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S&S and Yilin Press Enter Distribution and Publishing Agreement
Under one of the more comprehensive trade deals with a Chinese publishing house, S&S will distribute e-books of a broad cross-section of Yilin Press’s Mandarin language titles.
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One Year Later, Coady’s Atavist Books Set to Launch
Last September, when it was announced that media mogul Barry Diller, film producer Scott Rudin, and former Picador publisher Frances Coady were forming a multiplatform book publishing company, Coady promised it would be “not the usual model.”
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News Briefs: Week of October 7, 2013
Apple Appeals Price-Fixing Decision and more.
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The PW Publishing Industry Salary Survey, 2013
The Publishers Weekly salary survey is back. How well does your salary stack up to the industry average?
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Podcast: Book Business Sees Positive Side
Today in publishing, where so much about the book business is uncertain, positive thinking is surprisingly widespread among employees.
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McGraw-Hill Professional Introduces Webinar Series
"Work Smarter" will bring together leading business authors who will share career insights and strategies.
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S&S In Final Phases of Homepage Redesigns
Simon & Schuster, which has been redesigning the homepages on its Web sites, announced that it is now in the final phase of what has been a roll-out process.
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Former D&M Publisher and COO Launch New Agency
Page Two Strategies is the latest of several new ventures rising from the ashes of Canada's indie D&M Publishers.
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Hard Case Crime to Publish Early Crichton Thrillers
The author penned eight novels under the pseudonym John Lange during his time at Harvard Medical School.
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Dark Horse Switches Book Trade Distribution to RHPS
Dark Horse Books will switch its general book trade distribution to Random House Publisher Services beginning June 1, 2014.
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SMP Partners with Special Ops Publisher
Marc Resnick, editor at St. Martin's Press, has set up a partnership with Special Operations Forces Report (Sofrep.com) to publish original e-books targeted at those focused on the field of special operations.
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PRH Creates Unified Audio Group
The group will be headed by Amanda D'Acierno, who will assume the role of senior v-p, publisher at PRH Audio, Fodor's and Living Language.
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News Briefs: Week of September 30, 2013
Nelson Lifts Results at HC in Fiscal 2013 and more.
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The Changing Publishing Job Market
A panel of industry experts gathered to discuss the state of publishing’s ever-changing jobs market at a Publishers Weekly Discussion Series on September 25, at Random House’s offices in midtown Manhattan.
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Penguin Goes Cross Country With the Joads
To tie into the forthcoming 75th anniversary of the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin is partnering with the National Steinbeck Center on a unique event.
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Joan Powers to Head Candlewick Entertainment
Candlewick announced the first two appointments for its new media-related imprint and for a similar imprint from Walker Books, Walker Entertainment, which will both publish their first books in spring 2014.
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NEA Study Finds Reading Levels Steady, Though 'Literature' Reading Dips
The study found that general book reading in 2012 was even with levels in 2008, but that reading literature (defined as novels, short stories, plays and poetry) had declined.
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Quercus Returns to 'Top Line Growth'
BookBrunch reports that Quercus results for the six months ended June 30 show turnover up 10.9% to £10.2 million (2012: £9.2 million ), with non-Larsson revenues up 53% to £9.5 million (2012: £6.2 million).



