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Tracking Amazon: Breitbart's 'Righteous Indignation' Skyrockets Following His Death
Less than 24 hours after his death, Andrew Breitbart's most recent book Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save The World! is up to #7 on the Amazon bestseller list and #44 in the paid Kindle Store.
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James Atlas Joins Amazon Publishing; Atlas & Co. Stops Releasing New Titles
According to accounts from sources, James Atlas, founder of the independent publishing house Atlas & Co., has joined Amazon Publishing and Atlas and Co. has ceased releasing frontlist titles.
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Barclay Publishing Announces Publisher-Bookseller Alliance Program For Indies
In a unique deal, Barclay Publishing is excluding all online booksellers from purchasing its San Francisco Cross-Street Guide and Map in an arrangement with NCIBA.
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Twelve Releasing Three Out-of-Print Hitchens Books In Build-Up to Author's Posthumous Memoir
Twelve, which is publishing Christopher Hitchens's posthumous memoir Mortality in the fall, has announced a publication date for the anticipated title, as well as plans to release new editions of three out-of-print titles by the author, who succumbed to esophageal cancer on December 15.
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Call for Information: Spring Sports Books
We are preparing a March 19 feature on Spring Sports Books, both e-books and print, adult and children’s.
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Tracking Amazon: Hunger Games Dominates Amazon's February P&E Charts
For the second straight month, the Hunger Games trilogy took the top three spots on both Amazon's physical top 10 and Kindle top 10 for February.
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F+W Launches Prologue Books for Out-of-Print Digital Novels
F+W Media has announced the acquisition of more than 250 out-of-print novels, spanning from 1940 to 1970, to be re-issued as e-books under the new imprint Prologue Books.
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Islandport Press Signs with Transatlantic Literary Agency
Islandport Press in Yarmouth, Me., announced that Toronto-based Transatlantic Literary Agency will represent its titles in Europe and Asia.
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Running Press and Comedy Central Form Partnership
Running Press has formed a joint publishing program with Comedy Central to build on the cable network's brands.
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Planned Television Arts Rebrands as Media Connect
Planned Television Arts has rebranded itself as Finn Partners MEDIA CONNECT. The name change comes on the book publicity firm's 50th anniversary.
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Thomas Nelson's Digital Experiment with Wiseman Novel
The new novel by Beth Wiseman, author of Christian fiction books that have sold over one million copies, will be released on a unique schedule.
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Graywolf Goes Public with Literary Magazine
Graywolf Press and A Public Space. have entered into a partnership: selected works originally submitted to the literary magazine will be developed and published in book-length format by the literary press.
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The Washington Independent Review of Books Marks First Anniversary
“This is a true labor of love for all of us. Since none of us, including our reviewers, is getting paid. We all believe that the most important feelings and insights are shared through books," said The Independent's president David O. Stewart.
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'Becoming China's Bitch' Takes Amazon's #1 Spot Behind Big Campaign
Turner Publishing's Becoming China's Bitch: And Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right Now by Peter D. Kiernan has topped Amazon's bestseller list for the last two days.
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EDC Discontinues Usborne Books on Amazon
Educational Development Corporation, publisher of Usborne and Kane Miller books in the U.S., has announced that, effective immediately, the company will no longer sell any of its books on Amazon.
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Earnings Up at Penguin in 2011
Following the pattern set earlier this month by Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group reported a slight decline in total revenue for 2011, but an increase in earnings.
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Princeton Univ Press Launches WildGuides Imprint
Princeton University Press has acquired backlist rights to a line of books it has been co-publishing for years called the WildGuides.
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Tracking Amazon: Oscar Movies See Sales Increase
A number of books that inspired films nominated for an Academy Award this year are seeing a sharp uptick immediately following the Sunday night telecast of the show.
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News Briefs: Week of February 27, 2012
IPG Stands Firm on Amazon Terms and more.
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Square One’s Personal Mission Drives New Cancer Book
For Square One Publishers’ founder Rudy Shur, Beyond the Magic Bullet—The Anti-Cancer Cocktail: A New Approach to Beating Cancer, which his company released earlier this month, is the culmination of a three-year personal connection he forged with the book’s author, Dr. Raymond Chang.