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S&S Gives Hurricane Relief
Simon & Schuster has offered 500 "best of" titles to any public or school library damaged by Hurricane Sandy in order to help in the restoration of their collections.
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Melville House Goes Subscription for Backlist Series
The independent publisher Melville House is hoping to entice readers to its classics series, The Art of the Novella, through a subscription offer that gives readers both print and digital copies.
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PW Panel on Cookbook Set for Nov. 16
Join PW for Breakfast with our Discussion Series on Nov 16th: "The Digital Kitchen: Adapting Cookbooks in the App Age."
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YUP Creates POD Program for Out-of-Print Titles
Yale University Press has launched a print on demand program for its art and architecture titles, featuring 140 out of print books originally published by the Metropolitan Museum.
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Distribution: Viz Renews with S&S
Viz Media has renewed its distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster under which S&S will continue to manage distribution for all of Viz Media’s imprints.
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Petraeus Biographer Had Unique Access
CIA director David Petraeus resigned Friday after admitting he had an affair with his biographer.
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News Briefs: Week of November 12, 2012
S&S Quarter Down 5% and more
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday November 9, 2012
A look at how authors and publishers are turning to platforms like Smashwords that publish and sell e-books, and taking advantage of digitally-devoted distribution services. Listen here.
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Rowman & Littlefield, Medical Library Association Strike Publishing Agreement
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group (RLPG) and the Medical Library Association (MLA) this week announced a new co-publishing partnership that will yield “new book projects” and “explore opportunities in innovative publishing formats and reaching wider audiences.”
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Amazon Says Glitch Caused Loss of Buy Buttons
Amazon issued a statement this morning saying the loss of buy buttons for e-books from a number of major houses was the result of a "technical issue" and that all buttons have been restored.
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Children's Art Auction Battles Through Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy has driven the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) from its office building in lower Manhattan, but ABFFE is continuing its preparations for a Holiday Children’s Art Auction that will launch on eBay on Nov. 27.
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Tracking Amazon: Nate Silver Can't Top Wimpy Kid
Despite all of the attention Nate Silver has received since correctly predicting the 2012 election, his book, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't, couldn't top Jeff Kinney's The Third Wheel, which is still Amazon's #1 bestseller.
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Leaver Asks Quarto Stakeholders to Unite and Move Forward
Following the shareholder vote that replaced Quarto Group cofounder and chief executive Laurence Orbach with Tim Chadwick, Quarto president and COO Marcus Leaver sent a letter to employees and other Quarto stakeholders urging all parties to unite behind him and the senior management team.
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Orbach Replaced by Chadwick at Quarto
At the special meeting of Quarto shareholders held today, company cofounder and CEO Laurence Orbach was removed as a director of the publishing company and replaced by Tim Chadwick.
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Tracking Amazon: Patriotic Books Rise, But So Do Christmas Books
The morning following Election Day saw, predictably, a rise in patriotic and political books on Amazon. But Christmas books also saw a spike in interest and, oddly enough, the two categories seem to be divided along format lines.
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Bellevue Literary Press Moves In with Perseus
With its offices at Bellevue Hospital “locked down” because of problems caused by Hurricane Sandy, Bellevue Literary Press has moved to temporary quarters in the offices of its distributor, Perseus Books Group.
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Media App Summit Set for December 3
Join PW and fellow publishers, developers, editors, and entrepreneurs at Media App Summit, December 3 in New York City.
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Pegasus Launches Classics Line With Open Road
Pegasus Books, the indie which already distributes its e-books through Open Road, is expanding its partnership with the digital publisher.
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Tracking Amazon: Amazon Prime Monthly Subscription Launches
Amazon has started offering a monthly subscription option for Amazon Prime, priced at $7.99. The yearly price is $79.
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News Briefs: Week of 11/5/12
Results Drop at McGraw-Hill and more



