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Jack White's Publishing Upstart Signs with Consortium
Grammy Award-winning rock musician Jack White's indie publishing effort, Third Man Books, has signed a North American distribution with Consortium, and is looking ahead to releasing three titles in 2015.
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News Briefs: Week of March 16, 2015
Bookstore sales dipped in January and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Modiano’s Nobel Win Is a Boon to David R. Godine
Boston-based indie publisher David R. Godine saw a major sales boost last October when French author Patrick Modiano won the Nobel Prize for Literature, bringing its revenue for the year up 30% over 2013.
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Margaret Atwood to Release New Novel in September
'The Heart Goes Last,' which will be published in the U.S. on September 29, marks the celebrated Canadian author’s first stand-alone novel in 15 years.
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Reader's Digest Condensed Book Series to Get Wider Distribution
The Reader’s Guild has signed a long-term licensing agreement to market and publish Reader’s Digest's Condensed Book series as Reader’s Digest Classic Editions.
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Fast-Growing Independent Publishers, 2015
The 12 independent publishers that made PW’s fast-growing list took a variety of routes to keep sales growing over the last three years.
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AFC+A Launches Publishing Arm
Mandel Vilar Press will publish titles with a Jewish and Latino/Latin American focus.
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Coffee House Launches First Imprint with Emily Books
The Minneapolis literary nonprofit is Brooklyn-based Emily Books to launch the Emily Books imprint. The partnership, according to Coffee House's Chris Fischbach, is paving the way for Emily Books co-founders, Emily Gould and Ruth Curry, to eventually launch their own press.
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Duke Univ. Press Picking Up Abandoned South End Titles
South End Press, Boston-based press that folded last year, has struck a deal to have four of its stranded titles distributed by Duke University Press.
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Unnamed Press Creating Home For Contemporary Authors
Unnamed Press, a new publishing house based in Los Angeles, started out with a completely different name.
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Bringing Denmark's 'Queen of Crime' to the U.S.
In her native country, Sara Blaedel is a household name. But, she's not yet well-known in the U.S. With the help of a few famous literary friends, Blaedel is out to change that.
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News Briefs: Week of Febraury 23, 2015
Shoemaker named president at PGW and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Rosarium Bets on Multicultural Novels and Comics
Publishers kept telling Bill Campbell that his novels weren’t marketable, so he published them himself, found a market, and 18 months ago started Rosarium Publishing to do the same for other writers and comics creators.
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Graywolf Hoping for 'On Immunity' Bump Thanks to Zuckerberg
The small press is hoping Mark Zuckerberg's selection of Eula Biss's short work will lead to a sales bump, and renewed interest, in the title.
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University of Wisconsin Press Names New Director
The University of Wisconsin Press has named Dennis Lloyd its new director. He will assume his new position in May Lloyd currently is deputy director for sales, marketing, and acquisitions at the University of Florida Press.
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S&S Heads Back to Press on Carr's 'Night of the Gun'
Simon & Schuster will be reprinting 10,000 copies of revered 'New York Times' critic and columnist David Carr's 2008 memoir following his death last week.
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News Briefs: Week of Febraury 16, 2015
Sales, earnings dropped at S&S in 2014 and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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'Mockingbird' Sales Soar
Following news that Harper Lee's second novel, 'Go Set a Watchman' will pub in July, sales for Lee's landmark first book, 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' nearly tripled.
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News Briefs: Week of Febraury 9, 2015
Harper Lee to publish second novel and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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West Coast Port Dispute Could Sink Book Sales
A work slowdown by longshoremen at West Coast ports, which has been going on since the summer, is reaching a critical point.