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Grey House Taking Over Major Broadcasting Database
Reference publisher Grey House Publishing has acquired the directory and database of the Broadcasting & Cable Industry, which has been published, most recently by Bowker, as the Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook. The publication is the standard source for station data in the U.S. and Canada.
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Tracking Amazon: Oprah Helps Breathnach
Cheryl Strayed isn't the only author Oprah Winfrey has been helping out with sales recently--Sarah Ban Breathnach was interviewed by Winfrey on June 8 on OWN.
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Book Boom
Different reports released by Bowker last week showed that the self-publishing craze is leading to an upsurge in the number of new titles available to the general public. According to Bowker’s annual measurement of the number of print titles produced, projected title output in 2011 was 347,178, up 6% from 2010. For the first time, in 2011 Bowker combined titles from self-publishers with titles from mainstream houses, and Bowker said that the gain in 2011 was entirely generated by the production from self-publishers.
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Wattpad Raises $17.3 Million
Wattpad announced June 5 that it has raised $17.3 million in new funding from Khosla Ventures, Union Square Ventures and Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang.
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Gaiman, Eggers Honor Bradbury in Tribute Book
Called Shadow Show, the book will be a collection of short stories from 26 authors honoring Bradbury and his contribution to the literary canon. The book will feature work from Dave Eggers, Neil Gaiman, and Margaret Atwood, among others.
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BEA 2012: IPG to Offer DRM-Free Option to Clients
IPG announced Tuesday that the Chicago-based book distribution company is offering its client publishers the option of selling their titles without DRM.
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Amazon Adds Over 3,000 Titles in Deal with Avalon Books
Amazon Publishing has significantly increased the size of its publishing program, acquiring publication rights from Avalon Books to more than 3,000 backlist titles.
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Distribution: PGW Adds Four
PGW has signed Entangled Publishing, Night Shade Books, Cameron + Company, and Yosemite Conservancy to distribution deals.
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News Briefs: Week of June 4, 2012
IPG and Amazon Agree and more
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Macmillan Puts Its Green Foot Forward
John Sargent is well-known in publishing circles for doing things a little differently than most CEOs (see his stance in the Department of Justice lawsuit over the agency pricing model), and that also applies to his approach to Macmillan’s environmental efforts. More than two years ago, Sargent named industry veteran and now consultant Bill Barry to review all of Macmillan’s operations with the goal of determining the most efficient ways to lower the company’s carbon footprint. In a meeting at Macmillan’s headquarters in the Flatiron Building last month, the two men discussed how, after reviewing reams of information that sometimes produce conflicting recommendations, they set a goal of reducing the company’s carbon footprint by 65% by 2019 from a 2009 baseline.
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Colbert Challenges 'PW'
On The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert examined on which bestseller list his book, I Am a Pole (And So Can You), belonged.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, June 1
The party that is BookExpo America prepares to welcome guests to New York City and even the growing donnybrook that is the Dept. of Justice price-fixing case against several major publishers can’t spoil the fun. Listen here.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Gone Girl' is Scorching Before Pub Date
Amazon's top preorder is Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, which is already garnering significant praise.
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Seventh Street Books Sets First List
Although Prometheus Books announced its new mystery/thriller imprint, Seventh Street Books, last September the company is using next week’s BookExpo America to give the imprint an official launch.
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Tracking Amazon: Hatfields & McCoys Books Fight Up the Charts
The three-part History Channel miniseries, Hatfields & McCoys, has led to a spike in sales of books about the famous feud between the two families.
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Distribution: Lerner Signs Red Chair Press, JR Comics
Lerner Publisher Services announced new partnerships with Red Chair Press and JR Comics to be the exclusive U.S. and Canadian distributor for both publishers beginning this fall. Red Chair Press is a children's illustrated books publisher and JR Comics is an independent publisher of classic Chinese stories.
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The Shades Juggernaut: 46, 26, 13
Sales of the Fifty Shades trilogy show no signs of slowing down. For the week ended May 27 sales rose for all three titles with Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed both seeing sales gains of 13% each at the outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan. Sales of Fifty Shades of Grey increased 7% over the prior week.
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Tracking Amazon: New 'Modernist Cuisine' Book Skyrockets
Though it won't be published until October, Modernist Cuisine at Home has already jumped to #130 on Amazon's bestseller list, from a previously unranked spot. The new cookbook is meant to make the elaborate contents of high-end cookbook Modernist Cuisine more accessible for home kitchens. It's priced at $140.
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HMH Adding Infographics to 'Best American' Series
Short stories. Travel writing. Comics. And now infographics? In a visual twist, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced it will release The Best American Infographics in fall 2013.
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