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America’s Test Kitchen Turns Up the Heat on Retail
Last year the press's two New York Times bestsellers boosted retail sales. This year it's stirring the pot with its first photo-driven cookbook, The America’s Test Kitchen Cooking School Cookbook.
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Kheradi Named Director of International Sales and Marketing at PRH
Kheradi's appointment continues the PRH's movement toward creating a united staff in its operating divisions. Last week the company announced the creation of a cross-company senior management team for PRH’s fulfillment operations.
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Two Dollar Radio Expands Into Film Production
Two Dollar Radio, which has published critically-acclaimed literary fiction since 2005, is expanding into micro-budget film production.
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News Briefs: Week of September 23, 2013
Authors Guild’s Aiken Has ALS and more.
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HCI Has High Hopes for Gosselin Cookbook
HCI has gone back for a second printing for its for its big fall book, reality TV personality Kate Gosselin's forthcoming Love is in the Mix, which goes on sale September 24.
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Average Raise in 2012 was 2.8%
The average raise in 2012 was 2.8%, according to PW's just-concluded salary and jobs survey. That will be one of the findings discussed at PW's breakfast panel discussion set for September 25 in New York
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Penguin Random House Creates United Fulfillment Group
Penguin Random House U.S. president and COO Madeline McIntosh announced the creation of a cross-company senior management team for PRH’s fulfillment operations.
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HarperCollins Opens Voting for BookSmash Challenge
The contest challenges developers to create new digital products that "break the binding" and reimagine the book.
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Book Country Tops 10,000 Members
Book Country, Penguin Random House’s online writing and publishing community, announced today that their membership has grown to over 10,000 members.
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Exterminating Angel Press Launches Indiegogo Fundraiser
As publisher Tod Davies envisions more books each year for EAP, she hopes to raise $7,500 and reach more readers.
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News Briefs: Week of September 16, 2013
Enderlin to Head SMP Paperbacks and more.
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Ohio University Press Rebrands Trade Imprint
As it approaches its 50th anniversary in 2014, Ohio University Press is seeking to enhance its visibility in the trade by rebranding Swallow Press, a 73-year-old literary press that entered into a licensing agreement with O.U. Press in 1979 and officially became its trade imprint in 2008.
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China’s CN Times Books Debuts U.S. List
CN Times Books is the U.S. publishing subsidiary of Beijing Media Time Book Co. Ltd., one of the largest trade book publishers in China.
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Farcountry Press Turns Around Under New Ownership
Linda Netschert turns Farcountry Press around since taking over the regional photography book company in 2011.
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UNC Press Receives $250,000 Grant
The University of North Carolina Press has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust to address challenges brought about by the digital transformation in publishing.
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Atwood, Jacobson Tackling Bard for Hogarth
Random House's cross Atlantic imprint, Hogarth, has signed two more authors to participate in its recently-announced Shakespeare project.
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News Briefs: Week of September 6, 2013
RH Children’s To Publish Seuss Classics as E-books and more.
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Changes Coming Slowly to Penguin Random House
Ever since the Penguin–Random House merger was announced, Markus Dohle, CEO of the new company, has promised that the integration of the two publishers would be handled carefully and deliberately.
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Coloring Book Star Takes Stab At U.S. Market
Mel Elliott, who lives in the U.K., self-published Colour Me Good: Ryan Gosling on a lark.



