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Melville House Wants New York to Read 'The Mueller Report'
In an effort to promote more widespread reading of the document, the publisher will send staffers around the city with a video camera, asking people on the street to read segments of the report for broadcast on social media.
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Steerforth Rebrands 'The Irishman' in Lead-Up to Scorsese Release
Steerforth Press will release new mass market and trade paperback editions of 'I Heard You Paint Houses' by Charles Brandt as 'The Irishman,' to match the forthcoming film by Martin Scorsese.
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PRH Added £25 Million to Pearson's First Half Earnings
As Pearson continues to overhaul its education operations, the company said its stake in Penguin Random House contributed £25 million to its adjusted operating profit, up from £22 million in the first half of 2018.
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BISG Convenes First Meeting of New Board
The newly elected board of directors of the Book Industry Study Group will meet for the first time on July 25 in New York City.
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RB Media Launches New Politics Imprint, Kalorama
Independent audiobook publisher RB Media is redoubling its politics and current events publishing with the creation of a new imprint, Kalorama Audio.
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Mahoney Sets a Broader Course for Chronicle
Since she took over as president of Chronicle Books in January 2017, Tyrrell Mahoney has expanded the San Francisco–based publisher into new subject areas and locations.
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Harlequin Creates Two Business Groups
The publisher will now be organized around the Harlequin Trade Publishing Group, headed by Loriana Sacilotto, and the Harlequin Brand Group, led by Brent Lewis. Angela James and Joanne Grant will leave Harlequin on July 19.
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Arcadia Publishing Forms Children's Division
Arcadia Publishing has formed a children’s division and appointed former DK editorial director Nancy Ellwood to head it.
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Pearson Puts Print Books to Bed
The publisher will shift its U.S. textbook publishing program to a digital first model. Print texts will be available for rental only.
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Breaking Down 2019's Bestsellers (So Far)
Of the top 40 bestselling books this year across the adult and children's categories, only eight of them were published in 2019, for a grand total of 1/5 of the list.
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Michael Zilkha Launches ZE Books
English entrepreneur and ZE Records cofounder Michael Zilkha has launched ZE Books, a new small press that will publish "literary mix-tapes from visionary writers, artists, and musicians."
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Book Biz Stocks Sank Over Past Six Months
For the most part, publishing industry stocks have fallen out of favor with investors, and that looks unlikely to change anytime soon.
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Gibbs Smith Publisher at 50
The employee-owned house, best known for books on design, crafts, and cooking, regional-interest titles, and children’s books, is keeping up its late founder's legacy.
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'Where the Crawdads Sing' Top Seller So Far in 2019
Delia Owens's novel was the top-selling print book in the first half of 2019 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The novel, published in August 2018, sold more than 907,000 copies in 2019 and upwards of 1.1 million copies since its release.
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Deep Vellum Acquires Two Publishers, Adds Imprints
Dallas-based translation publisher Deep Vellum has acquired the backlists of Phoneme Media of Los Angeles and A Strange Object of Austin, Tex., and is expanding into publishing works originally written in English.
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John Sargent Reflects On Macmillan Leaving the Flatiron
We asked CEO John Sargent to share what it was like to work at the Flatiron Building, and his feeling about leaving one of New York’s most famous buildings.
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Twenty Years in, Minotaur Is Leaner and Broader
After slashing its yearly catalogue in half while roughly tripling its profits over the past decade, the St. Martin’s Press mystery imprint is diversifying its list while still bringing readers "books that make the heart race."
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Columbia Global Reports Goes Its Own Way
After five years and 20 titles, Columbia Global Reports has found a successful formula: it allows top authors to take on big, timely subjects in short, accessible books.
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New Publishing Director for Amberjack Publishing
Following the June 7 departure of publisher Dayna Anderson and managing editor Cassandra Farrin, the Eagle, Idaho-based company named Justin Mitson publishing director.
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Harlequin Unveils New Film/TV Arm
In a move to bring its content to more screens—big and small—Harlequin has launched Harlequin Studios.