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The Author as Entrepreneur
Samuel Johnson famously said “no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
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Indie Presses Donate Royalties to Fight Censorship
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) has received an initial payment of $4,750 in royalties from the sale of Read This! Handpicked Favorites from America’s Indie Bookstores, which was published by Coffee House Press in September. Coffee House Press is donating to ABFFE all of the royalties from the sale of Read This!
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New Harbinger Stays True to Its Roots
When New Harbinger Publications cofounders Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning were establishing their small press in 1973, it was Fanning’s monthly reading of Popular Mechanics magazine that served as a step-by-step guide to book publishing for the partners.
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Patty Marks: Sex, Romance, and Erotic Bestsellers
The beginnings of Ellora’s Cave, the Akron, Ohio–based publisher of erotic romance fiction, have become something of a publishing business legend. Tina M. Engler, a single mom at the time, began writing the kind of romance novels she wanted to read—novels written with explicit descriptions of sexual encounters—and sent them off to various romance houses, hoping to find a publisher. When her books were all rejected—invariably because of the graphic sex scenes—she decided to publish them herself. Engler, who continues to write and publish fiction for Ellora’s Cave under the name Jaid Black, began selling her work as e-books in 2000, launched Ellora’s Cave in 2001, and had about $30,000 in sales that first year.
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'Los Angeles Review of Books' Debuts Print Edition
One year after launching its full Web site, the Los Angeles Review of Books has published its first print edition and plans to make it a perfect bound quarterly.
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Ruckus Gets National Science Foundation Grant
Ruckus Media Group, an independent family entertainment company, has received a grant from the United States National Science Foundation to build Read Together While Apart Technology.
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'Inferno' Has Huge Debut, But Below 'The Lost Symbol'
Dan Brown's Inferno posted a massive debut, selling 369,000 copies at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. But how did it compare to the first week sales of his last novel?
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Orbit Announces Moves for Holman, Clarke
Tim Holman, SVP and publisher of the Orbit division at Hachette Book Group in the U.S. and the Orbit imprint of Little, Brown Book Group in the U.K., will be returning to the U.K. with his family later this year. Anne Clarke, currently editorial director of Orbit in the U.K., will relocate from London to New York and take up the role of deputy publisher, reporting to Holman.
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Michigan Writers Series Takes to the Road
A group of Michigan authors took to the state’s highways this past weekend to take part in four unique literary events in four cities, as the Meijer Foundation commits $500,000 to sustain Wayne State University Press’s Made in Michigan Writers Series.
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Review: 'Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography--from Grantham to the Falklands' by Charles Moore
PW's review of Moore's "richly detailed narrative" of Thatcher's life benefits from "prickly interviews" and ultimately portrays a "multidimensional, conflicted figure."
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