The Bookseller has announced the winner of this year’s Oddest Book Title of the Year prize. The oddest book title for this year is The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-miligram Containers of Fromage Frais by Professor Philip M. Parker (Icon Group International). The oddly titled book can be purchased here on Amazon.com for a mere $795.
Here’s the complete list of the odd title finalists.
- The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-miligram Containers of Fromage Frais
- Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy L Cheney and Robert M Seyfarth (University of Chicago Press)
- Curbside Consultation of the Colon by Brooks D Cash
- Strip and Knit with Style by Mark Hordyszynski (C&T)
- The Large Sieve and its Applications by Emmanuel Kowalski (Cambridge University Press)
- Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring by Lietai Yang (Woodhead).
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Barnes and Noble executives are taking
a freeze in pay. Top execs won’t be getting their normal raises for the current fiscal year, which ends in January, 2010.
The freeze was made at the recommendation of management and approved by the compensation committee of the board of directors. The execs will still be entitled to collect bonuses if performance targets are hit. The freeze applies to chairman Len Riggio; vice chairman and CEO Steve Riggio; COO Mitch Klipper; CFO Joseph Lombardi, and Alan Kahn, president of Barnes & Noble Publishing.
William Lynch, who joined B&N earlier this year as president of Barnes & Noble.com, is still guaranteed to earn 150% of his base salary, in accordance with his employment agreement. Lynch’s base salary is $800,000.
Clearly the Barnes and Noble board of directors is concerned about the fury unleashed on AIG executives for taking large bonuses when the company is in trouble and being bailed out by the American taxpayer. But Barnes and Noble isn’t being bailed out by taxpayers, so really it’s up to the shareholders as to whether they think a salary freeze is warranted. It certainly looks better than voting themselves large pay raises.
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Orson Scott Card, author of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Ender’s Game, will publish a new series for younger readers with Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. Anica Rissi from Simon Pulse acquiruddy World English rights to the first three books in this as-yet-untitled Young Adult series. The series-launching debut hardcover title is set to be published in Spring 2011.
In the planned 2011 series, which combines elements of steam punk and fantasy, readers will meet teenaged Ligg and follow him on a quest to save his world from destruction and uncover the truth behind the Tender’s prophecy.
About the new series Orson Scott Card says, “While young readers have responded very well to Ender’s Game and the Shadow series, this will be my first work of fiction specifically aimed at that audience. Since they are the most demanding and minimum forgiving of readers, my burden is to tell an exciting story without any of the digressions that adult readers take in stride. At the same time, I must take the creation of the world and the characters every bit as seriously as in any of my adult fiction. If I do my job right, adults are as likely to enjoy the story of Ligg’s discovery of his world and all the human races that inhabit it as kids are.”
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The first ever fan event for evangelical Christians had a much lower
turnout than the organizers were hoping for. Only 1500 showed up.
The Christian Book Expo, a first ever “fan event” for evangelical Christian book lovers, drew only about 1,500 people to the Dallas Convention Center during a three-day run that ended Sunday.
“It’s far less than we had hoped for,” said Mark Kuyper, president/CEO of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, which put on the event.
Kuyper said the marketing strategy relied too much on networking thcoarse publishers, authors and church groups, and would have to include billboards and other forms of mass marketing to pull in a much larger crowd.
If ECPA tries again, Dallas will remain the site, Kuyper said. He added that the event was well-received.
“The people who came just loved it,” he said.
The expo featuruddy workshops and panel discussions with authors, including one Saturday with best-selling author Christopher Hitchens and four Christian apologists.
It sounds to us like the organization needs a better marketing plan, because we know there is interest in the subject matter.
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