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Meet the Editor: Joshua Kendall
Last year will be a tough one to top for Joshua Kendall, who was brought in to run Mulholland Books, the new Little, Brown imprint, in 2012.
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Hard Case Releasing New King Editions
Titan Books's pulp imprint Hard Case Crime will be releasing two new editions of Stephen King's "Joyland," which it originally published in June 2013.
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Dutton Marks 150 Years of Publishing
About two years ago, a friend of Brian Tart, publisher of Dutton, gave him a copy of Seventy-Five Years, or the Joys and Sorrows of Publishing and Selling Books at Duttons from 1852–1927.
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News Briefs: Week of January 27, 2014
Amazon launches Christian imprint and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Solid First Week for 'Duty'
The memoir of former defense secretary Robert M. Gates has sold more than 80,000 copies during its first week on sale in the outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan.
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DK Partners With WWE
The agreement will include up to 18 releases over the period of three years.
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Amazon Publishing Launches Christian Imprint
Amazon Publishing adds Waterfall Press to its growing family of publishing imprints.
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Quercus on the Block
Less than a week after announcing disappointing holiday sales and expectations of a significant loss, U.K.-based Quercus has placed itself up for sale.
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Getty Launches Virtual Library
Getty Publications has introduced a virtual library that will provide free online access to more than 250 backlist titles.
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The Future of Reading: 10 Trends for 2014 and Beyond
The Internet has been disrupting the businesses of publishing and bookselling for the past two decades.
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News Briefs: Week of January 20, 2014
Coe named president, CEO of B&T and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Good Enterprises Winds Down
A lengthy filing posted on January 10 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern Pennsylvania provides a glimpse of some of the inner workings of Good Enterprises (the parent company of Good Books), which filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on December 11.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Gets "Original"
Projects you “desperately want to publish” but that you also can’t imagine “sliding comfortably between those two stiff pieces of cardboard” is how Farrar, Straus & Giroux senior editor Sean McDonald described FSG Originals, the publisher’s paperback line.
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F+W Acquires Craft Content Provider, New Track
F+W Media is expanding its verticals with its acquisition of New Track Media, a craft content and commerce company founded in 2006.
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Barefoot Stops Selling Direct to Bookstores
As part of its transition to a lifestyle company, the Cambridge, Mass.-based publisher terminated its contracts with sales reps.
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S&S Launching New SF Imprint, Simon451
Simon451 will publish titles in the subgenres of fantasy, dystopian, apocalyptic and the supernatural, beginning in October 2014.
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Graduation Edition of 'Lean In' Coming
Knopf is planning a special graduation edition of Sheryl Sandberg's bestseller, "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead<".
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Knewton Adds Cengage to Content Pool
Knewton, a company that specializes in adaptive learning technology that tracks student use and personalizes instructional content, has reached an agreement with Cengage Learning, an educational and professional publisher, to integrate Knewton software into Cengage’s higher education content.
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News Briefs: Week of January 13, 2014
Holiday retail sales dip at B&N, Nook sales plunge and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Time-Life Books Gets Set for a Return
Although Time Inc. began publishing books that combined the resources of its Time and Life magazines in 1961, Time-Life Books (T-L Books) was not officially established until 1964.