Job Moves: May 17, 2012

Tracking Amazon: Big Names Dominate Kindle Singles

Max Sound to Launch Online Audiobook Store

Authors on the Air May 17, 2012: Teresa Giudice, Lisa Bloom

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Trajectory To Publish Original Classics Illustrated Comics in Digital Formats

2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award Goes to Hailey Leithauser

Super Folk: Marvel’s “First X-Men,” DC Annuals, Hellboy in Hell, New Series from IDW and Dynamite

How Cartoon Network Became A Haven For Some Of The Best Independent Comic Book Creators Working Today

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In New Anthology, LGBT Authors Speak to Their Younger Selves

Children’s Book Week 2012: In Pictures and by the Numbers

National Picture Book Week Migrates to Blog

Giving Birth to 'Bitterblue'

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NetRead Forms Digital Distribution Service

Follett To Distribute Inkling Digital Textbooks

Peter Collingridge To Join Safari Books Online

Court Rejects Motions to Dismiss Class Action Against Apple, Publishers

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Meshcheryakov on Cooking and Children's Books: Publishing in Russia 2012

Content Services 2012: Balancing Aesthetics and Subjectivity in Creative Services

Publishing in Russia 2012: Peter Mayer on Publishing and Promoting Russian Works

Publishing in Russia 2012: The Debut Prize and Young Russian authors

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Oh, The Places We Went: My Travels with Jean

Oliver Jeffers: A U.S./U.K. Production

Obituary: Jean Craighead George

A Conversation With Carlos Fuentes

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The names at the top of Amazon's Kindle Singles page are familiar to anyone who's looked at any bestseller list in the last few years, showing that well-known names like Baldacci and DeMille are publishing on the digital short platform, too, and that they may even have an advantage.

CreateSpace Offers Worldwide Distribution
Amazon’s self-publishing subsidiary CreateSpace announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use its publishing platform to distribute their books in Europe for free on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es and Amazon.it.

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Red Wheel/Weiser, the metaphysical and self-help book publisher, has joined On Demand Books’ growing Espresso Book Machine program (EBM), via arrangement with Lightning Source.

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