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'Mueller Report' Has Third Bestseller
Melville House’s mass market paperback edition of 'The Mueller Report' sold 13,538 copies in its first week on sale at outlets that report to NPD BookScan, easily making it BookScan’s top-selling mass market paperback last week.
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Michael Wolff Returns With a Sequel to 'Fire and Fury'
Henry Holt will publish 'Siege: Trump Under Fire' on June 4.
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FSG Nabs Chelsea Manning's Memoir
Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish Chelsea Manning's memoir in winter 2020. Acquiring editor Colin Dickerman said the memoir “will, for the first time, allow readers to experience the full depth, breadth, and weight of her journey."
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Big Trade Houses Start 2019 Strong
Four major publishers posted first-quarter gains—and some of them were huge.
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Patreon Looks to Satisfy Creators and Investors
The membership-powered crowdfunding website has added new service tiers and pricing beginning this month for new members, including new pro and premium levels designed for high-volume creative projects.
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Publishers Turn to Chapbooks to Create Buzz
In an increasingly digital era, a handful of publishers are opting for a decidedly analog marketing tool for some of their bigger titles: the chapbook.
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Rhode Island ACLU Sues Over Tax Law that Discriminates Against Nonfiction Authors
The suit revolves around a 2013 law designed to help creative workers in the state by offering authors, composers and artists in Rhode Island a sales tax exemption. But in a bizarre twist, the state’s tax officials have ruled that the tax break applies only to authors of fiction, because nonfiction is not “creative and original.”
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New Owner and Management Team for David R. Godine
Longtime Boston publisher David R. Godine is stepping down at the end of the year from his eponymous publishing house, and new owner William N. Thorndike is already beginning to shape the press.
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Chronicle Books Creates New Audio Unit
Chronicle Books is partnering with Hachette Audio to create audiobooks that, for the first time, will be marketed under the Chronicle Books brand.
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Mayo Clinic Launches Publishing Imprint
After working for decades with multiple publishers to publish health books for consumers, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is launching its own publishing imprint, Mayo Clinic Press. Its debut title will be released this fall.
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In Twist, Judge Orders B&N to Help Pay Former CEO's Legal Costs
Among three decisions handed down at a May 6 conference, Judge John G. Koeltl ruled that Barnes & Noble's countersuit against former CEO Demos Parneros can proceed. But in a twist, the judge held that an indemnification clause in Parneros's contract called for the company to advance Parneros's costs for defending against the suit.
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Sales, Profits Up in Q1 at S&S
Sales at Simon & Schuster rose 3% in the first quarter of 2019 over the comparable period in 2018, rising to $164 million from $160 million a year ago. Operating income increased 6%, to $17 million.
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Hanover Square Brings Net Force Back
The press will relaunch the bestselling series, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, this fall. The deal is for four print novels and four e-novellas.
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Penguin Classics Launches Asian-American Classics Line
The publisher will release four canonical novels by Asian-American authors on May 21.
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Author of Novel Pulled by Dzanc Books Makes It Available to Readers
Hesh Kestin, the author of 'Siege of Tel Aviv,' the controversial novel about the destruction of Israel that was pulled by Dzanc Books earlier this week, is making a digital edition of the book available to readers on his website.
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BISG Annual Meeting Examines Paper and Printing Challenges
The BISG annual meeting, held April 26 at the Harvard Club in New York City, opened with a panel focused on the challenge of meeting demands for paper and printing after a year of dramatic declines in paper capacity in 2018.
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Community Service Day Brings Out the Best in HBG Employees
At a New York City Meals on Wheels location, volunteers delivered food to those in need.
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Is the Next Big Idea Club the Next Big Thing?
Although serial entrepreneur Rufus Griscom has a background in books, he had no intention of getting into the book business when he launched a new venture, Heleo, in 2015. With the Next Big Idea Club, that's changed.
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First National Antiracist Book Festival Launched by National Book Award Winner
Ibram Kendi, who received the 2016 National Book Award for his book 'Stamped From the Beginning,' has launched the first National Antiracist Book Festival, to be held April 27 at American University in Washington, D.C.
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Dzanc Drops Novel Criticized for Islamophobic Themes
Dzanc Books responded to a week of controversy aroused by a new release, 'Siege of Tel Aviv,' by reverting the rights back to the author, Hesh Kestin.
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