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Author, Publisher Hope Obama Will Jumpstart Sales
A small press and an author hope that a letter from President Obama will jumpstart sales of John Presta’s 2010 release, Mr. and Mrs Grassroots: How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners and 300 Volunteers Did It.
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Canadian Indie Publisher Gears Up to Run Two Houses
Cormorant Books publisher takes on the challenge of new role as publisher of Thomas Allen & Son.
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Call for Information: Parenting and Child Care
Needed: Publishers’/editors’ written comments on the newest trends in this category— what kinds of books are working in the marketplace, and which are not?
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Troubles Pile Up at South End
Two years after South End Press left its long-time Cambridge, Mass., home for Brooklyn, the 35-year-old nonprofit publisher could close.
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Penguin Press To Publish Phil Jackson Memoir
The Penguin Press has acquired legendary coach Phil Jackson's memoir Eleven Rings, his account of the 11 NBA championships he won as a coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers.
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BAM Picks CoverCake to Track Social Media Book Data
Books-A-Million is teaming up with CoverCake, a startup venture focused on title discovery and analytics that can track book trends and overall online interest in titles and publishers across multiple social media platforms.
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Busted Flush to Close
After calling off a proposed merger of Busted Flush Press following the sudden death of her husband, press founder David Thompson in fall 2010, McKenna Jordan will close it by year's end.
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Censorship Battle Flares Up in Tucson School District
A number of national organizations have come together to protest the banning of certain books in the Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District.
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Results Down at Educational Development Corp.
Total revenue fell 8.4%, to $8.7 million at Educational Development Corp. in the third quarter ended November 30 and earnings slipped to $724,900 from $776,900 in the comparable quarter last year.
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Malcolm Gladwell to Give AAP Closing Address
Malcolm Gladwell has been tapped to give the closing speech at the AAP annual meeting on March 14.
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Tracking Amazon: Oscar Nominees See Book Sales Bump
Coming off last week's announcement of this year's Academy Award nominations, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik has seen the greatest sales bump out of all the nominees that are based on books.
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Harlequin Acquires Heartsong Presents
Harlequin has acquired the book club assets of Heartsong Presents Book Club, the inspiration book club owned by the Christian publisher Barbour Publishing.
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News Briefs
NBC News Forms Publishing Unit
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Ig Publishing Marks a Decade
Founded in 2002 by the husband and wife team of Robert Lasner and Elizabeth Clementson, Brooklyn independent Ig Publishing is celebrating its 10th anniversary against all the odds. The house debuted with For Fuck’s Sake, a novel by Lasner, which did so well at the time, Lassner said, “We both thought, hey, publishing is easy.”
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, January 27
Returning from ALA’s midwinter meeting, which included the annual presentations of the Caldecott and Newbery prizes, PW’s Features Editor Andrew Albanese notes the number of issues facing libraries these days —from budget stress and complex technology, to copyright and legislative issues.
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Red Wheel/Weiser Enters Self Publishing with Turning Stone Press
Red Wheel/Weiser Conari Press, in collaboration with Hampton Roads and Hierophant Publishing, are entering the self-publishing market for spiritual and self-help authors, forming Turning Stone Press.
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Tracking Amazon: Arguing with Obama Propels Brewer's Sales
The day after Governor Jan Brewer was photographed waving her finger in President Obama's face on the tarmac of the Phoenix airport, her book Scorpions for Breakfast moved to #21 on Amazon's bestseller list.
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BookBrunch Adds New Management
BookBrunch, the U.K. daily e-mail and Web site that provides news and views from the U.K. book industry, has named Eric Green CEO and Cortina Butler interim managing director. Liz Thomson and Nicholas Clee, who cofounded BookBrunch four years ago, remain joint editors.
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Feeding Your Brain Junk: Q&A with Clay Johnson, Author of 'The Information Diet'
Clay Johnson talks to PW about the dangers of processed information, and what we can do to be smarter about information consumption.
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