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Consortium Adds Five
Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (Consortium), has added five new clients: Engine Books, Gilgamesh Publishing, Karadi Tales, Prospect Park Books, and Text Publishing Company. The agreements with the clients will begin on January 1.
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New York Publishing Struggling to Get Back Online Post-Sandy
The wind and rain may have died down in New York City, but the metropolis is far from recovered.
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NYC Indie Publishers Deal With Aftermath of Sandy
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, New York City indie publishers are improvising and dealing with various problems ranging from flooding and power outages to having staffers stranded at their homes, or outside of the city.
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Tracking Amazon: The State of Preorders
As of October 31, Amazon's top 100 saw nine preorder books place, including the #1 book, The Third Wheel (Wimpy Kid #7) by Jeff Kinney.
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Hurricane Sandy: NYC Publishers' Status After the Storm
Not surprisingly, Hurricane Sandy left most people in the New York City publishing world at home on Tuesday. Here is a list of different houses' status. We will try to update this throughout the day, as more information surfaces.
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Dohle Addresses Booksellers, Authors and Agents About Merger
CEO of Random House, Markus Dohle, has sent three letters--to booksellers, authors and agents--addressing the momentous news about his publishing company merging with Penguin.
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Tracking Amazon: A New-Look Top 10
After more than a year of being dominated by Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey books, Amazon's top 10 bestsellers look, for the most part, new and different as of October 29, with no title exceeding 227 days in the top 100. The #1 book is Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, which has only spent 21 days in the top 100. Click through for the top 10.
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Makinson's Letter On Penguin-Random House Merger
Pearson chairman and CEO John Makinson sent the following letter about the merger of Random House and his company's trade publishing unit, Penguin Book Group:
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News Corp. Said to Ready Penguin Offer
The U.K.’s Sunday Times has reported that News Corp., parent company of HarperCollins, is preparing to make an offer to acquire Penguin Group.
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News Briefs: Week of October 29, 2012
Amazon’s Big Third-Quarter Loss and more
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Random Penguins?
Although a Random House/ Penguin Group merger is not a done deal yet, the fact that Penguin’s parent company, Pearson, issued a statement confirming that it is in negotiations with Random’s parent, Bertelsmann, about some sort of combination was more than enough to get the industry speculating about what such a move would mean for all parts of the industry.
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Downsized, Not Dead
In addition to Free Press coming under the new S&S Publishing Group, the restructuring moved Touchstone from the responsibility of Levin to the Scribner group under Susan Moldow, while the Atria Publishing group added Howard Books.
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Amazon Has Big Third Quarter Loss
Amazon posted a third quarter net loss of $274 million on a sales increase of 27%, to $13.8 billion.
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Consortium Signs Three Publishers for Digital Distribution
Consortium has announced three new Constellation (digital only) clients: CarTech, Inc., Sunrise River Press, and Adventure Publications.
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Penguin-Random House Merger Talks Ignite Twitter
When word broke that two of the biggest publishing houses might merge, the Twittersphere lit up with a barrage of snarky comments and panicked assessments of the possible future.
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Liveright Gets Excited About Poetry for 2013
While Norton's relaunched Liveright imprint under Bob Weil is mostly focused on nonfiction and edgy mainstream fiction, the imprint's director of publicity Peter Miller is working to build excitement around poetry for the upcoming season by building buzz around its first debut poet: Columbia MFA graduate Adam Fitzgerald.
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Four Debuts Crack the Top 10
For the week ending October 21 on Nielsen BookScan, the overall bestsellers chart looked very different: four of the top 10 titles were debuts.
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Amazon Introduces Japanese Kindle Store and Kindle Paperwhite
Amazon.co.jp has announced the Kindle Paperwhite is heading to Japan, shipping on November 19 and selling for ¥12,980.
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Self-Publishing Sees Triple-Digit Growth Since 2007
The number of self-published books produced annually in the U.S. has nearly tripled, growing 287% since 2006, with 235,625 print and e titles released in 2011, according to a new analysis of data from Bowker.
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S&S Reorganizes Adult Group; Levin to Leave Free Press
Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy has reorganized the company’s adult publishing imprints into four main groups, resulting in the departure of Free Press publisher Martha Levin.
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