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Kensington to Unify Digital Imprints
Kensington announced that it will merge its two digital imprints, eKensington and Lyrical Press, into one entity under the Lyrical Press banner.
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40 Years After Resignation, a Wave of Nixon Books
With the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation approaching, five books on Nixon are coming to market.
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Checking In on Celebrity Imprints
We checked in on five publishing ventures led by celebrities to see which books each has released, what’s worked, and what’s in the pipeline.
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Rodale Betting ‘Bulletproof’ Will Stir Sales
Dave Asprey’s "The Bulletproof Diet," a lifestyle title due this December from Rodale Books, is the result of more than 20 years of research.
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News Briefs: Week of July 28, 2014
A loss for Amazon and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Rizzoli to Buy Welcome Books
Rizzoli International Publications announced that it will acquire the assets of Welcome Books, an illustrated book publisher and the publishing imprint of Welcome Enterprises.
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Literary Agent to Re-Publish Author's 2004 Novel
Literary agent Marly Rusoff is re-releasing, through her publishing imprint Maiden Lane Press, a debut novel by Jonathan Odell.
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Four Questions for...Andrew Karre
Carolrhoda Lab is releasing in spring 2015 "The Bunker Diary" by Kevin Brooks, a YA novel that ignited a firestorm of controversy in the U.K. recently, when it was awarded the Carnegie Medal.
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Mighty Media Acquires Scarletta
Mighty Media Inc.,a Minneapolis packaging, production, and interactive company, has, as of July 1, made Scarletta, which publishes books primarily for the children's market, a division of Mighty Media.
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Indie Publisher Releases First Salinger E-book
Memphis-based Devault-Graves Digital Editions has collected three early stories from J.D. Salinger in a volume that is, according to the publisher, the "first legitimate book by Salinger to be published in 50 years," and the first Salinger work available digitally.
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Binc Reveals Survey Results
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation released results from a survey it conducted on how familiar book industry employees are with the organization.
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HMH Strikes Deal with Cricket
The deal will give HMH access to over 100k articles and passages from Cricket's library to include in instructional and supplemental tools for students and teachers.
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News Briefs: Week of July 21, 2014
Kindle Unlimited goes live and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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DreamWorks Press Gears Up for Fall Launch
DreamWorks Press, a new unit of the movie studio DreamWorks Animation that was established in February, is set to release its first list this fall.
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Publishers' Acquisition Activity Picks Up
The first half of 2014 was one of the publishing industry’s busiest six-month periods for mergers and acquisitions since the start of the Great Recession.
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Keen Acquires Nature Study Guides
Birmingham-based publisher Keen Communications announced that it has acquired most of the publishing assets of Nature Study Guides, a family-owned line of pocket-sized guides for field use.
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Four Questions for 'The Bear' Editor Sarah Murphy
With a recent film option, could this novel by Toronto-based author Claire Cameron gain more traction in the U.S.
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Rowman & Littlefield Restructures Globe Pequot
Rowman & Littlefield has restructured its Globe Pequot division, integrating most of the backoffice and sales functions and reorganizing the editorial operations. Approximately 28 jobs were eliminated.
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News Briefs: Week of July 14, 2014
Arcadia Buys The History Press
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‘Outlander’ Preps For Its Close-Up
Diana Gabaldon is having something of a George R.R. Martin moment.



