Posted by: Publicity on Feb 01, 2010
Michael Starr, television reporter for the New York Post, featured the details of the partnership between Sourcebooks and Corday Productions/Sony Pictures on the release of a Days of our Lives book line in today's paper. The New York Post has a morning circulation of 500,000.
"Days of Our Lives," one of the last soaps standing, is get ting the book treatment from Sourcebooks, Sony Pictures and Corday Productions, which are launching "Days of Our Lives Publications," a series of tomes based on the NBC sudser. The line will include both fiction and nonfiction titles, published by Sourcebooks, including the May release of a memoir from "DOOL" executive producer Ken Corday (son of show creators Ted and Betty Corday). The fiction books will expand on "DOOL" storylines.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/starr_report_NGdQsW8h7rZlj6aZeU0FqJ#ixzz0eIIt9YGe
Posted by: Publicity on Nov 04, 2009
PoetrySpeaks: That cha-ching you hear is the launch of a poetry site
Posted in Books by Jonathan Messinger on November 4th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Poets talk about community more than just about anyone else. Go to a slam or open mike and you'll hear countless folks at the mike thanking the community or passing the hat to support the community. There's no setup here: It's actually one of the things that makes the scene here an inviting one. But it's funny that that community has never really extended itself online.
Naperville's Sourcebooks has launched the most complete poetry social-networking site we've seen to date in PoetrySpeaks.com. Users can log on, create a profile and upload their own poetry (written or recorded). There's also plenty of poetry on there to browse and listen to. It's not just user-generated content, either: I just clicked on Emily Dickinson's face. You can preview recordings of famous and not-so-famous poems, and buy them for 99 cents a pop (though text versions are free), all of which means the site aims to turn a profit.
READ MORE AT TIME OUT CHICAGO
Posted by: Publicity on Nov 04, 2009
PoetrySpeaks.com was launched yesterday by Sourcebooks, which has published the successful Poetry Speaks book series for nearly a decade. The new website is designed to serve as a social networking venue for poets and poetry lovers, as well as a business and marketing engine for poets and poetry presses.
"We believe that PoetrySpeaks.com can solve some of the challenges the poets themselves face in getting their work, their message, and themselves in front of readers," said Dominique Raccah, CEO and publisher of Sourcebooks. "We wanted a site that helps connect poetry readers (and potential poetry readers) and poets. And we wanted to begin developing a new business model for poetry."
Three potential sources of revenue are in place, with several others in development. PoetrySpeaks.com will sell individual poems in different formats (audio, video or text); books, e-books, DVDs and CDs; and tickets to online performances, slams and readings.
READ MORE AT SHELF AWARENESS
Posted by: Publicity on Nov 04, 2009
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705223.html
Sourcebooks PoetrySpeaks to Sell Poems by the Work
By Jim Milliot -- Publishers Weekly, 11/3/2009 3:23:00 PM
Having carved a successful niche for her company in the poetry market with Sourcebooks' Poetry Speaks series by combining books and CDs, Dominique Raccah believes she can help poets and poetry publishers make money over the Internet through the company's newly launched PoetrySpeaks.com <http://www.poetryspeaks.com/> . The Web site features three different sections, PS Voices, SpokenWord and YourMic, designed to create an online community that will let poets manage their own information page, provide a channel for published and unpublished poets to download material, and to sell both print and digital works. "We want to bring poetry to as broad a group of consumers as possible," said Raccah.
Raccah believes that a key to the success of the Poetry Speaks print line is that it makes poetry less intimidating to readers by adding the audio component and she hopes that by combining different elements online people will feel a connection to the works--and will want to buy poems they like. PoetrySpeaks.com will sell individual poems for 99 cents for an audio or print download, $1.49 for a combination of text and audio and $1.99 for video. Raccah is also looking for a retail partner to sell print books as well as DVDs and CDs as well as to help promote--and possibly hold--performances by poets. Raccah said Sourcebooks has identified 13 revenue streams, but is starting with ones customers are the most comfortable with, patterned after the iTunes model.
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Posted by: Publicity on Nov 04, 2009
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/11/03/is-poetry-on-the-net-something-people-will-get/
Dominique Raccah, a longtime publisher, thinks there is good money to be made in poetry. And no, she's not kidding.
Ms. Raccah has launched a trial version of PoetrySpeaks.com, which she says has been five years in the making. Poets can post their own poems, videos and performances, while readers can sample poetry that stretches from Alfred Lord Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light Brigade" to Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai reading "Making Guacamole." Categories include Top Rated Poets, Most Viewed Poems and Poetry Animation.
Ms. Raccah knows the poetry landscape. She founded Sourcebooks Inc., an independent publisher based in Naperville, Ill., back in 1987. Today Sourcebooks issues an estimated 300 new titles annually and has a backlist of approximately 1,750.
