Thursday, January 22, 2015

The Roundup with PW


Supercomputer Watson Has Cookbook Coming
The Institute of Culinary Education has teamed up with IBM to create a cookbook with recipes from Watson, the tech company's cognitive computing system. more »
Four Questions for...Author Tiphanie Yanique
Last month Tiphanie Yanique was awarded the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize for 'Land of Love and Drowning.' We caught up with Yanique to chat about winning the prize, representing the Virgin Islands in her fiction, and what she's working on now. more »





iBooks Bestseller: ‘Girl on the Train’ Hits #3
'The Girl on the Train,' Paula Hawkins’s debut novel, came in at #3 on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list, for the week ended January 19. Chris Kyle’s memoir, 'American Sniper' (adapted into a film starring Bradley Cooper, who recently nabbed an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Kyle), held firm at #1. more » »

Offill Wins Charlotte Zolotow Award for 'Sparky!'
'Sparky!', written by Jenny Offill and illustrated by Chris Appelhans, is the winner of the 18th annual Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book. more » »



'Gone Girl' Tops at Sainsbury's in 2014
Gillian Flynn's 'Gone Girl' was the most searched for and the most purchased book of 2014 according to new research from eBooks by Sainsbury’s, the e-book division of the U.K. grocery chain, which compiled lists of the most popular e-books and authors last year. »

Distribution: PRH Signs America's Test Kitchen
Penguin Random House Publisher Services has signed a multi-year sales and distribution agreement with America’s Test Kitchen, which is currently self-distributed in the general book trade. The deal, covering physical and digital cookbooks worldwide, will begin September 2015. »

Guanamo Detainee Turned Author
: On Tuesday, the family of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, used the publication of his book 'Guantánamo Diary,' the first and, so far, the only account of life at the American military prison written by someone still detained, to campaign for his release. 

Attempts to Block Book Fuels Intrigue: Efforts by India's Congress party to block the publication of a "dramatized" biography of its president Sonia Gandhi only stoked interest in the book, said author Javier Moro.

'Charlie Hebdo' Sells Out in New York: The first issue of the satirical French magazine printed since the Paris attacks finally arrived in the United States Tuesday, and it took just one hour to sell out at a Manhattan bookstore.

Dutch Resale Site to Close: Dutch e-book resale site Tom Kabinet has to close because, at least at the moment, it cannot prove that all the books offered for sale on the site have been legally obtained, an Amsterdam court ruled Tuesday.

The Real Science of Science Fiction: The best science fiction draws on genuinely scholarly research, and the scholars are themselves inspired by the creative writers’ speculation.

Children's Fiction Bestseller List
'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul' by Jeff Kinney is the #1 title on PW's children's frontlist fiction bestseller list. See the full list » »





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