms. Welch wrote for O, the Oprah Magazine, in 2006, the book offers strategies for making decisions in which people think about what the consequences of a decision will be in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years. Robert Barnett, a Washington lawyer, negotiated the deal on behalf of Ms. Welch. Nan Graham, editor in chief of Scribner, will edit the book with Samantha Martin. Ms. Welch, who wrote the best-selling âWinningâ with Mr. Welch, said she originally thought there wasnât a book beyond the article. But, she said, âI began to encounter this hunger for people who were using it to play out its nuances.â She said the book would include examples from her own life as well as others she has observed using the â10-10-10â process. Susan Moldow, publisher of Scribner, said that although Ms. Welchâs article might seem sufficient for those who wanted to know about the strategy, Ms. Moldow believed the book would sell well. âThe Scarsdale Diet fit on a Xerox-ed sheet that you could fit on the front of a refrigerator,â Ms. Moldow said. âAnd it sold millions and millions of copies. Itâs often true that when something strikes an immediate âAha!,â you really want to have time to meditate on it and try to get to know more about it.â.
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The magazines stack up, unread, on your coffee table: the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair. You subscribe to them but don't have time to read them. So there they sit, a glossy pile of guilt.
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Publishers are hoping that online growth will compensate for some of the decline from the print side.
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Influential television talk show host Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday chose a spiritual self-help book, "A New Earth" by German native Eckhart Tolle, as her next book club selection.
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As the holiday season approaches, book lists fill the entertainment sections of newspapers: fiction and non-fiction, prize winners of all sorts, the ubiquitous coffee-table large-format illustrated tomes, and children's literature. For me, it's always a tempting feast. It's an opportunity to expand my personal library or find a gift for someone special.
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The fashion world's mantra may be "thin is in," but in publishing circles fat is where it's at. While well-established authors of lengthy novels have a built-in fan base, book industry insiders think pop culture and the preference of some readers for long stories as a way to relieve daily stress are feeding the frenzy for big books.
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Oprah Winfrey is the world's most powerful celebrity according to business magazine Forbes.
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Older newsletter recommendations may offer hidden value.
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In a media marketplace heavy on celebrity news, stories are interesting, but pictures reign supreme. Want proof? Just look at the price tags.
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Cooks, gardeners and explorers to the rescue -- celebrity tie-ins from hit TV shows have proved a real gold mine for the British publishing industry.
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It has an avowedly quirky style and sometimes controversial views. Yet as magazines worldwide sigh about poor circulation and scarce advertising revenue, current affairs bible The Economist is set for a major celebration this week.
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Oprah lives by it. Millions are reading it. The latest self-help sensation claims we can change our lives by thinking. But this 'new thought' may just be new marketing.
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Newspapers are easy to love, but the industry's investment outlook isn't so appealing.