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'Casual Vacancy' Sales Top 1 Million
Hachette, along with its UK publishing partner Little, Brown Book Group UK, are reporting that sales of J.K. Rowling's new book, The Casual Vacancy, have exceeded 1 million copies in the English language.
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'Dropping Acid' Jumps Up
Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure, a steady seller since it was first released in September 2010 by a company formed by Dr. Jamie Koufman, hit #23 on the Nielsen BookScan hardcover nonfiction bestseller list after Dr. Koufman was featured on the Dr. Oz Show.
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Harlequin Plans Contemporary Romance Imprint
Harlequin will introduce a new contemporary romance imprint next year, KISS, which the publisher describes as “fun, flirty and sensual romances.”
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News Briefs: Week of October 15, 2012
Ruling Backs Google Scans and more.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday October 12, 2012
We parse through the HathiTrust case and discuss the great book, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Listen here.
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CodeMantra and ePubDirect Announce Partnership
CodeMantra, a global supplier of publishing software and services, has reached an agreement with ePubDirect, a worldwide distributor of e-book content, to offer publishers an indirect distribution model.
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Disney Overhauls Paper Sourcing Policy
The Disney Company said Thursday that it is overhauling its paper sourcing policy in a change that will maximize recycled content and fibers sourced from Forest Stewardship Council-certified operations and eliminate paper products containing "irresponsibly harvest fiber, such as fiber from High Conservation Value Areas."
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Random House Plans Consumer Open House for November
In the latest example of a publisher going direct to readers, Random House will host a day-long event at its New York City headquarters that it hopes will attract 200 or so readers.
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Harper To Implement Global Publishing System
HarperCollins is to roll out a new global publishing system, which it claims is "one of the largest undertakings of its kind to be implemented by a trade publisher."
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Riordan, O'Reilly Post Huge Debuts
Rick Riordan's The Mark of Athena was the #1 bestseller by a wide margin for the week ending October 7. The book sold 240,000 copies, more than double the #2 bestseller, Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly, which sold 118,000 copies in its first week.
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Rinaldi to Oversee New Lifestyle Imprint at Harper, HarperWave
Karen Rinaldi, who joined HarperCollins in May without a clearly defined role at the publisher, has been given a formal job; she will be overseeing a new health and wellness imprint called HarperWave, which will be housed within the Harper group.
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Writers Groups Want Publisher-Google Terms Made Public
The American Society of Journalists and Authors, the National Writers Union, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America are calling on publishers and Google to make all the settlement terms public.
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Quercus to Expand in U.S.
Quercus, the London-based publisher whose roster of international successes includes Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, is poised to launch a U.S. publishing operation and has established a New York office in preparation for its debut lists set for autumn 2013.
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Gadsby to Head New International Division at Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group has hired former Continuum CEO Oliver Gadsby to head a new international academic publishing division. Roman & Littlefield International will be based in London.
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News Briefs: Week of October 8, 2012
B&N, Microsoft Complete Deal, and more.
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Paris Press Plans Special Edition of Woolf’s ‘On Being Ill’
In 2002, Paris Press, the Ashfield, Mass., nonprofit publisher, rescued a little-known work by Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill. The 64-page essay, originally published by Hogarth Press in 1930, about what it’s like to “cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright,” contained elements of autobiography and satire.
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Princeton University Press Launches Library of Jewish Ideas Series
The first title will publish on October 17.
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Mizzou Backs Down: Clair Willcox Reinstated as Editor-in-Chief
Willcox returned to his office Friday morning, and went to work, calling authors.
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HC Makes Changes to Product Development Team
The moves are intended to "increase product innovation, best-practice sharing, and scaling of successful ideas and projects."
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Geragotelis, S&S Prepare to Release 'Life's a Witch' Prequel
Brittany Geragotelis, who landed a three-book, six-figure deal with S&S after a PW story about her self-published YA debut, Life's a Witch, will publish a prequel with S&S, called What The Spell.
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