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  • News Briefs: Week of 4/26/10

  • Phoenix Books Closes

    Phoenix Books was abruptly closed Friday by owner Dwight Opperman who bought the Los Angeles-based indie in fall 2007

  • Hachette's Nashville Office Realigned

    Hachette's Nashville-based operations has moved marketing to New York and is putting together a small New York editorial team.

  • The PW Morning Report: Monday, April 25, 2010

    A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Styron Rights Go Free; The LA Times Book Festival; Sarah Silverman Interviewed; Why Men Don't Read; Argentina Promotes Reading; Poetry Reviewed.

  • Short Order: April 26

    Checking in on the wide world of cookbooks, we find three new cookbook iPhone apps, including ones from Nigella Lawson and Mark Bittman; a new menu at New York's Algonquin Hotel featuring dishes from a new Collins cookbook, and an upcoming panel discussion about food on the tube featuring Kathleen Collins, Padma Lakshmi, Charlie Trotter, and Amanda Hesser.

  • IACP Awards Honor Big and Small Names

    Last week's IACP conference culminated with an awards ceremony where 20 cookbooks were honored. Some of the biggest names in cookbooks landed in the winner's circle: baking powerhouse Rose Levy Beranbaum took home the prize for best baking book and best overall cookbook, and Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home won for best chef and restaurant book. But a few little guys won, too.

  • Review: Fiesta at Rick's

    This seventh cookbook from Mexican food guru Rick Bayless provides 150 recipes "geared toward kicking back and relaxing with friends." Guacamole is a must, and Bayless's version features mango and chipotle-roasted almonds. There are also recipes for five different ceviches, tacos and tamales inspired by Mexican street vendors, and a Oaxacan-style lamb pit barbecue.

  • Big 'Tinkers' Shipment Rolling Next Week

    David Steinberger, president of Perseus Books Group, said he expects over 100,000 copies of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers to begin shipping early next week.

  • Monday's Reviews Today: Benton Frank Returns to the South & Heller Hangs Ten

    Dorothea Benton Frank's sequel to Plantation, Lowcountry Summer, will be a welcome read for fans who "appreciate Frank's signature mix of sass, sex, and gargantuan personalities." About the matriarch of a Southern family trying to keep everyone in line, the novel "lovingly mixes a brew of personalities who deliver nonstop clashes, mysteries, meltdowns, and commentaries." And in Peter Heller's Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave, we get a "gripping memoir of finding the value of life while shooting the curl off Baja."

  • The PW Morning Report: Friday, April 23, 2010

    A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across
    the Web: Books for Alzheimer's Patients; Kindle Comes to Target; BEA
    Bookings Rise; Amazon vs. Publishers; Grisham for Kids.

  • The PW Morning Report: Thursday, April 22, 2010

    A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: An Amazing Book-Sorting Machine; Los Angeles Times Book Fest; OverDrive's New App; Cooking with iPad; Oates on Mourning.

  • The PW Morning Report: Thursday, April 22, 2010

    A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: An Amazing Book-Sorting Machine; Los Angeles Times Book Fest; OverDrive's New App; Cooking with iPad; Oates on Mourning.

  • Courier Has Mixed Second Quarter

    Sales dipped slightly at Courier Corp. in the second quarter but earnings improved. The printer/publisher said the economy is better than a year ago, bur recovery is uneven.

  • The PW Morning Report, Wednesday, April 21, 2010

    A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Two LBF Reports; Oprah on Kelly Bio; Toibin on e-books; A Writer in China.

  • Correction: Picture of the Day

  • The PW Morning Report: Tuesday, April 20, 2010

    A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Orange Prize Shortlist; Virtual Book Fair; Johnny Weir, Author; What's Killing Fiction; Michelle Obama iPhone App; Nielsen sells the Bookseller.

  • Hendrickson Publishers to Add Fiction

    Hendrickson Publishers, long known as an academic and reference book house, is partnering with Christian fiction publishing industry veterans Gary and Carol Johnson to establish a new fiction line.

  • Macmillan to Publish E-Catalogs with Treeline

    By the end of this month, Macmillan will publish some of its frontlist catalogs on the Web via Edelweiss, Above the Treeline's interactive publisher catalog system. The publisher will pilot a selection of its "key" imprints--including Henry Holt adult, Picador, St. Martin's Griffin and Roaring Brook Press--for the fall 2010 selling season, and will expand to additional imprints in 2011.

  • Consortium Continues to Grow

    Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, continues to grow and diversify with the addition of four more publishers to its client list.

  • Amazon Sues North Carolina over Demand for Customer Records

    Amazon has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Seattle against the North Carolina Department of Revenue charging that its demand that Amazon turnover the names and addresses of all residents who bought anything from the e-tailer since 2003 is an invasion of privacy and a violation of the First Amendment.

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