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Day's 'Entwined With You' Tops Charts
The third book in Sylvia Day's Crossfire series, Entwined With You, has sold over 550,000 copies (print and digital combined) in its first week on sale.
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UNC Press To Explore University Press Obstacles Through Grant
The University of North Carolina Press has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York to explore the obstacles and opportunities facing university presses as they seek to incorporate various forms of digital publishing.
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Apple Trial: B&N's Horner Touts Agency Model
Nook Media v-p of digital content Theresa Horner took the stand at the Apple e-book price fixing trial and the government and Apple clashed over questions about the profitability—or lack of it—in the e-book market of 2009-2010.
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Robert Kennedy Publishing Shuttered
Tosca Reno, president of Robert Kennedy Publishing, has announced that RKP's parent company is closing.
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Cue Counters DoJ Claims That the Fix Was In
Apple senior v-p Eddy Cue faced questions on inappropriate contact with publishers, claims that the iBookstore is a failure because of high prices and his description of S&S CEO Reidy, as “a leader,” and that he was “indebted” to her.
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New Home for Grove/Atlantic
As of June 24 Grove/Atlantic is moving to new offices. The new address is 154 West 14 Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10011.
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Hangman's Daughter Series Reaches 1 Million Copies Sold
Amazon Publishing today announced that Oliver Pötzsch, whose Hangman’s Daughter series includes The Hangman’s Daughter (2010), The Dark Monk (2012), and The Beggar King (2013), has become the first Amazon Publishing author to sell one million copies in combined print, audio, and Kindle English language editions worldwide.
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HBRP Moves Quickly to Promote 'The First 90 Days'
"The president of the United States gets 100 days to prove himself; you get 90,” saysMichael D. Watkins in the introduction to the tenth anniversary edition of The First 90 Days. Some might argue that publishers get even less.
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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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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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