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Children's Art Auction Battles Through Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy has driven the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) from its office building in lower Manhattan, but ABFFE is continuing its preparations for a Holiday Children’s Art Auction that will launch on eBay on Nov. 27.
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Tracking Amazon: Nate Silver Can't Top Wimpy Kid
Despite all of the attention Nate Silver has received since correctly predicting the 2012 election, his book, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't, couldn't top Jeff Kinney's The Third Wheel, which is still Amazon's #1 bestseller.
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Leaver Asks Quarto Stakeholders to Unite and Move Forward
Following the shareholder vote that replaced Quarto Group cofounder and chief executive Laurence Orbach with Tim Chadwick, Quarto president and COO Marcus Leaver sent a letter to employees and other Quarto stakeholders urging all parties to unite behind him and the senior management team.
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Orbach Replaced by Chadwick at Quarto
At the special meeting of Quarto shareholders held today, company cofounder and CEO Laurence Orbach was removed as a director of the publishing company and replaced by Tim Chadwick.
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Tracking Amazon: Patriotic Books Rise, But So Do Christmas Books
The morning following Election Day saw, predictably, a rise in patriotic and political books on Amazon. But Christmas books also saw a spike in interest and, oddly enough, the two categories seem to be divided along format lines.
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Bellevue Literary Press Moves In with Perseus
With its offices at Bellevue Hospital “locked down” because of problems caused by Hurricane Sandy, Bellevue Literary Press has moved to temporary quarters in the offices of its distributor, Perseus Books Group.
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Media App Summit Set for December 3
Join PW and fellow publishers, developers, editors, and entrepreneurs at Media App Summit, December 3 in New York City.
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Pegasus Launches Classics Line With Open Road
Pegasus Books, the indie which already distributes its e-books through Open Road, is expanding its partnership with the digital publisher.
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Tracking Amazon: Amazon Prime Monthly Subscription Launches
Amazon has started offering a monthly subscription option for Amazon Prime, priced at $7.99. The yearly price is $79.
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News Briefs: Week of 11/5/12
Results Drop at McGraw-Hill and more
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Making the Penguin Random House Merger Work
The trick to making the Random House/Penguin Group merger work will be to create a publisher that can take advantage of the resources and economies of scale a company with revenue of $4 billion brings and combine that with an editorial approach that emphasizes close cooperation with authors, said the two men charged with forming Penguin Random House, in separate interviews with PW.
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Authors Guild Calls RH-Penguin Merger 'Unsettling'
In a letter sent to its members on Sunday, the Authors Guild weighed in on the forthcoming merger between Penguin and Random House, calling the impending creation of a megapublisher "unsettling."
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PW Up and Running
Publishers Weekly's offices and e-mail, both shut down for much of last week because of Superstorm Sandy, are both up and running.
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Publisher Coordinates Grassroots Efforts on Staten Island
Bywater Books publisher Michele Karlsberg is putting her skills as a book publicist to good use this week, coordinating relief efforts on Staten Island.
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Crown Expands Focus at Harmony
Harmony Books, an imprint at Random House's Crown Publishing Group, is being refocused.
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Fodor's Cancels 100 Hotel Awards Event
Fodor's planned event on November 13, to announce its list of 100 top hotels, has been canceled because the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, November 2
For a look at the stories we're talking about this week, listen here.
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Abingdon Goes With Ingram for Some Sales, Distribution
Abingdon Press has hired Ingram to handle its sales and distribution to ABA independents and some gift stores. It continues to handle its own sales and distribution to CBA stores, B&N, AWBC, and distributors.
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RH Postpones Open House
Random House has postponed its consumer open house. The one-day event, for readers eager to meet the house's authors, was scheduled for November, 2.
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The Bestselling Self-Published Kindle Books of 2012
Fifteen e-books with self-publishing origins are in Amazon’s Kindle top 100 overall for 2012.
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