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Innovation in the Adirondacks
Peru, N.Y., a small town on Lake Champlain with a population of 6,400, might seem like an unlikely spot for a publisher to set up shop. But it didn't deter Lawrence Gooley and his partner, Jill McKee. Seven years ago they founded Bloated Toe Enterprises there, which includes Bloated Toe Publishing and North Country Store (www.bloatedtoe.com/store), an online outlet for Bloated Toe titles and 400 products by North Country and Adirondack authors, artists, and artisans.
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Penguin Launches Online Bookclub on BlogHer
Penguin has partnered with female-centeric social media site Blogher to create a forum for readers to discuss books. Through the partnership BlogHer, which features news and entertainment content as well as an outlet for women to network online, has created a section of its site called Book Club that will feature Penguin titles (usually two) on a monthly basis.
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Disney Book Group Moves Distribution to Hachette
Hachette Book Group is now handling Canadian sales and distribution for Disney Book Group. HBG also provides sales and physical distribution into the trade book market to Marvel, also owned by The Walt Disney Company.
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Haymarket Author's Tour Moves Forward
Chicago publisher Haymarket Books announced Thursday that human rights activist Omar Barghouti’s book tour is going to happen: after four months of unexplained delays, the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem finally has given him a visa to enter the U.S. Barghouti, the founding member of the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment, Sanction Campaign, is a critic of Israel and the author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights.
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Taschen's First 3D Books Are Big
Always adventurous publisher Taschen is launching its first line of 3D books, and, as you’d expect from a house known for its outsize books--and subjects--the first Taschen books getting the 3D treatment are Taschen’s Big Body Parts series: The Big Penis Book and The Big Book of Breasts.
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Hal Leonard Expands Distribution Deal with Jawbone Press
Beginning May 2, Hal Leonard Corporation’s rights to distribute the catalogue of London- and San Francisco-based independent music book publisher Jawbone Press will be expanded. Hal Leonard has been distributing the line to music stores around the world since Jawbone’s launch in 2007, but will now be able to also sell Jawbone’s publications to the book trade in North America, Australia, and Asia.
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More Publishers, Authors, and Illustrators Help Japan
Following yesterday’s report on what publishers are doing to help recovery efforts in Japan, there’s an update on Melville House’s campaign to raise money for the cause. The house donated all profits from any purchase on its website the week of March 17 to Save the Children, GlobalGiving Project, Hands on Tokyo, and the American Red Cross--and raised more than $5,000.
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Events in the Middle East Boost Sales at Interlink
Since its founding in 1987, Interlink Books in Northampton, Mass., has been publishing literature in translation from the Middle East. "I've always believed that literature is a mirror to the soul. It tells you what history books hide," says Michel Moushabeck, publisher and editor of Interlink in Northampton, Mass., which also publishes nonfiction primers, cookbooks, and travel books. Because of the perspective its books provide, Interlink saw a big jump in sales after 9/11. Now in the wake of the current uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, the 24-year-old press is once again seeing sizeable increases at Amazon and on its own InterlinkBooks.com Web site, as well as strong orders from libraries and independents.
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Dorchester Promises to Do Right by Authors
The remaking of Dorchester Publishing from a primarily mass market paperback publisher to one that publishes both e-books and trade paperbacks that began last fall had been going fairly well until earlier this month when author Brian Keene accused the company of selling e-books for which they no longer had the rights. To protest what he charged was Dorchester's lack of responsiveness to his concerns, Keene began urging consumers to boycott the publisher, a movement which gained support online. In an interview Monday, Dorchester CEO Bob Anthony and senior editor Chris Keeslar said they understood Keene’s frustration, but said they are also frustrated by the situation.
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Publishers Help Japanese Quake Victims
Publishers have come up with a range of ways to aid victims of the tsunami and earthquake in Japan, from bake sales to book sales.
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Correction
Rhonda Byrne’s latest bestseller, The Magic (Atria), was inadvertently omitted from PW’s March 26 Trade Paperback list.
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Fodor's Makes Itself at Home in Digital Group
When Maya Mavjee was appointed president and publisher of Random House's Crown Publishing Group in December 2009, Crown's nontrade units, including Random House Audio Publishing and Fodor's Travel Group, were separated from the group.
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Chain Sales Slipped 3% In 2010
Total sales at the nation's three largest bookstore chains fell 3.5% in the year ended January 31, dropping to just under $8 billion. Borders had the worst year, by far, with sales falling 17.6%, to approximately $2.3 billion.
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News Briefs: Week of 3/28/11
Weak Quarter For Scholastic and More.
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Politics Reaches Into Wisconsin's Book World
Even though the national media has moved on from its daily front-page coverage of events unfolding in Wisconsin, the impact of the political battles between Governor Scott Walker and public employees continues to reverberate in many ways for the regional book industry.
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Citing First Amendment, Publishers Fight Hawaii 'Duty to Warn' Bill
The Media Coalition this week submitted testimony opposing a bill in Hawaii, House Bill 548 HD 3, that would impose civil liability on writers and publishers of travel guides if a reader “suffers an injury or dies” after engaging in an activity or trespassing to reach a site "depicted or described" in the publication. In addition, the bill also imposes on guidebooks and websites "a duty to warn" readers of any dangerous conditions that may be "typical" to an attraction or activity. If enacted, the legislation would apply to traditional print media like books and magazines as well as to websites and advertisements.
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Tantor Rolls Out Tantor Studios
Looking to leverage its production and distribution capabilities, audiobook publisher Tantor Media has officially launched Tantor Studios. The new division, which has been in a “soft launch” phase since the fall, will offer full audio production and distribution services for publishers and authors
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In Paperbacks, Big Names on Top: Facts & Figures 2010
It's the Stieg Larsson show in 2010 paperback bestsellers. The first two books of his enormously successful trilogy racked up sales of more than 10,942,000 in their mass market and paperback editions. That's more than the combined sales of two other stellar sellers—James Patterson and Nora Roberts. Their combined sales total for 15 titles in mass and trade amounted to a bit more than 7,734,200.
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The Winning Game: 2010 Hardcovers: Facts & Figures 2011
What's new in the hardcover fiction bestsellers of 2010? Very little. Almost every author in the fiction top 30 has been on these charts in previous years—most several times. The sole exception is the #1 fiction bestseller, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, with sales of 1.9 million.
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Storey Publishing Broadens Its Appeal
After testing a separate children's line in 2002, Storey Publishing is making a new push into children's with activity-oriented books on sewing, nature, and papermaking for adults and children to use together.
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