TODAY'S NEWS

Columbia Moving to Perseus for Fulfillment
Columbia University Press will close its warehouse this summer and move its fulfillment operations to Perseus Distribution. In addition to taking on fulfillment for Columbia’s titles, Perseus will also handle fulfillment for the press’s 11 distribution clients. The closing of the warehouse, located in Irvington, N.Y., will result in the elimination of 25 positions. A Columbia spokesperson said access to Perseus’ Constellation digital services was “the prize” in deciding to join Pereus. Through Constellation, Perseus provides clients with digital delivery of e-books as well as print on demand and short run digital printing services. The switch to Perseus will take place some time before the September adoption season starts.

Mobifusion Releases New Cellphone Content Viewer
Mobifusion, a software developer of applications that deliver book content to handheld mobile devices, is releasing Mobiviewer 2.5, an upgraded multimedia platform that improves viewing and reading content on mobile phones. Mobiviewer 2.5 is a graphic user interface for mobile phones that can deliver photos, audio and graphic content from publishers (among them Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Avalon, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin) to a wide variety of handsets and OS formats, including iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, Java, Symbian, iDEN, Palm and other platforms. Read on »

Amazon Optimizes Kindle Store for Safari on iPhones
By Lynn Andriani
Amazon's Kindle Store is now optimized for the Safari Web browser on the iPhone. When customers who use the Kindle for iPhone app click on “Get Books,” the Kindle Store—adjusted for the size and shape of the iPhone and iPod touch screens—opens in Safari. Customers can then access to the store’s 280,000 books. Read on »

Candlewick Moves Special Sales to Random
By Judith Rosen
Candlewick Press in Somerville, Mass., is extending its distribution arrangement with Random House, which already handles its back-office, by adding special sales. Under a new agreement, which went into effect at the beginning of May, Random House will oversee Candlewick’s sales into the specialty retail and wholesale area, as well as premium and gift trade. Candlewick will continue to manage sales in all other channels, including national accounts, traditional bookstores and wholesalers, mass market, nonprofit literacy accounts, display marketers, and school and library accounts.

Web Exclusive Reviews
On the Web this week: journalist Eric Boehlert charts the political blogosphere, Uyghur activist-politician Rebiya Kadeer fights for her China-controlled homeland, the secrets of Lisa Rinna's resilience, and new fiction from James Patterson, Maxine Paetro and Cristina Henríquez. Plus: PBS's Elizabeth Brackett gives the crash pub a good name with her in-depth Blagojevich investigation. Read on »

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Job Moves
Aaron Wehner has been promoted to v-p and publisher of Ten Speed Press. Wehner, who assumed the role of acting publisher of the house last year, started at Ten Speed in 1997 as publisher's assistant. He's worked with such authors as Richard Nelson Bolles (What Color Is Your Parachute?), Mollie Katzen (The Moosewood Cookbook) and Peter Reinhart (The Bread Baker's Apprentice).

Steve Troha has joined Folio Literary Management as an agent. Troha was most recently at Vigliano Associates and, before that, was associate director of publicity for St. Martin’s Press.

Comings and Goings
If you've been laid off or recently left your job and would like to pass along your contact information to others in the business, send details to pwletters@reedbusiness.com. Please include your full name and former title/company.

Tessa Aye, former associate designer and assistant editor at Arcade Publishing, can be reached at tessaaye@yahoo.com.

Casey Ebro, former editor and publicity associate at Arcade Publishing, can be reached at caseyebro@yahoo.com.

Ann Patty, former executive editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, can be reached at annpatty@frontiernet.net.

You can find a full list of all those who have appeared in Comings and Goings here.

The PW Morning Report
Washington Post in Talks with Google; IDPF’s E-Book Stimulus Plan; LSU Press in Danger; Final Wallace Novel Sold in UK; Missing Poet Confirmed Dead. Read on »

AUTHORS ON THE AIR

Authors on the Air: Mariel's Kitchen; In Her Own Sweet Time; Born to Be Hurt
On this morning’s Today show: actress and model Mariel Hemingway, whose Mariel's Kitchen: Simple Ingredients for a Delicious and Satisfying Life (HarperOne, 978-0061649875, $32.99) pubbed last week. PW said “Hemingway proves that healthy food can be enticing, and her dishes will appeal to even the least health-conscious among us.” Read on »

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The Stars Come Out for Rodoreda
At an event last weekend, during the PEN Festival, Jessica Lange and Carles Torner (from the Institut Ramon Llull) came out to a publication party honoring Merce Rodoreda, whose Death In Spring was just published by Open Letter Press. Open Letter’s Chad Post (l.) is pictured here with Lange and Torner.
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