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News Briefs: Week of November 11, 2013
Booksellers Say No to Amazon Source and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Minnesota ‘Legacy Fund’ Grows Nonprofit Literary Presses
In 2008, Minnesotans voted to support the arts through the creation of the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund (also called the “Legacy Fund”), which stipulates that 19.75% of the revenues raised from state sales taxes for 25 years are to be disbursed to arts and cultural organizations, programs, and projects.
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Agate Publishing Marks 10 Years
Eclectic, independent Evanston, Ill.–based Agate Publishing is celebrating its first decade in business this year by highlighting two imprints formed last year.
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Amazon Publishing: More Than Bricks-and-Mortar
Daphne Durham, who is stepping into the role of publisher for Amazon’s adult trade and children’s imprints as Larry Kirshbaum departs, said the company is “delighted” with the sales performance of the unit’s titles to date.
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S&S Pulls Benghazi Book
After allegations were made about the legitimacy of the author's account of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya last September, Simon & Schuster has halted publication and sale of The Embassy House, by Sgt. Morgan Jones and Damien Lewis.
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HBG Hires MK for Ad Buying
MK Creative Media Marketing will handle HBG's media planning and buying, resulting in the dissolution at year's end of the house's internal ad buying team.
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Sales, Earnings Up in Third Quarter at S&S
Simon & Schuster posted a sales increase of 7%, to $224 million, while operating profits increased about 8% to $41 million for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013.
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Tin House Reissues 'Low Down' in Anticipation of Film
Daughter's memoir about jazz great Joe Albany will release as film starring John Hawkes.
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PRH Starts Work on Unifying Credit, Customer Service Units
Penguin Random House has begun work on creating unified credit and customer service functions for its American business that will be based in Westminster, Md. which currently houses those operations for Random House.
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RH Mondadori Gets New Name
It will now be known as Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.
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Publisher's Off-Broadway Play Opens
A play written by Merle Good, publisher of Good Books, began off-Broadway performances on November 2, with an official opening night set for November 17.
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News Briefs: Week of November 4, 2013
August Bookstore Sales Dropped 4.5% and more.
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Mining the ‘Minecraft’ Phenomenon
If you’ve never heard of the video game phenomenon Minecraft, you’ll find out all you’ll need to know in a new book about the game's creation.
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Podcast: Top Ten Books Picked
The trick-or-treat sugar rush has yet to fade, and the holiday gift season already looms. At Publishers Weekly, the editorial elves have put together the years's best books list. Click here to listen.
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'PW' Reveals 101 Best Books of 2013
The best books of 2013, as picked by PW's reviews editors in fiction, nonfiction, comics, romance, mystery, religion, and more.
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Da Capo Goes Back to Press for Lou Reed
After Lou Reed's death on Sunday, Da Capo Press is hoping fans may want to turn to books to remember the influential rocker.
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Picador Set to Launch Modern Classics
Picador will debut its Modern Classics line with the November 5 publication of a Jonathan Franzen's 1988 novel, Twenty-Seventh City.
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Vintage Classics to Publish Another Williams Novel
Following the runaway success of forgotten classic, Stoner, earlier this year, Vintage Classics will publish Butcher’s Crossing, a third novel from the author John Williams.
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HBG Employees Show Their Artistic Side
Editors, designers, and publicists spend their days refining and supporting a writer’s art—his or her book.
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For Major Publishers, Will Print No Longer Be the Norm?
The idea that any standard deal from a major publisher guarantees a print format release—which was previously a foregone conclusion—is something agents are no longer taking for granted, with some expressing concern that the big houses are starting to hedge on print edition commitments in contracts.
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