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Spotlight on Minotaur Signature Editions
In September, Minotaur will launch Minotaur Signature Editions, a line of classic Minotaur mysteries and thrillers by bestselling authors, as well as U.S. debuts from overseas sensations, all priced at $9.99 (Sponsored)
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Bill Clinton, James Patterson Team Up for Novel
'The President Is Missing,' slated for June 2018, was sold in a joint deal to Knopf and Little, Brown.
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Pearson Plans More Cuts, May Sell School Group
Pearson said it has plans to further reduce costs by $300 million, and it is also reviewing its strategic options for the K-12 courseware business.
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Teaching Writing At the Writers Studio
The non-MFA writing school, run by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Schultz, turns 30 this year, and marks the milestone with a new anthology.
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LSU: Elsevier Is Blocking Campus IP Addresses, Dodging Lawsuit
LSU has filed a lawsuit against Elsevier, claiming the publisher is wrongly blocking students in its veterinary school from accessing the library’s Elsevier subscriptions. Elsevier officials, meanwhile, are characterizing the contract dispute as a negotiation, and say they hope to settle it commercially.
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Proposed Spending Bill Would Up NEA, NEH Budgets
As part of an agreement to avoid a government shutdown, the new funding deal would add about $2 million to the budgets at both agencies through September 2017.
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New Tor Imprint to Focus on Experimental Genre Publishing
Tor Labs will launch this summer with a 14-episode podcast called 'Steal the Stars' about two government employees guarding a crashed UFO.
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HarperCollins Launches Literacy Campaign #WhyIRead
The social media and charity initiative is timed to the publisher's 200th anniversary. It aims to stress the importance of literacy, and will donate $200,000 to literacy-related charities.
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Waterhouse Press Prepares for Misadventures
The fledgling press, still not even five years old, prepares to launch a new series it hopes will prove to be as successful as the two that came before.
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What's New for Books In Spanish
Ray Loriga wins the Premio Alfaguara literary award, Barcelona's Ediciones B adjusts to Penguin Random House rule, and more.
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Women Rule in Indie Publishing
Mainstream publishing, despite its heavily female workforce, has serious gender pay gap issues—but at independent houses, it's a woman's woman's woman's world.
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New Spanish Language Imprint Launches at Quarto Group
Quarto Iberoamericana will be overseen with Quarto Group's longtime partner, the Argentina-based Catapulta Editores. It will publish 20 books a year, starting in fall 2017.
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HMH Makes Another Round of Layoffs
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ramped up its cost cutting initiatives yesterday, laying off approximately 20 people in its trade division. The company would not comment on the number of job cuts, but admitted that "organizational changes" had been made.
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Quirks Work At Quirk Books
For the Philadelphia-based indie with more than a few surprise bestsellers in its tanks, Quirk's the name and quirk's the game.
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Bill O'Reilly's Publisher Standing by Their Man
Bill O’Reilly has been a mainstay of the Henry Holt list for years and, at the moment, that is not changing. The Macmillan imprint told PW that it has no intention of altering its support of the bestselling author, despite his dismissal from Fox News.
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'Communism for Kids' Sparks Conservative Backlash
A new book that purports to teach children about communism, published by MIT Press, has caused an outcry from a handful of conservative media outlets.
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PRH Partners with Save the Children on Reading Campaign
The new initiative. #ProjectReadathon Million Minutes, encourages children to read in communities throughout North America.
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Like His Publisher, Crime Novelist Alex Segura Wears Many Hats
This month, Polis books will publish 'Dangerous Ends,' the third novel in the Pete Fernandez mystery series written by Segura, who is also senior v-p of publicity and marketing at Archie Comics.
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Always in Season: Backlist Backbones 2017
Publishers are coming up with new ways to promote evergreen titles.
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