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  • David Ebershoff: It’s Not Just About the Pulitzers

    David Ebershoff has had a good year. In April he achieved publishing history—or, at least carved out a footnote—joining elite company as an editor with two Pulitzer Prize–winning books on his list in the same year.

  • The New HarperCollins

    With the “new” News Corp. slated to become a stand-alone corporation at the end of June, executives from the company made a presentation before investors in New York in late May and again in Australia on June 5 talking about where the various subsidiaries in the group—which includes HarperCollins—stand and what their growth prospects are.

  • Podcast: When Pirates Ruled America

    Everything you need to know about the e-book price-fixing trial. Listen here.

  • Curbside Splendor to Launch Imprint

    Curbside Splendor, a cutting-edge Chicago small press that will be distributed by Consortium as of June, is launching in spring 2014 Dark House, a neo-noir and speculative fiction imprint.

  • Crown Shifts Watson-Guptill, Amphoto, Potter Craft

    Crown Publishing Group president and publisher Maya Mavjee continues to fine-tune the division’s organizational structure.

  • HarperCollins Launches BookSmash Challenge for Digital Innovators

    HarperCollins announced the launch of The BookSmash Challenge, a four-month-long contest that challenges developers to create new digital products that “break the binding” and re-imagine the book.

  • S&S's XOXO After Dark Goes Live

    Pocket Books has introduced XOXO After Dark, a newly refashioned site tied to Pocket After Dark, its online community that showcases romance, urban fantasy, and women’s fiction.

  • S&S’s Reidy is Next at the Apple Trial

    S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy was feisty and contentious at the Apple trial, often challenging the intent of the government’s questions or offering unsolicited interpretations of its language and phrasing.

  • iBookstore E-book Bestsellers: Week Ending June 3, 2013

    Apple has started to make available the weekly top 10 selling e-books in its iBookstore with Inferno appearing #1.

  • Bookstores and Booksellers Fight First Amendment Violation

    Bookstores, newsstands and two bookseller organizations filed suit Monday to block enforcement of a law that violates the First Amendment rights of retailers to display magazines that focus on marijuana and their customers’ right to browse those publications.

  • Penguin's David Shanks Testifies at Apple Trial

    Looking less than happy, Penguin Group USA CEO David Shanks testified and reluctantly acknowledged a succession of e-mails and calls that appear to show him and other Penguin executives acting in concert with his fellow Big Six CEOs to use the move to the agency model to raise e-book prices above the $9.99 price point.

  • Skyhorse, Start Complete Acquisition of Night Shade

    Night Shade Books, which began selling its assets in April, has been officially acquired by Skyhorse Publishing and Start Publishing.

  • Chinese Authorities Clear Penguin Random House

    The Chinese antitrust authority MOFCOM has cleared the planned merger of Penguin Group and Random House without conditions.

  • News Briefs: Week of June 3, 2013

    Suchomel Heads New Perseus Unit and more

  • Islandport Broadens Focus, Grows List

    Fourteen-year-old Islandport Press is growing in more ways than one.

  • Podcast: Stressed About Books

    Inside BEA and a preview of the price-fixing case. Listen here.

  • Capstone Donates Books to Oklahoma Tornado Victims

    Capstone will donate one book to the Moore schools affected by the Oklahoma tornado for every book purchased through its Web site.

  • 'Inferno' Tops Hosseini

    Dan Brown's Inferno easily took #1 on Nielsen BookScan for the week ending May 26, selling 211,000 copies and bringing its two-week total to 580,000.

  • Simon & Schuster to Begin Publishing in Canada

    Long shut out by foreign investment rules, Simon & Schuster Canada has won government approval to start publishing Canadian books in Canada.

  • Hachette Brings Audiobooks to Blind and Handicapped

    Hachette announced it will provide unabridged audiobook recordings free of charge to the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), part of the Library of Congress (LOC).

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