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Q&A with Jimmy Carter: Around the World and Through the Bible
Former President Jimmy Carter has two books from Zondervan: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President (Jan.) and NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter (Mar.).
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PubWest Adds Members
PubWest has announced the addition of three publisher members and two associate members, all located in Arizona.
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Ingram and Better World Books Launch Library Return Program
Through a new program developed by Ingram and Better World Books, libraries can turn old materials into new sources of acquisition money.
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NBC News Forms Publishing Division
NBC News has announced that it has formed NBC Publishing to to create their own digital books and has hired two publishing veterans to lead its new efforts: Peter Costanz and Brian Perrin.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Entrepreneurial Thinking' Tops Bestseller Chart
The number one book on Amazon's bestseller list, topping the three Hunger Games books is The 4 Essentials of Entrepreneurial Thinking: What Successful People Didn't Learn in School (Greenleaf, 978-0615450551) by Cliff Michaels.
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Wi7 Booksellers Get Sneak Preview of Orson & Co.'s Literary App
Booksellers attending Wi7 had mixed reactions to a sneak preview of Orson & Co.'s new literary app, which will be released this spring.
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Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Award Contest Opens for Submissions
Amazon and Penguin have opened submissions for the fifth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, which gives two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for young adult fiction.
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Amended Price Fixing Complaint Ramps Up Pressure on Publishers, Apple
In an amended complaint filed January 20, Hagens Berman, the law firm chosen in December to consolidate the class action lawsuits charging that Apple and major publishers conspired to fix e-book prices, detailed its take on how Apple and five publishers worked together to raise e-book prices.
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News Briefs: Week of January 23, 2012
Grand Central to Launch Digital Imprint and more.
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African-American Indie Bookstores: Hanging Tough
In business for a total of 122 years, four well-known African-American–owned bookstores—Eso Won (22 years); Hue-Man (10 years); Marcus Book Stores (52 years); and the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore (37 years)—are no strangers to economic ups and downs.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, January 20
In a week that saw Apple go to school, lawmakers on Capitol Hill watched Wikipedia go dark in opposition to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act.
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Tracking Amazon: Kennedy Confidant is Amazon's Only Bestselling Preorder
There is only one pre-order book in Amazon's top 100 bestseller: Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss by RoseMarie Terenzio, which was at #68 as of the afternoon of January 19.
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PW Review: 'Enemies: A History of the FBI' by Tim Weiner
Drawing on newly released documents, Tim Weiner follows the Bureau’s century-long war against foreign spies, terrorists domestic and foreign, and alleged domestic “subversives” from communists to civil rights activists.
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Grand Central to Launch Digital Romance Imprint
Grand Central Publishing is launching a romance digital imprint next month. Forever Yours will publish new works as well as backlist titles from its nine-year-old Forever imprint.
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ECW Press Experiments with Free E-books for Print Customers
ECW Press experiments with giving away e-books with print book sales.
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Tracking Amazon: Mark R. Levin Hits Number One
Conservative nationally syndicated radio-talk-show host and president of the Landmark Legal Foundation Mark R. Levin had the number one book on Amazon's bestseller list, as of the afternoon of January 18.
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Cemetery Dance Launches 'All You Can Read' E-book Promotion
Cemetery Dance Publications has launched its 2012 e-book membership with an "all you can read" plan, allowing subscribers to reader all Cemetery Dance e-book titles.
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Disney Publishing Crosses Seven Million Apps Downloaded
Disney Publishing Worldwide has passed seven million App Store downloads, and currently has six apps on the charts in the books, entertainment, and education categories.
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Distribution: Bookmasters Signs Nowtilus for U.S. & Canada
Bookmasters has entered into an agreement with Spanish publisher Nowtilus Publishing to distribute their titles in the U.S. and Canada.
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Tracking Amazon: 'The End of Illness' Gets Unprecedented Coverage, Sales Spike
The End of Illness by David B. Agus is #4 in hardcover and #33 in the paid Kindle Store on Amazon, likely due to the extensive coverage from media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and a segment on ABC'sWorld News with Diane Sawyer.