Earlier works include the poetry anthology "Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath," edited by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby, which has sold 190,000 copies in various editions since it was published in 2001, and "Poetry Speaks to Children," edited by Ms. Paschen, which has sold approximately 170,000 copies since it was published 2005. Both works come with CDs on which famous poets can be heard reading their work. A third volume in the series, "Hip Hop Speaks to Children," edited by Nikki Giovanni, has sold 55,000 copies since being published in 2008.
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Posted by: Publicity on Oct 01, 2009
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SOURCEBOOKS ANNOUNCES NEW YOUNG ADULT IMPRINT TO LAUNCH SPRING 2010
September 29, 2009 (NAPERVILLE, IL)-Three years ago Sourcebooks announced the creation of a children's imprint, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. The successful imprint has seen tremendous growth, including three New York Times Bestsellers and partnerships with celebrated authors such as Nikki Giovanni, Mary Ann Hoberman, and Francesca Simon.
The hiring of Dan Ehrenhaft, formerly of Alloy Entertainment, this past spring, solidified what would be the next step for Sourcebooks-a young adult imprint. SOURCEBOOKS FIRE will officially launch in spring 2010 with seven titles, including a bestselling paranormal romance series from the UK, a novel based on the true life story of teenage sisters who invented the séance in 1848, a romantic mystery set against the backdrop of the civil war, and a YA supernatural thriller set in New York City, among others.
"The things you discover as a teen-your favorite novels, your favorite poetry, your favorite bands-these stay with you for the rest of your life. They matter. They make a mark. They really do burn. That moment of discovery is what Sourcebooks Fire is all about," says Fire editor Ehrenhaft.
Posted by: Publicity on Jul 15, 2009
Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah is featured in a New York Times article discussing the release of e-books.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/books/15ebooks.html?_r=2&src=twt&twt=nytimesbooks
The coverage follows the decision to delay the e-book release of Sourcebooks' fall juvenile fiction/middle grade release Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse by Kaleb Nation announced this week via an article in The Wall Street Journal.
Posted by: Publicity on Jul 13, 2009
Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah was featured in a Wall Street Journal article detailing the company's decision to delay the e-book release of its highly anticipated fall title Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse by Kaleb Nation.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124744388627630253.html
The Wall Street Journal has a circulation of 2 million.
Posted by: Publicity on Jul 07, 2009
Nonfiction review: 'A Trance After Breakfast'
Posted by Lucy Burningham, Special to The Oregonian July 02, 2009 15:50PM
Alan Cheuse is the kind of travel writer who doesn't try to convince you to go anywhere, except through the shutters that flutter open (or creak, depending on your state of mind) throughout his text.
In his new collection of essays, "A Trance After Breakfast and Other Passages," the NPR book reviewer and novelist moves through various landscapes with a wise and purposeful gait, seeking meaning and metaphor instead of superficial sensations...
The collection reveals a narrator who intimately understands the best kind of travel companion: one who can stop talking and simply observe, then, when the moment's right, share a valuable, personal nugget or slice of wisdom.
Click here for full review!
Posted by: Publicity on Jun 23, 2009
I spend my days steeped in rights, royalties and the contracts that govern them, and this much is clear: publishers must plan new approaches to rights or risk future viability. Regardless of how the courts or the Justice Department treat the Google Book Settlement, the Book Rights Registry (BRR) will exist in some form; the industry needs it for the widest possible dissemination of content. A registry combined with clear and streamlined rights agreements would help publishers keep pace with content delivery innovations.
Following a BEA panel on the settlement that my company, MetaComet, hosted, my colleagues and I surveyed some industry leaders on the subject. "We've got to make it easy for people to find who is the appropriate rights holder.... Right now, that is a complexity that is unnecessary in our business," said Dominique Raccah, publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks Inc.
"We want to ensure that authors reach readers in the broadest possible way," via iPhone apps, music video, "or something we can't envision now." A registry and simplicity in rights agreements would help accomplish that.
One option to facilitate this: have authors give a publisher all rights to a work, but for a limited time, such as three years. "Because everything moves so fast, it ought to be quite clear in three years if a publisher exploited each right," Richard Nash, formerly publisher of Soft Skull Press and now a consultant, told me over coffee earlier this month. Nash hopes to implement this idea in a new publishing venture he is working on. He thinks this structure would facilitate business partnerships between authors and publishers, and would provide authors with one partner who orchestrates the entire campaign. It could also benefit agents, because they could spend less time shopping around smaller "chunks" of content.
Will authors and agents stand for such innovation and out-of-the-box thinking? Conversations with the Authors Guild made it clear the challenging environment has made authors more open to new ideas of partnerships. Giving up rights for a shorter duration is "interesting.... I wouldn't rule it out, but the devil is always in the details," Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, said to my COO recently.
