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Media Services Group Buys Veridean Publishing Assets
Media Services Group, a developer of integrated publishing and event management software, has acquired the publishing assets of Veridean Technology Solutions, an Internet strategies and solutions provider. Media Services has rolled the publishing assets of Veridean into a new e-commerce division that will be under the direction of Tom Jensen, former CTO of Penton Media.
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Malloy Steps Up to Fill Demand for 'Book of Awakening'
The college town of Ann Arbor, Mich., has recently been the unlikely hotbed for the production of a number of national bestsellers. Thomson-Shore, in nearby Dexter, produced the first volume of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, and Malloy, which is in Ann Arbor, produced The Book of Awakening, which was selected as one of "Oprah's Ultimate Favorite Things," leading to a six-week run on PW’s bestseller list, including a stint in the #1 spot.
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Andrew Sullivan Turns Again to Blurb
For the second time, author, editor, and blogger Andrew Sullivan has taken reader content on his 10-year-old Daily Dish blog on the Atlantic Web site and created a crowd-sourced printed book published by Blurb and sold through its online bookstore. Last Friday Sullivan blogged about how the book, The Cannabis Closet, grew out of an extensive number of Daily Dish readers writing candidly about their pot use. By early this week, Blurb had sold 1,000 copies of the print-on-demand paperback priced at $5.95.
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Thomson-Shore Buys Bessenberg Bindery
Thomson-Shore has acquired the Bessenberg Bindery, a specialty hand bindery located in Ann Arbor, Mich. With the deal, Thomson-Shore has acquired Bessenberg's Books as Art™ capabilities that will allow T-S to do high quality, custom made books for as few as one copy.
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Producing a Holiday Miracle
With the holiday season heating up, Thomson-Shore and the University of California Press are working closely together to make sure that the season's sleeper hit—The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, edited by the Mark Twain Project at the University of California–Berkeley—reaches eager, and anxious, booksellers before Christmas.
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Qoop Offers POD Service for Google Books Public Domain Titles
Qoop, a free online social commerce and on-demand studio community, has joined with Google Books to offer consumers the ability to order print on demand editions of public domain titles through the Qoop Web site. The new deal will put a Qoop link in the "get the book" section on each of the two million public domain titles in Google Books listings.
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Ingram to Open POD Facility in Australia
Ingram Content Group this week announced plans to open a networked Lightning Source print-on-demand book production facility in Australia. The new Australian POD manufacturing plant will manufacture both paperback and hardcover black and white interior books and should begin operation in June 2011.
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At 'Innovation Summit,' Pearson, Hewlett Packard Tout Inkjet Printing for Books
For years now, publishers have heard how digital will kill print. But at the Hewlett Packard Innovation Summit, held September 20 at the Eventi Hotel in New York City, HP and Pearson officials told PW how HP's new generation of digital inkjet printers are making print better, offering more efficiency and the same quality as offset presses.
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IPS Adds Fox Chapel and Vantage
Five-year-old Ingram Publisher Services, an Ingram Content Group company, now has 66 active clients with the addition of Fox Chapel Publishing in East Petersburg, Pa., and Vantage Press in New York City.
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Quad/Graphics Completes World Color Purchase
Sussex, Wisc.-based Quad/Graphics has completed its acquisition of World Color Press and is scheduled to begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol QUAD. The deal was first announced in January and the combination of the two companies creates North America's second largest printer with annual sales of approximately $4.8 billion.
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Lightning Source, PediaPress Team to Produce Custom Wiki Books
Lightning Source, Ingram Content Group's POD unit, has entered into an agreement with PediaPress, a web-to-print service that enables consumers to create customized books using the content in Wikipedia, the popular free online reference site. Lightning Source will provide POD book manufacturing and international distribution for the customized books created using PediaPress technology.
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Ingram Adds Windsor, Alarm, and Schilt
Ingram Publishers Services has added three new clients: Alarm Press LLC, Windsor Peak Press, and Schilt Publishing. Alarm focuses on arts and music titles, and also publishes Alarm magazine, a quarterly title featuring underground musicians of note. Windsor Peak is focused on parenting and wedding titles, and some of its bestsellers include Bridal Bargains, Expecting 411, and Baby Bargains. Schilt, which does high-end photography books, recently won the 2010 Best Photography Book of the Year for The Rape of a Nation, a documentary photography book about the Congo war.
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Distribution Moves: Getty Goes With UCP; Cursor With PGW
Getty Publications is moving its distribution to University of Chicago Press, after being distributed by Oxford University Press. Also on the distribution moves front, Richard Nash's start-up, Cursor, which is billed as a "community/imprint," will be distributed by PGW. The first imprint to launch from Cursor is called Red Lemonade and its first title is set to publish in Spring 2011, Some Day This Will Be Funny by Lynne Tillman.
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Distribution Deals: S&S Takes Over Manhattan GMAT
Effective May 10, Simon & Schuster took over worldwide sales, distribution and fulfillment for Manhattan GMAT. The publishing line of Manhattan GMAT, and its sister company Atlas LSAT, includes GMAT and LSAT test prep books and in the fall they will publish a new set of test prep books for the GRE exam.
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Cenveo to Acquire Glyph International
Commercial printer Cenveo, one of the largest graphic communication companies in North America with sales for fiscal 2009 of $1.7 billion, announced that through its subsidiaries it has entered an agreement to acquire Glyph International from Infomedia 18 Limited. Glyph, which has 550 employees worldwide, provides content solutions to publishers through its operations in Fort Lauderdale, Bangalore, New Delhi, and London.
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Thomson-Shore Adds Digital Print Center
Thomson-Shore has completed a two-year $12 million capital improvement project with the installation of a $2 million digital print center that will move the company into the quick turnaround print-on-demand market.
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Rowman & Littlefield, NBN Sign Up for DocZone ‘Pay Per Page'
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group and the National Book Network announced plans to become pilot clients of DocZone, an XML content management system, through a new pricing model designed for publishers.
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Mobifusion Releases MOBIeReader for Mobile Devices
Mobifusion, a Silicon Valley-based technology provider for media and publishing, announced the release of MOBIeReader, an e-reading software application that will run on most mobile phones.
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Copia Is Coming to Tools of Change
Fresh off a buzz-generating appearance at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the enterprise and consumer electronics firm DMC Worldwide is in New York City showing off Copia, a new Web site offering a reading social network platform and e-commerce that includes a suite of linked digital reading devices set to hit the market this spring.
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John Wiley Signs Blio Deal
John Wiley has become the first major publisher to sign on to use Blio, the e-reader software application created by knfbReading Technology and powered by Baker & Taylor.
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