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Toni Morrison Does First-Ever Google Plus Hangout Book Signing
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison will participate in a first-of-its-kind digital book signing and a Google+ Hangout on Air at the Google New York offices.
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News Briefs: Week of February 25, 2013
Indie Booksellers Sue Amazon, Big Six and more
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Podcast: RIP Sherlock Holmes
One scholar wants to put an end to Holmes as a money-maker for the Conan Doyle Estate. Listen here.
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Candlewick to Launch Big Picture Press
Candlewick Press, which began publishing the Ology series a decade ago, announced that it will be the U.S. publisher of a new imprint also from Templar, Big Picture Press, to debut this fall.
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Rachael Ray Gets Atria Imprint
After signing Rachael Ray away from Clarkson Potter in 2010, Atria Publishing has given the bestselling cookbook author her own imprint, Rachael Ray Books.
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Grand Central to More Than Double Forever Output
Grand Central Publishing said this morning that it plans to more than double the number of titles it releases in its romance publishing program over the next two years.
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Tracking Amazon: Dan Brown's 'Inferno' Cracks Top 10
It won't be published until May 14, but Dan Brown's Inferno jumped to #5 from #34 on Amazon's bestseller list on February 21, thanks to its cover reveal on Wednesday. The reveal had less of an impact on the Kindle edition which saw a smaller jump (#57 from #182), following the release of the cover.
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YA Webcast Set for February 19
Join PW for a Live Interactive Webcast today, February 19 at 2:00 p.m. EST, Building the Next Generation of YA Stars.
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Binc Opens Up Scholarships to Bookstore Employees
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation will accept applications from February 18 through April 18 for the Binc Foundation Scholarship program.
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News Briefs: Week of February 18, 2013
DoJ Approves RH, Penguin Merger and more
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Podcast: Publishing Looks into the Future
At the Tools of Change conference for 2013, to paraphrase William Gibson, the future is already here – and it was pretty evenly distributed among the many panels and workshops. Listen here.
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Europa Editions Goes Global with World Noir Imprint
Europa Editions has long been a publisher of renowned international crime fiction, but its newest imprint, World Noir, marks the publisher’s rededicated effort to the genre—with a distinctive look and personality.
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Nook Losses to Exceed 2012
Barnes & Noble reported late Wednesday that Nook EBITDA for its fiscal year ending at the end of April will be greater than in fiscal 2012 when the unit had an EBITDA loss of $262 million. B&N executives had expected Nook losses to be no worse than last year.
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Bestsellers: 'American Sniper' Jumps, 'Legend of Zelda' Plummets
Chris Kyle's American Sniper was the #1 bestseller on Nielsen BookScan, in the first full week of sales reporting following the author's death.
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What Should Authors Do in the Digital Age?
How to get discovered, how to not get overwhelmed by digital's opportunities, and when to use social media--these topics and many more were discussed at O'Reilly's Tools of Change Author (R)Evolution Day, which was cosponsored by Publishers Weekly.
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Self-Publishers Get E-book Conversion Through Bowker and DCL
Self-publishers who register through Bowker's MyIdentifiers.com Web site are now offered Data Conversion Laboratory's EPUB on Demand, the company's e-book conversion capability.
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Indie SF Press Lands Big Names for Anthology
The small indie science fiction press, JournalStone Publishing, has a new book with some big authors.
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Tracking Amazon: Oprah Effect Strikes Again
Northfield Publishing's The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman has already sold over 900,000 copies according to Nielsen BookScan, and that number will likely be very close to 1 million after the effects of Chapman's appearance February 10 on OWN's Life Class are tallied.
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Forecasting the Future: James McQuivey
While everyone knows that digital distribution and consumption has affected everything about the world we live in, James McQuivey is one of the people who has figured out exactly how the change works.
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News Briefs: Week of February 11, 2013
Macmillan Settles With DoJ and more