Bonnier News - Weldon Owen

Comfort Food from Saveur

By Bert Menninga on 2011-07-15
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Saveur releases its fourth cookbook: The New Comfort Food. Editor-in-chief James Oseland talks about how it came about.

How do you write a cookbook about comfort food? For America's popular food magazine Saveur, it took all the right elements falling into place, lots of discussion and plenty of hard work to produce the recently published The New Comfort Food: Home Cooking from Around the World.

It had been nearly ten years since Saveur had last put out a cookbook.

Grill Master a Hit

By Dean Turcol on 2011-06-13
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Grill cookbook from Weldon Owen for Williams Sonoma No. 1 in cookbooks at Apple's iBookstore.

The digital edition of the Weldon Owen title Williams-Sonoma Grill Master last week was the No. 1 best-selling cookbook in the Apple iBookstore in the U.S. Written by Fred Thompson, the title is a definitive guide to everyone's favorite way to cook, and is the first cookbook in the store to feature embedded video.

"Apple has been very supportive of the initiative to convert our titles to fixed-layout ebooks for the iPad," says Roger Shaw, vice president and publisher at Weldon Owen.

Weldon Owen and Field & Stream Release Guidebook

By Bert Menninga on 2011-04-20
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The Total Outdoorsman Manual features 374 important skills.

Weldon Owen and Field & Stream have teamed up for a new book, The Total Outdoorsman Manual. This is the first time the two Bonnier business units have collaborated on a book project.

Weldon Owen Launches Customer Apps

By Bert Menninga on 2011-02-22
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U.S. book publisher Weldon Owen turns its books into iPhone applications for everyday use.

U.S. book publisher Weldon Owen Inc. launched its first two iPhone apps in January 2011, one with a long-term brand-publishing partner Gymboree Play & Music and one based on its internationally bestselling book Show Me How.

Weldon Owen Takes on the World

By Tora Bonnier on 2010-08-03
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Book Publisher Weldon Owen’s international sales and branded books make the company a winner.

"We create high-end, lavishly produced, beautiful books, and we look for brands that can benefit from our creative input and customers who occupy a distinct niche in the market," says Terry Newell, CEO of book publisher Weldon Owen.

Culinary Coup

By Bert Menninga on 2010-05-10
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Weldon Owen and Saveur win first prizes in IACP Awards.

Bonnier Corporation's Weldon Owen and Saveur magazine each won two International Association of Culinary Professionals awards, announced at the IACP's New Culinary Order annual meeting in April in Portland, Oregon. The IACP is one of the largest global culinary organizations and has been giving out the awards since 1986.

Weldon Owen Takes It Further

By Dean Turcol on 2010-03-09
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Weldon Owen expands from producing and packaging books for others into a publisher in its own right.

For more than 20 years, Weldon Owen has produced and packaged books, selling publishing rights to a third party. Now in an effort to get closer to its markets and take control of the sales and marketing of its books, Weldon Owen has taken the publishing process in-house.

First up: Weldon Owen becomes the official publisher of the highly successful Williams-Sonoma branded book titles.

Awards for Show Me How

By Bert Menninga on 2010-02-19
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Weldon Owen's international succes, Show Me How, wins two awards.

Show Me How, one of Weldon Owen's top titles with 410,000 copies sold in 17 international editions, recently won the Booksellers' Medal of Honor from the Dutch publisher and bookseller industry organization CPNB. The award, which is given to non-fiction books published in the Netherlands, is for books that that not only do a great job of informing readers about a topic without any prior knowledge, but also serve as ambassadors for all books within the genre.The various titles are as ambassador of all books in their genre.

Weldon Owen-cookbook #1 in Williams-Sonoma stores

By Linnea Pontvik on 2010-01-26
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20,000 copies of Ebelskivers sold in December.

Weldon Owen-published book Ebelskivers was the #1 selling cookbook at Williams-Sonoma stores in December, selling over 20,000 copies in December and 50,000 copies since its September publication.

Ebelskivers, stovetop filled Danish pancakes, are one of the hottest trends in cooking right now.

 

Show Me How Illustrates the Power of Graphics in International Markets

By Ganda Suthivarakom on 2009-07-15
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Always wanted to know how to fight a shark?  Roll sushi properly?  Check out Show Me How, a book that has conquered international markets with graphic illustrations explaining 500 useful, fun and whimsical tasks.

"Show, don't tell," creative writing teachers like to say.  Show Me How has taken that advice to heart.