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'Los Angeles Review of Books' Debuts Print Edition
One year after launching its full Web site, the Los Angeles Review of Books has published its first print edition and plans to make it a perfect bound quarterly.
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Ruckus Gets National Science Foundation Grant
Ruckus Media Group, an independent family entertainment company, has received a grant from the United States National Science Foundation to build Read Together While Apart Technology.
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'Inferno' Has Huge Debut, But Below 'The Lost Symbol'
Dan Brown's Inferno posted a massive debut, selling 369,000 copies at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. But how did it compare to the first week sales of his last novel?
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Orbit Announces Moves for Holman, Clarke
Tim Holman, SVP and publisher of the Orbit division at Hachette Book Group in the U.S. and the Orbit imprint of Little, Brown Book Group in the U.K., will be returning to the U.K. with his family later this year. Anne Clarke, currently editorial director of Orbit in the U.K., will relocate from London to New York and take up the role of deputy publisher, reporting to Holman.
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Michigan Writers Series Takes to the Road
A group of Michigan authors took to the state’s highways this past weekend to take part in four unique literary events in four cities, as the Meijer Foundation commits $500,000 to sustain Wayne State University Press’s Made in Michigan Writers Series.
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Review: 'Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography--from Grantham to the Falklands' by Charles Moore
PW's review of Moore's "richly detailed narrative" of Thatcher's life benefits from "prickly interviews" and ultimately portrays a "multidimensional, conflicted figure."
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Marysue Rucci: Moving Beyond ‘Little Bee’
Marysue Rucci said the moment that changed her career came in 1996. At the time she worked for Lisa Drew Books, a now-defunct imprint of Scribner, as an assistant.
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Sookie Stackhouse, Duck Dynasty Top Bestseller List
Charlaine Harris's last Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead Ever After, took #1 on Nielsen BookScan, selling 85,00 copies in the week ending May 12.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Inferno' Still Hot
Dan Brown's Inferno is, unsurprisingly, holding its #1 spot on both the print and e-book bestseller lists on Amazon, as of May 15.
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MPS Acquires Element, Adds K-12 Capability
MPS Limited has reached an agreement to acquire Element, a U.S.-based, full-service editorial, design, and production service provider to the K-12 publishing market.
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Broadway Books Gets New Logo
Crown Publishers, has unveiled a new logo for its paperback unit, Broadway Books.
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Review: 'The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies' by Jonathan Alter
PW's review of Jonathan Alter's book on Obama's 2012 campaign calls it "engrossing," "entertaining," and "savvy."
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Tantor Out with 'Behind the Candelabra' in Three Formats
Tantor Media did an initial first printing of 20,000 copies for Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace. The book is the basis for the May 26 HBO movie Behind the Candelabra and Tantor director of rights and acquisitions Ron Formica acquired print, e-book and audio rights after discovering the book had been out-of-print.
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Attention, Publishers: Book Industry Survey Requests Data
The Book Industry Environmental Council has launched surveys for publishers, printers and paper manufacturers involved in the U.S. book industry. The surveys will remain open until June 19th and ask questions that will allow for continued tracking of the progress the book industry has made towards reducing its environmental footprint. Click through to participate.
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Pat Conroy Named Editor-at-Large for USC Press
The University of South Carolina Press (USC Press) has named bestselling author Pat Conroy editor-at-large of Story River Books, their new South Carolina-based original fiction series.
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News Briefs: Week of May 13, 2013
HMH Cuts Loss and more
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After 37 Years, Winton Steps Back
After spending 37 years in the publishing industry, including the last five as chairman, CEO, and publisher of Counterpoint LLC, Charlie Winton turned over the publisher reins at the press to Rolph Blythe on May 1.
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Podcast: Books Make Good Listening
The idea is often advanced that the rise of video on the Web will undermine reading habits – and that in a contest of pictures over words, the words will come out the loser. The jury is still out, but the spoken word has long enjoyed a warm relationship with books, and in 2013, that remains true. Listen here.
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Amanda Knox Book Underwhelms; 'Gatsby' Hot
Amanda Knox's Waiting to Be Heard debuted as the #1 nonfiction hardcover, but #9 on the bestseller list overall, selling 21,264 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan, for the week ending May 5.
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Dutch Publisher Goes DIY
The Arbeiderspers/A.W. Bruna Publishers' release of marketing book and iPad app Earned Attention marks a large scale publishing bridge between the Netherlands and the U.S.
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