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Hanson Leads S&S Canada into Publishing
After finally winning permission in May from the Canadian government to publish Canadian books, rather than just marketing titles from the U.S. and U.K., Simon & Schuster Canada is gearing up to release its first domestic list under the direction of Kevin Hanson.
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HarperCollins Steps Up in Fiction
The two-book deal William Morrow signed with Patricia Cornwell earlier this month was just the latest high-profile deal in a concerted effort by parent company HarperCollins to rebuild the house’s fiction list.
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Chegg Plans $150 Million IPO
Chegg, the company that began as an online platform offering college textbooks for rent and now offers other services for college students, is looking to raise $150 million in an initial public offering.
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Harlequin Expands Digital First Efforts
The Harlequin, Harlequin Teen, Harlequin Mira, and Harlequin HQN imprints will all publish e-book originals in the coming months.
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RH Imprint Alibi Announces Debut Titles
The new digital-original publishing program will launch with The Last Clinic by Gary Gusick, the first novel in the Darla Cavanaugh mystery series.
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Amazon to Publish Biography Series
Amazon Publishing has announced a new series called Icons that will feature short biographies of significant people.
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Goodman Fiell Debuts First List
Goodman Fiell, the recently formed imprint of the U.K. based Carlton Publishing Group, unveiled the titles for their first list, to be published in fall 2013.
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Mudditt Makes Over U.C. Press
When the University of California Press, in November 2010, published The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, it was in for a surprise: the 760-page hardcover, priced at $45, became an immediate bestseller.
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Pegasus Builds on Record 2012
Coming off of a record 2012, when sales rose 125% to just under $3 million, Pegasus Books publisher Claiborne Hancock hopes to keep the momentum going in 2013 with new hires, more titles, and more e-book sales.
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News Briefs: Week of August 12, 2013
Bezos Buys ‘Washington Post’ and more
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Fall 2013 Books Preview: The Season's Big Books
We've reviewed hundreds of books publishing this fall. These are the stand-outs.
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Car Talk from a 'Hack Mechanic'
Bentley Publishers in Cambridge, Mass., has its most high-profile book of the year with a sleeper memoir from popular BMW columnist Rob Siegel.
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CLMP Expands Membership
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) announced changes to its membership requirements, welcoming applicants from the DIY side of independent publishing.
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ABFFE Partners with Ingram for Banned Books Week
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression announced a partnership with Ingram Content Group that will better enable booksellers to order books and celebrate Banned Books Week this year, which takes place September 22-28.
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Elsevier Acquires Book Assets of Gulf Publishing
Elsevier today has acquired certain book assets of Gulf Publishing Company.
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Major Redesign for Scholastic Book Clubs
Scholastic announced that the school book club flyers traditionally formatted to serve multiple grades will now arrive in classrooms with grade-specific monthly book selections
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Consolidation in Coloring Books as Bendon Acquires Dalmatian
Bendon, Inc., has acquired Dalmatian Press, LLC, from Anderson Press Ltd. The merger creates a value-publishing giant that will ship 200 million coloring, activity, story, board, educational, and other books per year, effectively doubling Bendon’s size.
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New Bowker Study Charts Latest Trends
The increase in online retailers’ share of book spending and the penetration levels of e-books in different consumer book categories are some of the trends found in 2013 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review, a new study just released by R.R. Bowker.
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Lambda Announces New President and Vice-President
The Lambda Literary Foundation has named S. Chris Shirley president of the board of trustees, with Susan Atkins assuming the role of v-p.
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News Briefs: Week of August 5, 2013
DoJ’s Apple Proposals and more



