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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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Tracking Amazon: Self-Pubbed Romance Sales Fall Following Penguin Sale
Samantha Young's On Dublin Street spent weeks atop Amazon's Kindle chart, which culminated in a seven-figure sale to Penguin earlier this month.
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Vancouver’s D&M Publishers Files for Bankruptcy Protection
D&M Publishers, one of Canada's largest independent houses, has filed for bankruptcy protection but will continue to operate while it restructures.
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Steve Smith Named Publisher of Oasis Audio
Steve Smith has been named the new publisher of Oasis Audio, following the resignation of Tammy Faxel.
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INscribe Expands Global Reach
INscribe Digital has announced new distribution deals with a number of international publishers.
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News Briefs: Week of October 22, 2012
Canadian Booksellers Vote on Merger and more
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Melville House Turns 10
In some ways, Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians are the prototypical independent publishers. Known for publishing highly regarded books, not to mention a few bestsellers, their small indie piress, Melville House, has just turned 10.
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Yan’s Nobel a Win for Arcade, Skyhorse
The selection of Mo Yan as the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature surprised most Americans in and out of publishing, but one man who would not have been caught off guard is the late Dick Seaver, the cofounder of Arcade Publishing, which published five of the author’s novels.
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'Casual Vacancy' Sales Top 1 Million
Hachette, along with its UK publishing partner Little, Brown Book Group UK, are reporting that sales of J.K. Rowling's new book, The Casual Vacancy, have exceeded 1 million copies in the English language.
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'Dropping Acid' Jumps Up
Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure, a steady seller since it was first released in September 2010 by a company formed by Dr. Jamie Koufman, hit #23 on the Nielsen BookScan hardcover nonfiction bestseller list after Dr. Koufman was featured on the Dr. Oz Show.
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Harlequin Plans Contemporary Romance Imprint
Harlequin will introduce a new contemporary romance imprint next year, KISS, which the publisher describes as “fun, flirty and sensual romances.”
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News Briefs: Week of October 15, 2012
Ruling Backs Google Scans and more.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday October 12, 2012
We parse through the HathiTrust case and discuss the great book, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Listen here.
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CodeMantra and ePubDirect Announce Partnership
CodeMantra, a global supplier of publishing software and services, has reached an agreement with ePubDirect, a worldwide distributor of e-book content, to offer publishers an indirect distribution model.
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Disney Overhauls Paper Sourcing Policy
The Disney Company said Thursday that it is overhauling its paper sourcing policy in a change that will maximize recycled content and fibers sourced from Forest Stewardship Council-certified operations and eliminate paper products containing "irresponsibly harvest fiber, such as fiber from High Conservation Value Areas."
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Random House Plans Consumer Open House for November
In the latest example of a publisher going direct to readers, Random House will host a day-long event at its New York City headquarters that it hopes will attract 200 or so readers.
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Harper To Implement Global Publishing System
HarperCollins is to roll out a new global publishing system, which it claims is "one of the largest undertakings of its kind to be implemented by a trade publisher."
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Riordan, O'Reilly Post Huge Debuts
Rick Riordan's The Mark of Athena was the #1 bestseller by a wide margin for the week ending October 7. The book sold 240,000 copies, more than double the #2 bestseller, Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly, which sold 118,000 copies in its first week.
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Rinaldi to Oversee New Lifestyle Imprint at Harper, HarperWave
Karen Rinaldi, who joined HarperCollins in May without a clearly defined role at the publisher, has been given a formal job; she will be overseeing a new health and wellness imprint called HarperWave, which will be housed within the Harper group.
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Writers Groups Want Publisher-Google Terms Made Public
The American Society of Journalists and Authors, the National Writers Union, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America are calling on publishers and Google to make all the settlement terms public.
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