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Global Publishing Leaders 2014: Bonnier
The Bonnier Group is a family-owned international media group based in Sweden with 160 companies in 16 countries.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2014: Groupe Albin Michel
Albin Michel is one of France’s foremost literary and educational publishers.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2014: Abril Educação S/A
Abril Educação is an educational publishing and technology company under Abril S.A., the media division of Grupo Abril, a major Latin American communications group founded in 1950.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2014: Gallimard
Gallimard has been home to many of the most prestigious writers in French literature throughout the 20th century.
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Microcosm Inks Distribution Deal with Legato
In an agreement signed days before Perseus’ acquisition by Hachette, Microcosm Publishing, an alternative culture publisher and distributor, has signed a distribution deal with the Legato/Perseus distribution unit.
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Berrett-Koehler Heading to Oakland
Berrett-Koehler Publishers announced it will be relocating to Oakland after 22 years operating out of San Francisco.
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'Silkworm' Sells 21k in First Week
The second installment of J.K. Rowling's Cormoran Strike series (written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith) sold roughly 21,000 copies in its first partial week on sale, according to Nielsen BookScan.
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Ingram, Pietsch Reach Out to Perseus Staff
HBG CEO Michael Pietsch wrote that Perseus will become a "major new division" at HBG.
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Four Questions for...'Euphoria' Editor Elisabeth Schmitz
PW talked to the editor of Lily King's buzzed-about new novel, which bowed on June 3 and received a starred review from PW and may be adapted into a feature film.
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HBG, Ingram Buy Perseus
The Perseus Books Group is being sold to the Hachette Book Group which will sell the distribution business to Ingram.
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Bibliomotion Launches 30gurus Instructional Platform
Bibliomotion has teamed with Exploros, an educational technology developer, to launch 30gurus.com, a learning platform that allows authors to turn their books into educational courses.
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News Briefs: Week of June 23, 2014
Apple, states settle and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Holladay House, A Strange Object Debut
In 2012, three women who had been working in the book industry decided that the time was right to strike out on their own.
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Angry Robot Closes Two Imprints
U.K.-based Angry Robot Books is closing its young adult and crime/mystery imprints, effectively immediately.
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Cleis Launches Erotic Romance Imprint
Tempted Romance will publish 12 titles per year, beginning in September.
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Four Questions for...Coffee House's Caroline Casey
Caroline Casey, Coffee House Press managing director, talks to PW about Eimear McBride's debut novel, "A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing," which recently won this year's Baileys Women's Fiction Prize.
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Court Delays Hastings Merger Again
A judge has prevented the acquisition of Hastings from going forward before June 26.
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Duncan Baird Rebrands as Nourish
With an eye toward healthy cooking and living, U.K.-based Duncan Baird Publishing is rebranding itself as Nourish Books.
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Crown Unveils Automated Galley Access for Bloggers
Penguin Random House's Crown Publishing Group has launched an automated system to make its ARCs directly available to bloggers.
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Supreme Court Delivers Key Free Speech Decision
The decision affirms that a person, organization or business should not have to risk prosecution to challenge the Constitutionality of a law with First Amendment implications.



