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24 April 2009
http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=press_2009_carn.html
The Carnegie Medal and its sister award, the Kate Greenaway Medal, are awarded annually by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at BAFTA in central London on Thursday 25 June.
The CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2009
BOYCE, FRANK COTTRELL COSMIC
Macmillan (Age range: 8+)
ISBN: 9781405054645
BROOKS, KEVIN BLACK RABBIT SUMMER
Puffin (Age range: 14+)
ISBN: 9780141381459
COLFER, EOIN AIRMAN 繁体版权已售出
Puffin (Age range: 9+)
ISBN: 9780141383354
DOWD, SIOBHAN BOG CHILD
David Fickling Books (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9780385614269
GRAY, KEITH OSTRICH BOYS
Definitions (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9780099456575
NESS, PATRICK THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO 重点详细书迅
Walker (Age range: 14+)
ISBN: 9781406310252
THOMPSON, KATE CREATURE OF THE NIGHT
Bodley Head (Age range: 14+)
ISBN: 9780370329291
THE MAN BOOKER
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2009
Judges’ List Announced
14 authors have made it on to the Judges’ List of Contenders for the third Man Booker International Prize. The writers come from 12 countries and seven are writers in translation.
The Judges’ List was announced by the chair of judges, Jane Smiley, at a press conference held at The New York Public Library, today (Wednesday 18 March 2009).
The 14 authors on the list are:
Peter Carey (Australia)
– HIS ILLEGAL SELF 简体版权已售出 / 繁体:AVAILABLE
– THEFT:A LOVE STORY 简体版权已售出 / 繁体:AVAILABLE
– WRONG ABOUT JAPAN: A FATHER’S JOURNEY WITH HIS SON
– MY LIFE AS A FAKE 简体/繁体:AVAILABLE
– TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG
– OSCAR AND LUCINDA 《奥斯卡与露辛达》 简体/繁体:AVAILABLE
Evan S. Connell (USA)
Mahasweta Devi (Bangladesh)
E.L. Doctorow (USA)
James Kelman (UK)
– KIERON SMITH, BOY 简体/繁体:AVAILABLE
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Arnošt Lustig (Czechoslovakia)
Alice Munro (Canada)
V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad/India)
– LETTERS BETWEEN A FATHER AND SON (BETWEEN FATHER AND SON : FAMILY LETTERS) 简体版权已售出 繁体:AVAILABLE (到期可授)
– LITERARY OCCASIONS: ESSAYS 简体/繁体:AVAILABLE
– IN A FREE STATE: A NOVEL 《自由国度》简体版权已售出 繁体中文:AVAILABLE (到期可授)
– HALF A LIFE 简体版权已售出 繁体中文:AVAILABLE(到期可授)
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– THE WRITER AND THE WORLD 简体/繁体:AVAILABLE
其他作品 简体繁体版权已售出
Joyce Carol Oates (USA)
– WHAT I LIVED FOR 简体/繁体:AVAILABLE
– THE MUSEUM OF DR. MOSES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 简体/繁体:AVAILABLE
Antonio Tabucchi (Italy)
– TRISTANO MUORE 《嘻哈星球笔记》繁体版权已售出 简体:AVAILABLE
Ngugi Wa Thiong’O (Kenya)
Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia)
– IN THE JAWS OF LIFE 《生命的入口》简体/繁体:AVAILABLE
– MINISTRY OF PAIN 简体/繁体:AVAILABLE
– FORDING THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS 简体/繁体:AVAILABLE
Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia)
The long tail is the life span of a book after the initial sales are slowing down.
She further concludes: “Although no one disputes the lengthening of the tail (clearly, more obscure products are being made available for purchase every day), the tail is likely to be extremely flat and populated by titles that are mostly a diversion for consumers whose appetite for true blockbusters continues to grow. It is therefore highly disputable that much money can be made in the tail. In sales of both videos and recorded music—in many ways the perfect products to test the long-tail theory—we see that hits are and probably will remain dominant. That is the reality that should inform retailers as they struggle to offer their customers a satisfying assortment cost-efficiently. And it’s the unavoidable challenge to producers. The companies that will prosper are the ones most capable of capitalizing on individual best sellers.”
Part of the intro: “in a typical year, Grand Central Publishing…spotlights just two ‘make’ books, one fiction and one nonfiction, for which the company’s publisher is willing, in her words, to ‘pull out all the stops.’ In the fall of 2007 those books were David Baldacci’s Stone Cold and Stephen Colbert’s I Am America (and So Can You!). The effects of this strategy show up in sales figures and profits. Whereas the 61 hardcover titles Grand Central put on its 2006 front list, on average, incurred costs of $650,000 and earned gross profits of just under $100,000, a wide range of numbers contributed to those averages. Grand Central’s most heavily marketed title incurred costs of $7 million and achieved net sales of just under $12 million, for a gross profit of nearly $5 million—50 times the average.”
Anderson’s blog provides some of his own quick takes on the journal article.
Harvard
Anderson blog
– Publishers Weekly, 2/25/2008 7:11:00 AM
Random House has given itself a significant presence in the visual book segment with its acquisition of The Monacelli Press. Founded in 1994 by Gianfranco Monacelli, the press has a backlist of about 250 books on architecture, fine arts, interior design, landscape architecture, photography and graphic design. The company will operate as a standalone imprint of Random House Inc. with Gianfranco Monacelli continuing to head the operation from new offices at Random House’s New York office. Sales and distribution will move from Penguin to Random House July 1. Random deputy chairman and COO Edward Volini said RH welcomes Monacelli Press “as a unique publishing program within Random House and look forward to providing growth opportunities for our new colleagues’ business.”