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News Briefs: Week of October 14, 2013
Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature and more.
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Vintage Heads Back to Press on Munro Backlist
In response to Alice Munro's receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, the Canadian writer's U.S. paperback publisher, Vintage, announced that it will be reprinting 100,000 copies of Munro's backlist.
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PGW Adds Patagonia Books; Seven Other Clients
Patagonia's list includes titles on wilderness, wildlife, and outdoor sports, and books by company founder Yvonne Chouinard.
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'Wonder' Hits Million-Copy Milestone
Random House has announced that R.J. Palacio’s middle-grade novel, Wonder, has sold one million copies in print and digital formats in North America since its February 2012 release by Knopf Books for Young Readers.
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Taking a Chance on Robert Galbraith
When David Shelley, publisher of Little, Brown U.K., arrived at a lunch to meet a potential new author named Robert Galbraith, he instead found a blonde woman sitting next to agent Neil Blair. "When she turned round I had the surprise of my life. She said, ‘I'm Jo.'"
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HBG Partners with HUK for E-book Distribution
Hachette Book Group has inked a deal with its sister company, Hachette U.K., that allows the publishers to distribute each other's e-books through their respective e-book retailers.
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S&S and Yilin Press Enter Distribution and Publishing Agreement
Under one of the more comprehensive trade deals with a Chinese publishing house, S&S will distribute e-books of a broad cross-section of Yilin Press’s Mandarin language titles.
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One Year Later, Coady’s Atavist Books Set to Launch
Last September, when it was announced that media mogul Barry Diller, film producer Scott Rudin, and former Picador publisher Frances Coady were forming a multiplatform book publishing company, Coady promised it would be “not the usual model.”
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News Briefs: Week of October 7, 2013
Apple Appeals Price-Fixing Decision and more.
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The PW Publishing Industry Salary Survey, 2013
The Publishers Weekly salary survey is back. How well does your salary stack up to the industry average?
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Podcast: Book Business Sees Positive Side
Today in publishing, where so much about the book business is uncertain, positive thinking is surprisingly widespread among employees.
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McGraw-Hill Professional Introduces Webinar Series
"Work Smarter" will bring together leading business authors who will share career insights and strategies.
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S&S In Final Phases of Homepage Redesigns
Simon & Schuster, which has been redesigning the homepages on its Web sites, announced that it is now in the final phase of what has been a roll-out process.
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Former D&M Publisher and COO Launch New Agency
Page Two Strategies is the latest of several new ventures rising from the ashes of Canada's indie D&M Publishers.
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Hard Case Crime to Publish Early Crichton Thrillers
The author penned eight novels under the pseudonym John Lange during his time at Harvard Medical School.
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Dark Horse Switches Book Trade Distribution to RHPS
Dark Horse Books will switch its general book trade distribution to Random House Publisher Services beginning June 1, 2014.
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SMP Partners with Special Ops Publisher
Marc Resnick, editor at St. Martin's Press, has set up a partnership with Special Operations Forces Report (Sofrep.com) to publish original e-books targeted at those focused on the field of special operations.
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PRH Creates Unified Audio Group
The group will be headed by Amanda D'Acierno, who will assume the role of senior v-p, publisher at PRH Audio, Fodor's and Living Language.