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Hachette Reports Progress on Green Initiatives
Hachette Book Group increased its use of paper from certified sources and upped its use of recycled fiber in 2015 over 2014, according to a progress report released by the publisher.
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News Briefs: Week of February 8, 2016
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Revisiting NewSouth's Sanitized Twain
Five years after the Alabama-based publisher released a joint edition of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn' stripped of racial slurs, the controversy surrounding the book has subsided and orders are coming in.
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News Briefs: Week of February 1, 2016
Amazon’s 2015 revenue tops $100 billion and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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News Briefs: Week of January 25, 2016
EDC reports record quarter and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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The Upstart Pub Behind the Surprise Hit, 'Calendar Girl'
Waterhouse Press, which published the bestselling 12-book erotica series that 'USA Today' just touted as the next Fifty Shades of Grey, is taking a numbers-driven approach to cracking the bestseller list. So far, it seems to be working.
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F+W Names Tom Beusse CEO
Beusse, an executive with experience at USA Today and Westwood One, is succeeding David Nussbaum, who left F+W in late 2015 after eight years at the company.
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At 75, Avon Books Is Still Going Strong
The romance publisher has changed with the times, and is a major force in romance publishing on both the print and digital fronts.
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Dover Publications Looks Beyond The Public Domain
Dover will add royalty-paying titles to its large and historically successful catalog of public-domain based works.
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AAP, UNCF Partner to Improve Diversity Hiring in Book Biz
The AAP, working with the United Negro College Fund, is offering paid summer internships in the book industry to African American students at Historical black colleges and universities.
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Penguin Merges Berkley Into Putnam/Dutton
In what looks to be a response to declining mass market sales, Penguin has merged its Berkley imprint into the unified Putnam and Dutton group.
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The Big 5 Publishers Sat Out Deal-Making in 2015
The biggest deals in the publishing industry happened in the professional and education markets.
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Open Road Restructures, Adds New Execs
Open Road has implemented a new organizational structure that it said will help it become a broader digital content company.
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Book Groups Voice Concern About Hong Kong Booksellers
Five book industry organizations issued a statement expressing "extreme concern” about the mysterious disappearance of five employees of a Hong Kong publishing and bookselling company.
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With New Promotion, Sourcebooks Gives Back to Indies
To push its January book 'The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend,' Sourcebooks has launched a reader voting campaign that will see three bookstores win grants up to $3,000.
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Author Solutions Sold to Private Equity Firm
Penguin Random House has sold its Author Solutions division to an affiliate of the Najafi Companies, a private investment firm that at one point owned Bookspan.
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Publishing News Briefs: Week of January 4, 2016
Obituary: Mark Dressler and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Authors Guild Begins Letter-Writing Campaign to Meet with Publishers
As part of its ongoing effort to raise writers’ income, the Authors Guild is sending an open letter to members of the Association of American Publishers.
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The Cultural Encyclopedia That Almost Never Was
Alex Ewen and Jeffrey Wollock were contracted in 1994 to create an encyclopedia of Native American life in the 20th century. After decades of missed deadlines and setbacks, it's finally been published.