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Podcast: Not Everyone Is An E.L. James Fan
If you think 40 million readers can’t be wrong, think again.
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New E-book House, Riverdale Avenue Books, to Launch in December
Veteran literary agent and publisher Lori Perkins is teaming with former Alyson Books publisher Donald Weise to launch Riverdale Avenue Books, a multi-imprint e-book and audiobook publisher set to launch December 17 with two nonfiction titles.
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HMH in Big Book Donations
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has made a $650,000 book donation to the Department of Children and Families in Massachusetts.
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Artbook | D.A.P. Opens New Showroom in Los Angeles
Artbook | D.A.P., the largest source for books on twentieth century art, photography, design, and architecture has opened a showroom for book and gift buyers in historic downtown Los Angeles
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Oprah Picks Ayana Mathis
Oprah's next pick is The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (Knopf). Said Winfrey: "The opening pages of Ayana’s debut took my breath away. I can’t remember when I read anything that moved me in quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison."
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PW Launches 'Publishers Weekly Radio' Show
December 6 will mark the debut of the weekly Publishers Weekly Radio show on SiriusXM Book Radio, Channel 80.
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Harlequin Teams With 'Cosmo' for Book Line
Harlequin is partnering with the women's magazine Cosmopolitan to publish a series of co- branded romance novels.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Gone Girl' Hits #1 After Price Drop
Six months after its publication date, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl has clawed its way back up to the #1 spot on Amazon, bringing Jeff Kinney's latest Wimpy Kid book off its perch.
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Vital Source Adds 60 New Publishers
Vital Source, Ingram's e-textbook solution for publishers, academic institutions, and students, has announced 60 publishers have added more than 35,000 new digital textbooks and online course materials to the VitalSource Bookshelf platform.
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'Hobbit' Scorches Social Media Circles
Comments surrounding The Hobbit as the film adaptation's release date approaches are "astronomical" in social media conversations, and top all other book-related discussions.
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Open Road and HowStuffWorks.com Partner for E-book Line
Open Road has partnered with HowStuffWorks to create a line of e-books drawn from the Web site's most popular content.
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Obituary: Christopher Davis
Christopher Davis, one of the founders of Dorling Kindersley, has died at the age of 71.
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HMH Appoints Short and Bronfin to Senior Leadership Team
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has appointed Mark Short as senior v-p and head of international markets and Wendy Bronfin as senior v-p, consumer products and marketing. Short comes from Pearson Education and Bronfin comes from Barnes & Noble.
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News Briefs: Week of December 3, 2012
McGraw-Hill Education Acquired and more
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Little, Brown Gives New Look to Waugh
On December 11, Little, Brown will reissue the 15 fiction works of Evelyn Waugh, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. The new editions will feature new covers for both paperback and hardcover formats and will tie in with the e-book editions of Waugh’s titles, available for the first time, for $9.99 for all digital formats. Among the 15 are the three novels selected for the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list: A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday November 30, 2012
Libraries are set to confront the e-book mess. Listen here.
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Kindle Direct Publishing Adds Holiday Bonus for Authors
Amazon announced that a bonus of $1.5 million has been added to the KDP Select global fund for the holiday season, on top of the regular monthly fund during the December-February period. December’s regular monthly fund is $700,000, plus $700,000 of the $1.5 million holiday bonus will be paid out for December, doubling the total amount available to authors in December to $1.4 million.
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Brian Kenney Joins 'PW' as Contributing Editor
Deepening its commitment to library issues, Publishers Weekly is pleased to announce the addition of Brian Kenney, formerly editorial director of Library Journal, SLJ, and The Horn Book, as a contributing editor and blogger. In his new role, Kenney will write a monthly column dedicated to exploring the dynamic relationship between publishers and libraries, will contribute blog posts and commentary, and will report from library conferences.
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Amazon Publishing to Expand in Europe, Kirshbaum Takes Larger U.S. Role
A letter from Jeff Belle announced that Vicky Griffith will relocate to Amazon Publishing's EU headquarters in Luxembourg and Larry Kirshbaum will assume editorial leadership for the Seattle and New York groups.



