BTW News Briefs

USA Today Expands Books Coverage, Includes IndieBound Purchase Option

This week, USA Today expanded its coverage of books, with the addition of books.usatoday.com. The new site allows consumers to discover, discuss, share, preview, and purchase books online. The site’s “Buy” button offers consumers the choice of purchasing from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, the iBookstore, or IndieBound bookstores.

USA Today’s Best-Selling Books list ranks the 150 top-selling titles each week, based on the analysis of sales from bookstore chains, independent bookstores, mass merchandisers, and online retailers. More than 10,000 books previously ranked on USA Today’s Best-Selling Books list are also now included on books.usatoday.com.

Dwell Seeks Suggestions for Indie Bookstores Map

Dwell magazine is asking readers to submit their favorite independent bookstores around the country to design a map to highlight “the kinds of places where you might roam for hours, scouring the shelves and scouting the stacks.”

Visitors to the Dwell site are invited to post comments about their favorite bookstores to help the magazine reach its goal of creating “the biggest, most bibliographic map of independent bookstores in the United States.”

Ingram Publisher Services Adds Four Clients

On July 13, Ingram Publisher Services announced agreements with four new publishers: the Royal Society of Chemistry, Insight Publications, No Limit Publishing Group, and Opinionated About.

“We look forward to putting the strength of Ingram’s combined services behind each of our new publishers, freeing them up to concentrate on content creation while we focus on getting their content where it needs to be,” said Mark Ouimet, vice president and general manager, Ingram Publisher Services. 

Skyhorse Inks U.K./E.U. Distribution Deal

Skyhorse Publishing, named America’s fastest growing small publisher in 2010 by Publishers Weekly, will grow outside America in 2011. Skyhorse has signed a deal with Constable Robinson, an independent publisher in England, for distribution of its books into the United Kingdom and European Union. The agreement takes effect on September 1 and includes the distribution of both print books and e-books.