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Tracking Amazon: Oprah Catapults 'The Untethered Soul'
After being interviewed by Oprah on August 6, Michael A. Singer's The Untethered Soul (New Harbinger Publications) has jumped to #5 from #52 on Amazon's bestseller list, and to #36 from #372 on Kindle.
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Fitzhenry & Whiteside acquires Whitecap Books
Fitzhenry & Whiteside buys a culinary imprint, Vancouver's Whitecap Books.
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News Briefs: Week of August 6, 2012
S&S Sales Up But Earnings Drop and more
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Is Publishing Ready for Agile?
“Agile” is becoming more of a buzzword in publishing circles as companies look to harness the new possibilities digital is providing, but many are still unsure whether the agile model is right.
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DoJ Files Motion Asking for Court Approval of E-book Agreement
As expected, the Department of Justice late Friday filed a motion with Judge Denise Cote asking her to approve the final judgment that the government reached with Hachette, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins in the DoJ lawsuit that charged the three with colluding with Apple to fix e-book prices.
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The Best Books of Fall 2012
We've combed through hundreds of books to find our favorites of what's on tap for fall 2012. There's a little of everything here, from a novel that could just be this generation's Catch-22, to grand new biographies of two very different types of founding fathers, to the return of Peter Rabbit.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Eat to Live' Skyrockets Following 'Live with Kelly'
Dr. Joel Fuhrman appeared on Live With Kelly earlier this week for his book Eat to Live. Following the appearance the mass market edition of the book has jumped to #8 from #1,817, and the paperback has jumped to #32 from #92. The Kindle edition is also performing well, up to #147 from #774.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, August 3
"If you’re listening to us today, we can reasonably assume two things – one, you love books, and two, you’ve seen the number of places to buy books in your community shrink."
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Call for IBPA Cover Package
The deadline is August 6 for members of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) to have the opportunity to display titles on the front cover of Publishers Weekly in the August 27, 2012. If you would like to participate, please e-mail Terry Nathan at terry@ibpa-online.org, requesting details for the PW Front Cover package.
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Trevor Paglen’s 'The Last Pictures' To Be Launched Into Perpetual Orbit
In a unique co-publishing arrangement between University of California Press and New York's Creative Time Books, artist and scholar Trevor Paglen has written and edited The Last Pictures, a collection of 100 photographs that speak to questions in politics, science, and art.
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Wimpy Kid Partners with Walmart
In preparation for the latest theatrical release, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, on August 3, Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products has launched a national retail campaign with Walmart.
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Tracking Amazon: Gore Vidal Books Jump
On the day following his death, four of Gore Vidal's books have seen substantial sales increases on Amazon: The City and the Pillar (#152 from #3,117), Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (#169 from #2,927), Julian (#185 from #3,059), and Lincoln (#381 from #3,411).
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Weekly Print Sales Drop 32% from 2011, Borders to Blame
For the week ending July 29, total print sales were down 32% from the same week in 2011, due to the huge sales boom from Borders's liquidation sales in July 2011.
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Tracking Amazon: 'The Physician' Tops 50 Shades on Kindle
It takes a lot of e-books to top the 50 Shades trilogy, but the Kindle Daily Deal for The Physician by Noah Gordon pushed it to #1 on July 31 and into the morning of August 1. The deal dropped the e-book from $11.99 to $1.99, and moved it up the charts from its initial position of #11,978.
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Fernald Replaces Viehman at Down East Enterprise
Down East Enterprise has announced that group publisher John Viehman has left, and that his position will be filled by CEO Bob Fernald.
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Hiptype: Analytics for E-books
Hiptype, the new platform for data-driven book publishing, will launch this week—providing publishers’ e-books with engagement and demographic data. The goal of Hiptype, according to co-founder James Levy, is to help clients determine the "DNA" of a successful book.
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Distribution: NBN Picks Up Augsburg Fortress
Augsburg Fortress, publisher of bibles and congregational resources, has signed with National Book Network International to handle its distribution.
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Tracking Amazon: Joan Rivers Gets Boost from Colbert
On July 30, Joan Rivers appeared on The Colbert Report for her book I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me (Berkley). On July 31, the book was ranked #57 on Amazon's bestseller list, up from #2,042. For Kindle, the e-book jumped to #139 from #1,802.
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Scholastic Hits Certified Paper Goal Early
Scholastic upped its usage of Forest Stewardship Council paper to 53.3% of all paper purchases in 2011, a figure that exceeded its goal of having 35% of paper be FSC certified by 2012.
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Digital Pricing Strategies Webcast Set for July 31
Bob Pritchett and Joe Wikert will present the "Digital Pricing Strategies & Lessons Learned" webcast July 31 at 1 pm ET, as part of O'Reilly's TOC series.
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