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Obituary: Bill Wallace

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Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition

Tracking Amazon: McBain's 87th Precinct Gets Windowed

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Fiction, Nonfiction Mix it Up: International Bestsellers January 2012

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LATEST STORIES
Books-A-Million Won't Carry Amazon Titles

Books-A-Million has joined with Barnes & Noble and will not carry Amazon Publishing titles, including those published under Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s New Harvest imprint, a BAM executive confirmed to PW.
End of the Line for Dorchester?

Hannah Wolfson, marketing & publicity coordinator at Dorchester, told PW the company is reorganizing and reassessing, and the future of both the e-book and trade paperback lines will be decided by the end of the month.
Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition

There is a growing crisis in the academic monograph marketplace, but organizations are rallying to devise new solutions.
Riverhead Buys Debut Novel In Rumored Seven Figure Deal

In a major deal, Riverhead’s Sarah McGrath bought the buzzed-about Depression-era debut novel by Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.
Job of the Day
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Perseus Books is looking for a Contracts Manager. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone.
PICK OF THE WEEK

The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
In Tyler’s elegant 19th novel, Aaron is an editor at a vanity press with a crippled right arm and leg who thinks of himself as “unluckier but no unhappier” than anyone else. He meets Dorothy, a brisk, no nonsense doctor, while editing a medical tome, and they fall in love, marry, and muddle along until Dorothy dies in an accident that nearly destroys their home.
THIS WEEK'S PRINT ISSUE

This week's print issue of PW
In this week's issue, we look at book app developers, run down what happened at ALA and DBW, talk to the winners of the big children's book prizes, talk to authors and more.

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Dial Signs William Wegman for Publishing Program
After a hiatus of nearly seven years, artist and author William Wegman is returning to children's books.

Next Chapter to Open in Vermont
Barre, Vt., won't be without a bookstore for long. Next Chapter plans to open in mid-February in the space vacated by Barre Books, which closed at the end of the year.

Obituary: Gerald Harrison
Gerald (Jerry) Harrison, former president of the children's book division of Random House, died on January 19. He was 83.

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