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  • Adaptive Studios Revives Abandoned Content

    Adaptive Studios is an unusual venture that looks to find abandoned intellectual property and revive it for production in a wide variety of media. The venture has launched Adaptive Books and released its first title this month.

  • Space for Rent

    A recent expansion by PWxyz provides opportunity for executive desk/small space office rental at PW's Manhattan office. We are looking for like-minded companies interested in the square footage at our headquarters on 23rd Street. Send inquires to hr@publishersweekly.com.

  • A Landmark Win For ‘Mundo Cruel’

    At the ceremony for the 26th annual Lambda Literary Awards at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York City on June 2, Luis Negrón, a bookseller from Santurce, Puerto Rico, accepted the Gay General Fiction prize for his debut work, "Mundo Cruel."

  • News Briefs: Week of June 16, 2014

    Bookstore sales fell 1.3% in April and more in this week's publishing news briefs.

  • HBG Closes Business Plus

    As part of the staff reductions announced last week by the Hachette Book Group, the company is closing its Business Plus imprint and folding the titles into the Grand Central Publishing list.

  • HarperCollinsCanada Launches New Imprint

    HarperCollinsCanada has unveiled a new imprint, HarperAvenue, for "must-read" Canadian and international fiction and nonfiction.

  • Square One Title Surveys Arthur Conan Doyle and Jack the Ripper

    Nonfiction house Square One Publishers is breaking into the true crime category with a hybrid nonfiction work that looks at the relationship between Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the legendary serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

  • Open Road Launches Series for Controversial Works

    Forbidden Bookshelf, a series devoted to "resurrecting books that focused on issues and events that are too often left in the dark," kicks off June 10.

  • Staying in the Loop

    It’s no secret that writing can be a solitary business. “People talk about just how isolating it used to be,” says author Angie Fox (the Accidental Demon Slayer series).

  • Green Writers Press Takes Local Approach

    Last April, writer, designer, and literary agent Dede Cummings had a dream that convinced her that she needed to do something to improve the environment.

  • News Briefs: Week of June 9, 2014

    PRH unveils new logo and more in this week's publishing news briefs.

  • ‘Dubliners’ At 100

    This year marks a century since the publication of "Dubliners" by James Joyce, and a year since writer and editor Thomas Morris struck on an idea to riff on the literary classic.

  • Hachette Makes Layoffs

    Amid continued attention (and press coverage) for its ongoing terms dispute with Amazon, Hachette has announced a round of layoffs.

  • S&S Adds InkedIn to Author Portal

    Simon & Schuster has launched InkedIn, a new online community for S&S authors that lets them hold one-on-one or group discussions on publishing related topics.

  • Columbia Staffs New Publishing Project

    Nicholas Lemann has hired Camille McDuffie as publisher and Jimmy So as editor at "Columbia Global Reports," a new publishing project dedicated to coverage and analysis of under-reported global issues.

  • Tracking Amazon: 'Special Heart' Skyrockets

    Bret Baier‘s book about the challenges his family faced caring for his son, who was born with congenital heart defects, "Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage, and Love," rose from 504,703 on Amazon's bestseller list to 143 on Tuesday afternoon, a 352,839% increase.

  • PRH Unveils New Logo

    Penguin Random House has introduced its newly designed logo, replacing the interim PRH logo which has been in place for the past 11 months, since the merger was made official.

  • Learn a Fictional Language from Game of Thrones

    Living Language has partnered with HBO Global Licensing to offer a course in Dothraki, a language from George R.R. Martin's popular series.

  • News Briefs: Week of June 2, 2014

    BAM has flat quarter, adds HBG site and more in this week's publishing news briefs.

  • Harper Settles in Downtown

    HarperCollins has moved into its new global headquarters at 195 Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District.

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