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By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords
New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:
FICTION
NONFICTION
GRAPHIC BOOKS
To Be Published Week of Feb. 27 to March 5, 2012:
Fiction
Nonfiction
This is just a sample from our picks of the week. Scroll down or click here for the complete list, including ISBNs.
Forthcoming Books of 2012
How did it get to be February already? We’re a bit late starting this, but we’re compiling lists of 2012 book previews. Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.
News of the Week:
Ebook and Publishing Industry News:
Profits at Barnes and Noble are down, but is that because the company is investing in its
Nook as an alternative to Amazon’s Kindle Fire?
Meanwhile, Kindle Fire sales predictions are down, while Office Depot has announced its stores will carry the Nook
Amazon has pulled the Independent Publisher Group’s titles from their Kindle catalog
Are librarians rethinking anger at HarperCollins over 26-circ ebook policy?
One European company has big plansto provide FREE ebooks in America
Publishers getting more aggressive about collecting consumer info
Future of Publishing: Book business to split into three?
A guide to publishers in the library ebook market
Other reading and book headlines:
Reading Rainbow to return as an app?
Insta Genre: Jeremy Lin
Dictionary of American Regional English publishes last volume…50 years after the project was begun!
Professional Development Opportunities:
Big Talk from Small Libraries: FREE online conference (on Tuesday, Feb. 28)
RUSA is looking for volunteers!
Should libraries become local publishers?
Need help managing your social media? Try Cyfe
Advanced Readers’ Advisory online course being offered at Infopeople.org
Spring Mystery Announcements webinar from Library Journal: March 22
Books on Screen
Downton Abbey: What’s on tap for Season 3 (the second season was ratings gold for PBS)
Mario Puzo estate sued over Godfather prequel novel
Final Ender’s Game casting news
Wow: Hunger Games ticket sales beat out those of Twilight: Eclipse
What does GCB stand for?
Awards
Big week for Award news!
Full list of 2012 Academy Award winners
Edward Hoagland wins John Burroughs Medal
Agatha Awards: Nominees
Audie Awards 2012: Nominees
Los Angeles Times 2011 Book Awards: Nominees
Nebula Awards 2011: Nominees announced
PEN/Faulkner Award: Nominees
Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism: Finalists
Diagram Prize (awarded for oddest title): shortlist
Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012
International Association of Culinary Professionals book awards: 2012 Finalists
Authors
Publisher Barney Rosset: Obituary
Journalist, New York Daily News editor Richard Blood: Obituary
Journalist Marie Colvin killed in Syria
Dimitri Nabokov, only son of Vladimir Nabokov, has died at age 77
Czech author Jaroslav Velinskyhas died
Anthony Shadid’s memoir House of Stone to be released early
Gabby Giffords’s husband to write children’s book
Stephen Colbert to write kids’ book
Justin Bieber to publish new book of photos
Bobby Brown already shopping book on Whitney Houston
New adult book from J.K. Rowling
Cormac McCarthy: copy editor?
Who are the most influential authors?
Lists
Vampire Novels (for when you’re done with the Twilight series)
Top ten book sites on Technorati
The 2011 All-Best-Books-Compilation analysis: Young Adult; and Literary Fiction
Lighthearted Links of the Week
