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Harvard Square Editions: A Publishing House Run by Alumni
University alumni are often supportive of their alma mater, including its press. But a group of Harvard University alums who met on one of the university’s online discussion boards, felt they needed a press of their own and formed Harvard Square Editions to publish literary fiction with a social message.
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eChristian Forms eC Publishing Group
eChristian, Inc., the online digital retailer and audio publisher, announced today that it has formed the eC Publishing Group, comprising its two current audio imprints (christianaudio and Mission Audio) and two new book imprints, eChristianBooks and Mission Books.
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The Upper Room Positions Itself for Digital Future
Christian publisher The Upper Room has announced several staff changes, promoting from within and turning its focus toward digital platforms.
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Chelsea Green Taps Seventh Generation Exec as Associate Publisher/COO
Sustainability and renewable energy publisher Chelsea Green Publishing in White River Junction, Vt., named former Seventh Generation executive Dave Rapaport as associate publisher/COO starting July 1.
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Supreme Court Rejects California Law Banning Violent Video Games
The Media Coalition, a trade association that defends media First Amendment rights, hailed the U.S. Supreme Court after it delivered a 7-2 ruling Monday striking down a California Law banning the sale of violent video games to minors.
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MP Publishing: From Man to America
More than three years ago, Mark Pearce, a successful architect and property developer, started MP Publishing on the Isle of Man. Pearce immediately started buying book rights (mostly electronic) of work written by U.K. authors and built the company up to almost $400,000 in annual revenue.
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Guitar Madness
In a project carefully planned to be the last word on guitars, specialty book packager Epic Ink is publishing The Guitar Collection: An Elite Gathering of 150 Exceptional Guitars along with a companion volume called The Guitar Collection: Stories, a mammoth and meticulously crafted dual book collection that will document many of the most famous and historically significant guitars of all time.
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News Briefs: Week of 6/27/11
Borders Asset Sale Likely and More.
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Cengage Buys National Geographic School Unit
Cengage Learning has signed a definitive agreement with the National Geographic Society to acquire the organization’s digital and print school publishing unit.
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Distribution: Simon & Schuster Audio's New Deal, University of Nebraska Gets Caxton
Simon & Schuster Audio and independent music distributor Monostereo DLM have entered a new sales and distribution agreement, effective immediately. In other distribution news, the University of Nebraska Press will begin distributing for Caxton Press Sept. 1, 2011.
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Publishers See Interest Spike Following Whitey Bulger Arrest
The arrest of James "Whitey" Bulger, the mobster and FBI Top Ten Most Wanted fugitive, on June 23 has had an immediate effect on the publishing world, with authors and publishers alike scrambling to meet the rekindled interest in one of America's most notorious crime figures.
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The Top Five Twitter Feeds for the Six Largest Publishing Houses
On June 6, PW ran an article detailing 16 imprints and their presence on Twitter. The 16 imprints selected in that piece were intended to offer a glimpse into what publishers--big and small, independent and corporate--are doing on Twitter. In response to the popularity of this article, PW has asked the six largest publishing houses for data on their top five Twitter feeds, which are laid out below.
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Evanovich's "Smokin' Seventeen" Sells 218,000 on First Day
Total first-day sales for Janet Evanovich’s new book, Smokin’ Seventeen, reached 218,000 copies across print, audio, and digital formats. On its first day, 100,000 hardcovers, 100,000 e-books, and 18,000 audio books were sold through U.S. retail channels.
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Perseus Distribution and Diversion Books Enter Agreement
Perseus Distribution and Diversion Books announced today that they have entered into a sales and distribution agreement for the US and Canada.
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Roost Books Launched by Shambhala Publications
Shambhala Publications has launched Roost Books, its new lifestyle imprint, placing president Nikko Odiseos in charge. The first title under the Roost Books imprint is All Together Singing in the Kitchen by Nerissa and Katryna Nields, a music book for families, set to pub on September 13.
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Random House Revives Loveswept as E-only Imprint
Bantam’s Loveswept imprint was one of the most popular romance imprints in the 1980s and 1990s and now Random House is reviving Loveswept as an e-book only line that will release its first titles in August.
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Norton Revives Iconic 20th Century Imprint Liveright
Norton is reopening its former literary imprint Liveright & Company with executive editor Robert Weil as editor-in-chief and publishing director.
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News Briefs: Week of 6/20/2011
Borders in Pact To Prevent Closings
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New Sports Champs Have New Books Out
The obligatory sports books celebrating the victors of the NBA and NHL championships are in the works with Triumph Books and KCI Sports doing titles on the Mavericks' and Bruins' wins, respectively.
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