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Maria Campbell Named Scout for Danish House, People's Press
Maria B. Campbell Associates has been retained as the literary scouting firm for Denmark publisher People's Press.
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S&S Nabs Transmedia Project From Kevin Costner
Judith Curr, at Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint, bought world rights to a serialized project by Kevin Costner called The Explorers Guild.
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S&S Signs Clive Davis Memoir
Record producer Clive Davis has sold his memoir to Simon & Schuster. Eric Simonoff at William Morris Endeavor brokered the North American rights deal, closing at auction, with S&S publisher Jonathan Karp.
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Feminist Press Lands Pussy Riot E-book
The nonprofit, indie Feminist Press will be publishing the first e-book about the Russian punk band, Pussy Riot.
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Graphic Arts Books Buys Pruett Publishing Titles
Graphic Arts Books has acquired the trade titles and publishing rights of Pruett Publishing Company of Boulder, Col. The deal includes about 50 books which Graphic Arts will publish under its WestWinds Press imprint.
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Amazon Publishing Adds Over 1,000 Dorchester Titles
Following an auction that concluded August 28, Amazon Publishing has acquired the publication contracts of over 1,000 books from Dorchester Publishing.
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Open Road to Pub British Erotica Trilogy in North America
Open Road Media is publishing the British erotic series Eighty Days in North America. The trilogy was published by Orion in the UK in early August and has, per Open Road, become a bestseller and sparked big ticket bids for translation rights.
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Ecco To Publish McCullough Commencement Speech
Ecco won the rights to publish David MucCullough Jr.'s forthcoming book based on his commencement speech that went viral.
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Rinaldi Nabs Fitness Book By Cameron Diaz for New List at HC
Karen Rinaldi, who joined HarperCollins in March (after a stint at Rodale) to oversee a new list of health and wellness titles, has made one of her first acquisitions, buying a fitness/lifestyle book by actress Cameron Diaz.
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S&S Offers Paperless Royalty Statements
Simon & Schuster is going paperless with its royalty statements. The publisher, which streamlined its royalty process in February (among other things making the statement availabline online through its Agent Portal), is now offering authors the option of viewing all of their agency's statements that have been converted to the new format.
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McGraw-Hill Education Buys Key Curriculum
McGraw-Hill Education has acquired Key Curriculum, a privately held developer of mathematics learning technology in the K-12 and higher education markets. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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F+W Media Acquires Interweave
F+W Media has acquired Aspire Media, the parent company of Interweave, in a move the unites two of the country’s largest publishers of niche content for particular communities.
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Osprey Buys Duncan Baird Publishers
U.K.-based Osprey Group has acquired the assets and publishing business of Duncan Baird Publishers which includes Watkins Publishing.
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PW's New Deals Twitter Feed, @PW_Deals, Goes Live
While some of you fair readers may get your fix of deals news from the informal account @DeahlsDeals, launched by our Deals columnist, Rachel Deahl, we have now ported over to a more official feed for this coverage: @PW_Deals.
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HarperCollins Completes Nelson Purchase
After a lengthy review by the government, HarperCollins, parent company of Zondervan, has finally completed the purchase of Thomas Nelson.
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Atria Inks Self-Pub'd Bestseller McGuire to Two-Book Deal
Jamie McGuire, who self-published the novel Beautiful Disaster, has signed a two-book deal with Atria, after the S&S imprint emerged as the winner of a bidding war.
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Warner Bros. to Buy Alloy Entertainment
Less than two years after Alloy Entertainment was acquired by an investor group led by ZelnickMedia, Warner Bros. Television Group has reached an agreement to buy the company in a deal expected to close by the third quarter.
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Argo Navis Adds Three Agenices
The Perseus Books Group's digital distribution platform for authors, Argo Navis, has signed three new literary agencies.
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ICM Agents Complete Firm Buyout, Change Name to ICM Partners
International Creative Management, the agency with strongholds on the West and East coasts, has finalized a buyout of the firm by its top executives.
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Shambhala Buys Snow Lion Publications
Shambhala Publications has acquired Snow Lion Publications, a purchase that will add more than 300 new titles to its list of books on spirituality, psychology, health and lifestyle. Snow Lion, based in Ithaca, NY, specializes in Tibetan Buddhist books, including over two dozen titles by the Dalai Lama.
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