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  • News Corp. Vote Set for June 11

    HarperCollins parent company News Corp. has set June 11 as the day for shareholders to vote on the proposal to split the media conglomerate into two separate companies.

  • HarperCollins Plans Digital Original Mystery Line, Witness

    HarperCollins’ William Morrow imprint has announced plans for Witness, a “digital-original” mystery, suspense and thriller line.

  • News Briefs: Week of April 29, 2013

    Amazon Sales Up and more

  • Transformative Time for Tin House

    Over the past decade and a half Tin House magazine, which began publishing in spring 1999, and Tin House Books, which started as an imprint with Bloomsbury in 2002 before becoming an independent press in 2005, have carved out a niche in the small press world.

  • Reagan Arthur Takes Over at Little, Brown

    Coming from the West Coast, Reagan Arthur was not always surrounded by people who thought much of a career in books.

  • Random House's Hydra Imprint Announces Debut Titles

    Hydra, the first digital science fiction and fantasy imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, announced today the acquisition of three new titles for its digital publishing program. All works were acquired by Hydra associate editor Sarah Peed. The titles are: Blackwater Lights by Michael M. Hughes, The Faceless One by Mark Onspaugh, and Apocalyptic Organ Grinder by William Todd Rose.

  • Podcast: Who Will Save Our Books?

    A bestselling author has sent out an S-O-S for the book trade. Last week James Patterson took out ads on the cover of Publisher Weekly, in The New York Times Book Review, and in Kirkus asking the questions, "Who will save our books? Our bookstores? Our libraries?" Listen here.

  • ABFFE Children's Book Art Silent Auction To Honor Sendak

    The Annual Children's Book Art Silent Auction and Reception at BookExpo America to benefit the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression will feature a special tribute to Maurice Sendak, the beloved author and illustrator of classic children's titles and a passionate defender of free speech.

  • Patterson Sees Ads as a Wake Up Call

    James Patterson, frustrated at the lack of direction in the future of books conversation, took out ads in PW, The New York Times Book Review and Kirkus this past weekend.

  • Mud Luscious Press Closes Its Doors

    Citing unexpected growth that produced a financial shortfall, Mud Luscious Press, a seven-year-old small press in Ft. Collins, Colo., closed its doors Monday.

  • News Briefs: Week of April 22, 2013

    PubMatch, CCC Partner and more

  • Jeff Gomez Goes West to Byliner

    After 15 years working in traditional publishing in New York City—the last five as v-p, online consumer sales and marketing, at Penguin—Jeff Gomez moved to San Francisco to take a job with Byliner, a digital short-content publishing venture, as head of writer marketing.

  • Podcast: Amazon: Friend or Foe?

    Over at the London Book Fair, attendees have argued the future of copyright, and debated the question: “Amazon: Friend or Foe?” Listen here.

  • Univ. of South Carolina Press Launches Young Palmetto Books

    The University of South Carolina Press's new children's imprint, Young Palmetto Books, focuses on series books with a local angle.

  • Scholastic's New Technology Programs Aimed at the Common Core

    Scholastic’s newest generation of educational technology programs are all designed to meet the requirements of the Common Core State Standards.

  • 'The Four Agreements' Gets a Boost From Oprah’s 'Super Soul Sunday'

    Author appearance on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday lifts The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz back up to number one Amazon spot.

  • Chris Kyle E-Book Releasing April 23

    Reagan Arthur, publisher of Little, Brown and Company, announced today that Little, Brown has acquired The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle: American Sniper, Navy SEAL, an original e-book by journalist Michael J. Mooney to be published on April 23.

  • Bancroft Press: A Baltimore Maverick

    In 20 years of publishing, Baltimore's Bancroft Press has produced a body of work that ranges from Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s first novel, Those Who Trespass, to its just-released first picture book.

  • Publishing Hackathon Aims to Solve Discoverability

    To address the challenge of book discovery in a digital world, a group of media industry participants led by the Perseus Books Group, Librify, BookExpo, The AlleyNYC and William Morris Endeavor (WME) will conduct the industry’s first-ever hackathon, a collaborative digital programming event.

  • Bookmasters to Distribute Spanish Edition of Book on New Pope

    Javier Fernández Malumbres’s book on the life of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Francisco, Nuevo Papa (Francis, New Pope), will be published on April 23 in paperback original and e-book by Madrid-based Edibesa.

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