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Samhain Relaunches Website; Debuts Don D'Auria Horror Line
Don D'Auria, former executive editor at Dorchester's Leisure Books imprint and noted expert on the horror genre, has been hired by original e-book house Samhain Publishing to launch a line of horror titles. Samhain, an e-book publisher that also publishes traditional print titles, has also redesigned and relaunched the Samhain website.
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Amazon Plans 16 Novels for Next AmazonEncore
Amazon has announced the spring/summer list for its AmazonEncore imprint, which will feature 16 novels. Launched in 2009, AmazonEncore looks to publish overlooked books and emerging authors using information on Amazon.com such as customer reviews and sales data. The new list includes several books from a number of authors, including Karen McQuestion.
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Student Press Could Have Sleeper Hit
Lookout Books, the new student-run imprint at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, looks like it could have a literary and commercial success with its first title. An outgrowth of UNC Wilmington's Publishing Laboratory and its creative writing department, Lookout Books is overseen by poet Emily Smith, director of the Publishing Laboratory, and former Tin House editor Ben George, editor of UNC Wilmington's literary magazine, Ecotone.
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News Briefs: 1/17/11
Borders Cuts 15 and More.
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E-book Sales Rise Nearly 130% in November
E-book sales in November rose 129.7%, to $46.6 million, from the 14 publishers who report results to the Association of American Publishers’ monthly sales report. The gain was below the year-to-date average which has e-book sales ahead 165.6% through November, but was better than the 112.4% increase reported in October when e-book sales were $40.7 million.
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Arizona Shooting Piques Interest in HCI Title
The tragic shooting in Arizona has piqued interest in one seemingly unlikely title from HCI. The nine-year-old girl who died in the tragedy, Christina Green Taylor, was born on September 11, 2001, and was featured in HCI's book Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11, which came out in 2002. The book was never a big seller for HCI, with just a 10,000-copy first printing, but interest in it has spiked since the events last weekend.
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Brilliance Teams with Chicken Soup for Audio Editions
Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing and Brilliance Audio have started a new imprint, Chicken Soup for the Soul on Brilliance Audio. The imprint will publish and distribute audiobook editions of select books in the Chicken Soup series.
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J.D. Salinger Estate, Swedish Author Settle Copyright Suit
It appears that Holden Caulfield will remain under tight control of the Salinger estate—at least in North America.
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Pubs See Big Jump in Holiday E-book Sales
Based on figures provided to PW by publishers, a number of familiar names topped e-book bestseller lists over the holidays as consumers hit the Web downloading current bestsellers for their new e-readers.
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Ooligan Press Turns Students Into Publishers
Six years after its official launch, Ooligan Press has published 30 titles, with all but five still in print. Founded and still run by Dennis Stovall, Ooligan is the publishing affiliate of Portland State University in Oregon, giving graduate students real-world publishing experience.
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News Briefs: Week of 1/10/11
NewSouth Ups Print Run on New Twain, and more.
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Exit Interview: PW talks to Retiring University of California Press Director Lynne Withey
After 25 years, the last nine as director, Lynne Withey retired at the end of 2010 from the University of California Press, winding down a career marked by significant growth, innovation, and service.
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Bestsellers '10: The Year in Bestsellers
If we had to name the author of the year, it would be Stieg Larsson. With a combined weekly total of 202 weeks on the 2010 bestseller charts and an impressive 59 of those in the #1 spot, his Millennium trilogy outpaced all other bestsellers.
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Key Porter Operations 'Suspended'
Responding to media reports that the company had shut down, Key Porter Books issued a brief statement Friday afternoon announcing that it was “temporarily suspending” its publishing operations. "Key Porter Books is considering a number of restructuring options, including the sale of certain titles in its valuable catalogue of Canadian works, all with a view to continuing as a leader in the Canadian publishing industry," the statement said. "In the meantime, Key Porter Books is supporting its authors through the continued marketing and sale of previously published works and distribution through [parent company] H.B. Fenn and Company Ltd."
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NewSouth Moves Ahead with Controversial 'Huck Finn'
It's been a busy week at NewSouth Books, where publishers Suzanne La Rosa and Randall Williams have fielded hundreds of calls, and many more e-mails, from news outlets and readers concerning their publication of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Since Monday, when PW first reported the publisher's plans to release Twain’s most celebrated and challenged works without the 'hurtful epithets' that have caused it to be dropped from school curricula, the story has generated enormous interest in both new and old media outlets. The outcry following PW’s story, much of it negative and all of it highly charged, has surprised but not discouraged La Rosa and NewSouth, who anticipated the controversy, if not the volume. La Rosa said that, in the wake of all the attention, NewSouth plans to increase their print run from the initial 7,500 to 10,000.
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BISG Survey Finds Students Prefer Print
The Book Industry Study Group has released the results of a new survey it conducted, called Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education. Among the findings are that 75% of college students say they prefer textbooks in printed rather than e-text form, citing print's look and feel, as well as its permanence and ability to be resold.
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BDS and Atlas Add Clients
The BookMasters Group in Ashland, Ohio, continues to grow with the addition of two new publishers to BookMasters Distribution Services--Design Media Publishing, a newly established publishing House in Hong Kong, which is a subsidiary of Liaoning Science and Technology Publishing House in Northeast China; and Islandport Press in Yarmouth, Maine, known for books with a regional New England focus.
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Scholastic Teaching Moves Order Processing
Effective January 29, Scholastic will move its order processing from HarperCollins. On that date Scholastic Jefferson City will begin distributing all titles from Scholastic Teaching Resources/Teacher's Friend. This change is only for Scholastic Teaching Resources/Teacher's Friend; Scholastic Trade will continue to be distributed by HarperCollins.
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Ferriss, Random House Suit Dismissed
Author Timothy Ferriss and his publisher, Random House, enter the new year with a dismissal in court. The Illinois Supreme Court, on December 21, dismissed the class action lawsuit Mario Aliano v. Timothy Ferriss and Random House, Inc.
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New Indigo Co-op Plan Upsets Publishers
Indigo Books & Music's decision to abruptly change its co-op terms has surprised and dismayed Canadian publishers. Indigo won't publicly disclose the details of agreements with vendors and wouldn't comment on the new co-op plan, but an e-mail from Bahram Olfati, v-p of adult trade, informed publishers of three major changes effective January 1, 2011.
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