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Transportation Pub Motorbooks Launches Two New Series
The Minneapolis-based house is hoping to expand beyond hard-core transportation enthusiasts with the new lines, which are aimed at readers who want to know more about cars, motorcycles, and the culture surrounding them.
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New York Publishers Offer Help to Hurricane Harvey Victims
Scholastic, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin Random House are among the big New York houses who are offering their support—in the form of books and, in some cases, food and shelter—to those in flood-ravaged Southeast Texas.
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Exploring the USA With Lonely Planet
In addition to constantly expanding their international offerings, Lonely Planet has a growing commitment to books for travelers who want to explore the United States in all its variety. (Sponsored)
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Exploring Lonely Planet’s World
Lonely Planet, the world's number one guidebook publisher, has not only printed over 145 million guidebooks covering 95% of the world’s destinations, Lonely Planet has created content in over fourteen languages, including everything from magazines and TV shows to children’s books, cookbooks, phrasebooks, maps, web resources, apps, and gift books. (Sponsored)
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Ingram Realigns Executive Team
Under the restructuring, Shawn Everson will be responsible for all of Ingram's wholesaling operations and Phil Ollila will focus on the distribution business.
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Chicken Soup for the Resistance
A new collection from Chicken Soup for the Soul, 'My Kind (of) America,' which published earlier this week, tells stories of kindnesses shared between many diverse people in America.
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Lonely Planet Inspires Adventures
Lonely Planet’s “Explore every day” motto guides everything the company does. “We want people to think of Lonely Planet on a regular basis, for local adventures, not just when planning a major international trip,” said Alvarez, the company’s trade marketing manager for the US. (Sponsored)
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Global Publishing Leaders 2017: WEKA
The Weka Specialist Publishing House for Public Authorities and Industry was founded by Werner and Karin Mützel in 1973.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2017: Westermann Gruppe
Westermann is a German publisher founded in 1838.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2017: John Wiley & Sons
Wiley was founded in 1807 and competes in three markets represented by its core divisions of Research, Professional Development, and Education.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2017: Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer is a Dutch global information service company that provides information, software, and services to the legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare markets.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2017: Woongjin Think Big
Woongjin ThinkBig was established in 1980 as Woongjin Publications and focuses on educational materials for people of all ages, including study books, complete collections, single works, after-school learning materials, textbooks and online content.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2017: Thomson Reuters
The Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group PLC merged to form Thomson Reuters in 2008.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2017: Springer Nature
Springer Nature is a leading global research, educational and professional publisher.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2017: Somos Educação S.A.
Somos Educação S.A., known as Abril Educação until June 2015, is a publicly traded company listed on BM&FBovespa’s Novo Mercado segment.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2017: Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster was founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2017: Shueisha Publishing Co., Ltd.
Shueisha is a major publisher in Japan and the largest manga publisher in the world with a market share in Japan of 30%.
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Diversification Drives Gains at Abrams
A new round of expansion—including the launch last fall of a text-driven imprint—is keeping the publisher vibrant.
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Is Poetry the New Adult Coloring Book?
Button Poetry is finding success in publishing and marketing poetry originally written for performance—leading some to believe that the sub-genre has book industry staying power.