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News Briefs: Week of June 17, 2013
McArthur & Co. To Close and more
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How Hachette Grew Elin Hilderbrand
Elin Hilderbrand arrived at Hachette in 2007 as a midlist author. Six books later, she's a major bestseller with over four million books in print.
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Can Evoke Solve the Book Discovery Blues?
What started with a 32-hour marathon session in May is, in June, the beginning of one of the most dedicated efforts to solve the problem of online book discovery.
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Twitter and Publishers: Growth Slows in 2013
A surprising number was revealed in PW’s annual Twitter snapshot: 31%.
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Quirk Books Launches 'Looking for Love' Writing Contest
Quirk Books has announced its "Looking for Love" fiction contest, which allows writers to submit unpublished novel-length manuscripts containing a love story.
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'Entwined,' 'Joyland' Have Solid Start
Sylvia Day’s Entwined with You was the top selling title in the week ended June 9 at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan, selling over 134,000 copies.
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Kingfisher Cuts Back in the U.S.
U.K.-based children’s book publisher Kingfisher has scaled back its U.S. operations, cutting its staff from three to one and reducing the number of titles it will release per season from 60 to about 35.
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Random’s McIntosh Will Not Testify; Apple’s Snyder Goes Ballistic
Apple lawyer Orin Snyder was very unhappy to hear that Random House COO Madeleine McIntosh will not testify in open Court.
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Macmillan’s Sargent, Apple’s Moerer Testify at the Apple Trial
Macmillan CEO John Sargent returned to the witness stand again on the sixth day of the Apple e-book price fixing trial and was followed by Apple executive Keith Moerer.
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S&S Launches Customer Portal for Booksellers
Simon & Schuster has launched its Customer Portal for booksellers beginning June 11.
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Kindle Worlds Signs Blake Crouch
According to the Kindle Worlds Twitter account, Blake Crouch's novel Pines will be part of the fan fiction program.
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Black Classic Press Marks 35 Years with Walter Mosley Signing
Black Classic Press publisher Paul Coates is marking the 35th anniversary of the press with a series of events that will kick off June 11 with a signing by novelist Walter Mosley at the Pratt Library in Baltimore.
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Keen Acquires The Unofficial Guides Brand from Google
PGW and Keen Communications have announced The Unofficial Guides will become the fourth imprint in Keen’s portfolio, effective July 2013.
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News Briefs: Week of June 10, 2013
U.S. vs. Apple Trial and more
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Toronto's McArthur & Company to Close
Canadian publisher McArthur & Company is closing, but its president Kim McArthur is starting a new literary agency with an eye on Hollywood.
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David Ebershoff: It’s Not Just About the Pulitzers
David Ebershoff has had a good year. In April he achieved publishing history—or, at least carved out a footnote—joining elite company as an editor with two Pulitzer Prize–winning books on his list in the same year.
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The New HarperCollins
With the “new” News Corp. slated to become a stand-alone corporation at the end of June, executives from the company made a presentation before investors in New York in late May and again in Australia on June 5 talking about where the various subsidiaries in the group—which includes HarperCollins—stand and what their growth prospects are.
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Podcast: When Pirates Ruled America
Everything you need to know about the e-book price-fixing trial. Listen here.
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Curbside Splendor to Launch Imprint
Curbside Splendor, a cutting-edge Chicago small press that will be distributed by Consortium as of June, is launching in spring 2014 Dark House, a neo-noir and speculative fiction imprint.
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Crown Shifts Watson-Guptill, Amphoto, Potter Craft
Crown Publishing Group president and publisher Maya Mavjee continues to fine-tune the division’s organizational structure.



