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WestBow Press Expands
Self-publishing alliance WestBow will now support Zondervan publishing, as it currently does Thomas Nelson.
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Good Enterprises Wants S&S to Keep Selling its Books
Christine Shubert, the trustee overseeing the Chapter 7 proceedings of Good Enterprises, has asked the bankruptcy court to give Good Books’ distributor, Simon & Schuster, the authority to continue to sell the company’s titles.
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News Briefs: Week of January 6, 2014
Authors Guild Appeals Google Decision and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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HarperCollins by the Numbers
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The Bestselling Books of 2013
Hard Luck, the eighth book in Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid series, was the bestselling book across all print formats in 2013, selling over 1.8 million hardcover copies
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Kensington Buys Digital Pub, Lyrical Press
Kensington Publishing has acquired the e-book house, Lyrical Press. Lyrical, which was founded in 2007, and specializes in contemporary, paranormal and erotic romance; thrillers; and science fiction.
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Byliner Publishes New Leonard Stories
The two stories were written in 1958 while the late writer was working at a Detroit-based advertising agency.
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Controversy Doesn't Slow 'Happy' Sales
Sales of the Duck Dynasty star's book, Happy, Happy, Happy, saw an 86% increase between the weeks ended December 15 and December 22.
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Lion Stone: Artisanal Books in a Digital Age
A publisher continues to hand-bind and hand-sew books that also function as works of art.
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Morgan James and CML Entertainment Launch New Imprint
Morgan James Publishing partners with CML Entertainment to launch a new series imprint with nine titles planned for fall 2014.
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News Briefs: Week of December 23, 2013
Whiteman Leaving PRH and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Hot for the Holidays
The Rainbow Loom—a loom for weaving jewelry and other objects out of colorful rubber bands that has become one of the hottest toys this holiday season—has been a boon to children’s publishers that got ahead of the trend.
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Chris Knopf to Become Permanent Press Partner
Since Martin Shepard and his wife Judy started the Permanent Press 35 years ago, the two have built a publishing house with a backlist of around 450 titles, including works by about 50 award-winning authors.
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New Canadian University Press Grabs Spotlight
It’s not every day that a book from a scholarly press inspires a song and gets its own music video, but that’s what the first book released by the University of Regina Press in Saskatchewan, Canada, has done this fall.
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A Chinese Publisher in New York
While George Zhu, founder of CN Times Books, the newly launched U.S. subsidiary of Beijing Mediatime Books, is impressed by the “professionalism” of U.S. publishing, he’s also surprised by American inefficiency.
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HMH Has Hit With Scratch, Sniff Wine
A "grocery" as opposed to a "luxury" is how Houghton Mifflin Harcourt refers to wine on the cover of its inventive, playful, and now popular, new book, The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert.
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E-Reads Reissues Harlan Ellison Backlist
The books will be reissued in both trade paperback and e-book formats, and will feature updated interiors and new cover treatments.
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S&S Keeping 'Duck Dynasty' Title on Shelves
Despite the controversy stirred up Wednesday afternoon by critical remarks of "homosexual behavior" by Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson in a GQ interview, Simon & Schuster has no plans to pull Phil Robertson's bestselling book, Happy, Happy, Happy. The title has sold nearly 600,000 printed copies in outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Books-A-Million also said it will continue to sell the book; representatives from B&N did not get back to PW this morning about whether they will continue to sell Happy.
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S&S Teams With HuffPo, AARP on Memoir Contest
Simon & Schuster has teamed with AARP and The Huffington Post on a contest open to memoirists 50 and older.
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IBPA Approves Code of Ethics
The board of directors of the Independent Book Publishers Association recently approved a Code of Ethics that it would like its membership to abide by.



