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First Two Familius Titles Land on Amazon’s Kindle Bestseller List
Familius, a digital publishing company launched this year by former Gibbs Smith CEO Christopher Robbins, released two titles on parenting that reached numbers one and five in Kindle's fatherhood category.
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Random House of Canada Launches Online Magazine and Digital-only Imprint
Random House of Canada is launching an online magazine and imprint for original e-publications as a part of a new digital strategy.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul Getting Into...Soup
The Chicken Soup brand is expanding to include food. The publisher, which specializes in inspirational books, is launching a line of comfort foods, starting with soup.
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Tracking Amazon: Navy Seal's Bin Laden Book Skyrockets
Dutton is touting Mark Owen's No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden as the first first-person account of the plot that killed Bin Laden.
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Gibbs Smith Launches Gift Line and New Website
Gibbs Smith has launched a new branded Web site, BabyLit.com, as well as a line of accompanying gift products.
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Macmillan To Distribute Page Street
Macmillan announced that it has signed publishing start-up Page Street Publishing in Essex, Mass., to its roster of sales and distribution clients, which includes Rodale and Bloomsbury USA.
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Steve Clemente Named President & CEO of Nebraska
Nebraska Book Company, which operates more than 250 college stores, announced that Steve Clemente has been promoted to president and CEO.
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Rally Held at Missouri Honoring Press As More Editors Resign
As the exodus of authors and editors from the University of Missouri Press escalates, a rally celebrating the press's past accomplishments took place yesterday.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Paterno' Slides Slightly
On its release date, as reviews begin to come in, Paterno by Joe Posnanski is ranked #36 on Amazon's bestseller chart.
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HarperCollins Canada Launches New Imprint
HarperCollins Canada launches new imprint, hires former Thomas Allen & Son publisher Patrick Crean
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n+1 Partners with Espresso Book Machine
Literary magazine n+1 has joined On Demand Books' Espresso Book Machine network.
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Tracking Amazon: Zelda Topples 50 Shades
It doesn't come out until January 29, 2013, but The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia (Dark Horse) has already reached #1 on Amazon's bestseller list. The book is a collection of historical information and art on the bestselling video game series.
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News Briefs: Week of August 20, 2012
Barton in Talks Over ‘Jefferson Lies’ and more
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The New Crown: Smaller and, RH Says, More Focused
When Markus Dohle took over as chairman of Random House in 2008, he set about reorganizing a number of things, including the restructuring of the Crown Publishing Group.
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Hunger Games Surpasses Harry Potter
Amazon announced August 17 that the Hunger Games trilogy has outsold the seven Harry Potter books, making Suzanne Collins' series the bestselling book series of all time on Amazon, taking into consideration print and Kindle e-book sales combined.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, August 17
This week: Crown's makeover and an engaging look at what's gone awry in American zoning codes and road planning.
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Tracking Amazon: Recalled Jefferson Book Reaches #8
If you thought Thomas Nelson's decision to recall all copies of David Barton's The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson was the last thing you'd hear about the book--think again.
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Second Editor of a Series at Missouri Press Resigns
Historian William Foley tendered his resignation yesterday as editor of the University of Missouri Press' Missouri Biography Series.
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Open Road Takes Koontz Children's Book Digital
Open Road will digitally publish the first novel for young readers from Dean Koontz, Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages, to be released September 4.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Paterno' Jumps Up Charts
Jerry Posnanski's Paterno comes out August 21, but it's already up to #30 on Amazon's bestseller list.