Editorial by Bryce Milligan SAN ANTONIO: As a regional publisher whose books range from handmade chapbooks to 600-page works of fiction and history, I have been wondering what will become of the physical book in this brave new digital world. Already my paper-and-ink sales are declining as my ebook sales increase—except for, of all things, the lowly chapbook. I began …
German Buch News: Lubbe Plans 1.2m 1st Printing of The Lost Symbol
By Siobhan O’Leary Responding to the phenomenal sales of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol in the US, Brown’s German publisher Lübbe has ordered an additional 400,000 copies on top of original 800,000 copy first printing, BuchMarkt reports. The US edition is said to have sold over a million copies in the first 24 hours. As for the fear that sales of …