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Elsevier Acquires Book Assets of Gulf Publishing
Elsevier today has acquired certain book assets of Gulf Publishing Company.
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Major Redesign for Scholastic Book Clubs
Scholastic announced that the school book club flyers traditionally formatted to serve multiple grades will now arrive in classrooms with grade-specific monthly book selections
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Consolidation in Coloring Books as Bendon Acquires Dalmatian
Bendon, Inc., has acquired Dalmatian Press, LLC, from Anderson Press Ltd. The merger creates a value-publishing giant that will ship 200 million coloring, activity, story, board, educational, and other books per year, effectively doubling Bendon’s size.
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New Bowker Study Charts Latest Trends
The increase in online retailers’ share of book spending and the penetration levels of e-books in different consumer book categories are some of the trends found in 2013 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review, a new study just released by R.R. Bowker.
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Lambda Announces New President and Vice-President
The Lambda Literary Foundation has named S. Chris Shirley president of the board of trustees, with Susan Atkins assuming the role of v-p.
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News Briefs: Week of August 5, 2013
DoJ’s Apple Proposals and more
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Michaels to Remain as BISG Chair
Ken Michaels will remain chair of BISG for his full two-year term, ending September 2014.
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From the Archives: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
To complement our feature on books commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, here's an essay that appeared in the first issue of PW to publish after the assassination.
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Dundurn Press Buys Canadian Thomas Allen Publishers
Toronto-based Thomas Allen & Son has sold its publishing arm to Canadian indie Dundurn Press.
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Kindle Worlds Adds Vonnegut License
Amazon Publishing announced that it has secured a new Kindle Worlds license from RosettaBooks for the books of Kurt Vonnegut.
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Sourcebooks Signs Anne Geddes
Sourcebooks has announced that it has signed photographer Anne Geddes for a new line of licensed books and products for its children's and gift groups.
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Suvudu Launches New Writing Community
Suvudu, a Random House online destination for science fiction and fantasy fans established in 2008, announced the launch of a new writing community for its users, Suvudu Universe.
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Mysterious Marketing Campaign for 'Pocket Scavenger'
Perigee announced a secretive monthlong campaign to promote Keri Smith's scavenging journal, The Pocket Scavenger, published in May.
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Boston Publicist Turns Author
Sandra Goroff experiences the other side of the book business with the fall publication of her debut collection of photographs.
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Miller Makes Three Deals for New Flatiron Books Imprint
Bob Miller, who joined Macmillan earlier this month as the head of a new nonfiction division, has acquired the first three titles for the unit, which has been named Flatiron Books.
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News Briefs: Week of July 29, 2013
Penguin Goes Out on High Note and more
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Podcast: A Book For All Seasons?
In the midst of “summer reading” season comes word that another longstanding bookselling tradition may be headed for the digital dustbin. Listen here.
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Women's Prize Winner to Publish E-Book Original Short Story
Madeline Miller will be releasing an e-book original short story on Aug. 13 with HarperCollins.
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Slow Build for 'Cuckoo's' Print Sales
The Cuckoo's Calling, the book that has taken the media and publishing world by storm, sold just 3,630 copies nationwide for the week ending July 21 as Hachette worked to get print copies to retailers.
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Red Hen Takes to Kickstarter for 20th Anniversary Anthology
The "Poetry Prom" festival in Pasadena on August 3 will celebrate the launch of Red Hen's Kickstarter campaign to fund the press's commemorative anthology.