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RHPS Begins Workshop Series for Clients
Random House Publisher Services announced the launch of RHPS Ideas Exchange, an ongoing series of workshops and seminars for client publishers.
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Tracking Amazon: Richard Scarry Books See Spike
Three of Richard Scarry's books made leaps into Amazon's top 100: Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever! (#1,240 to #80), Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town (#1,056 to #98), and Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (#279 to #54).
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Christopher Robbins Launches Familius Digital Publishing
Publishing veteran Christopher Robbins has started Familius, a digital publishing company based in Salt Lake City.
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Titanic Centennial Marked by 98 New Books
According to Bowker's Books In Print, 98 books (in print and e-books) on the Titanic have been brought to market in 2012 in anticipation of the disaster's April centennial.
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Earnings Rise at Random House
Despite a 4.3% decline in revenue, EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) rose 6.9% at Random House in 2011, parent company Bertelsmann reported this morning.
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Print Sales Held Up in January
Fears that a surge in sales of new digital reading devices over the holidays would result in plunging print trade sales in January proved unfounded, according to AAP’s newly revised monthly sales report.
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Octopus Buys Ticktock Entertainment
The U.K.-based Octopus Publishing Group has acquired the business and publishing assets of Ticktock Entertainment Ltd, the children’s nonfiction publisher.
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Chinese Publisher Grows with Help of Western Titles
Since the China Publishing Group Corp. was founded in 2006 in Beijing, the publishing house has grown from three employees and a handful of titles to a staff of 45 with plans to release 100 titles this year.
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Writers House Signs with Argo Navis
Writers House is the latest literary agency to sign on to Perseus Books Group’s Argo Navis Author Service program.
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Tracking Amazon: Cookbooks Take Over Kindle
On the morning of March 26, a staggering 32 cookbooks were in Amazon's top 35 Kindle Movers & Shakers, including the #1 title, The Everything Mediterranean Cookbook by Dawn Altomari-Rathjen and Jennifer Bendelius.
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New Female Novelists Draw Plaudits
This spring and summer readers will see a healthy dose of first-time efforts from (young) female authors. A number of these titles are drawing strong early word-of-mouth, as well as solid reviews. A look at of few of the debuts that have people talking.
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Crime Magazine 'Grift' Debuts
Grift Magazine, a new crime fiction publication that offers a mix of essays, interviews, and short fiction, debuted last week.
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News Briefs: Week of March 26, 2012
Hastings Making Product Shifts and more.
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Godine to Publish Restored Werfel Classic
Best known for The Song of Bernadette (1941), which was turned into an Oscar-winning movie, Jewish writer Franz Werfel (1890–1945) was also the author of one of the most popular Book-of-the-Month Club titles ever, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. First released in 1933, the work is a historical novel based on the Turkish deportation and massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. Viking Press sold more than 34,000 copies of the 817-page novel, translated by Geoffrey Dunlop, in the first two weeks of its release. Three decades later, when David Godine was at BOMC in the late ’70s, he said that it was still selling briskly.
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Correction: New 2011 Facts & Figures for Hardcover Sales
The entire corrected Hardcover list and revised introduction can be found here.
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Schnittman to Head Sales and Marketing at HBG
Hachette Book Group has appointed Evan Schnittman to the newly created role of executive v-p, chief marketing and sales officer.
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Tracking Amazon: Healthy Variety in Preorders
Though the Amazon top 100 has a tendency to skew toward nonfiction, the genres and topics to be found in preordered books shows a healthy variety, from memoir to children's books to comics.
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Connecticut Says Scholastic Liable for Club Sales Tax
As of February 29, 2012, Scholastic raised its sales tax accrual by $11.6 million, a change that led to the company’s net loss rising to $10.3 million for the quarter from $3.2 million.
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Pegasus Expands Internationally
New York independent publisher Pegasus Books will begin publishing its titles in the U. K., Australia and New Zealand with the launch of their spring-summer list, the company said this morning.
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Tracking Amazon: The Huge Benefit of Low Kindle Pricing
Far more than the print bestseller list, the top of the Kindle chart is consistently filled with low-priced titles. The three titles in Michael Wallace's Righteous series (priced at $2.99, $3.19, and $3.19) have all made it into the Kindle top 10. The three books, published by Thomas & Mercer, are ranked #5 (The Righteous), #6 (Mighty and Strong), and #8 (The Wicked).
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