News Corp. Split Set for June 28
As expected, the News Corp. board of directors has approved the division of the media giant into two separate companies. more...Ingram Expands Printing Offerings
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Publisher News
News Briefs: Week of May 25, 2013
Amazon Debuts Fan Fiction Program and more
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Licensing
Moving at Warp Speed
The Star Trek publishing program, anchored by Pocket Books for fiction and other formats and IDW for comic books, has exploded in the last few years.
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Publisher News
The Author as Entrepreneur
Samuel Johnson famously said “no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
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Bookselling
Rowman & Littlefield Launches E-bookstore
Rowman & Littlefield has opened its e-bookstore, going live with roughly 12,000 titles.
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Manufacturing
Ingram Expands Printing Offerings
Ingram is expanding the scope of the printing services it is offering to publishers through the launch of a program it is calling Life Print.
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Bookselling
Updates for Indies: Powell's Renovates; Politics & Prose Launches Lit Mag
Powell's Books is doing a "seismic" update to its flagship store, which occupies a city block in Portland; Politics & Prose launches literary journal.
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Shows & Events
ABFFE Auction Deadline
The last chance to bid in the ABFFE's annual children's book art online auction is the morning of May 25. A preview of the art can be found here.
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Manufacturing
Distribution: Midpoint and Changing Lives Press Agree
Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with Changing Lives Press, a New York-based publisher of self-help titles.
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People
Authors on the Air May 24, 2013: Richard Rubin, Patrick Smith
Richard Rubin will discuss PW Pick The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547554433) on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Patrick Smith, author of Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections (Sourcebooks, 9781402280917), will be a guest on NPR’s Weekend Edition on May 25.
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People
Job Moves: May 24, 2013
Ryan Doherty is joining Ballantine Bantam Dell as a senior editor, reporting to editorial director, non-fiction, Jennifer Tung.
At Random House, Andy Ward is now v-p, editorial director, nonfiction and David Ebershoff is v-p, executive editor.
At Crown, Suzanne O’Neill has been promoted to executive editor; Talia Krohn has been promoted to senior editor; Stephanie Knapp has been promoted to associate editor.
Former Bookazine buyer Dennis Haritou has moved to Litbreaker Ad Network as director of business development.
