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Tracking Amazon: How Well Do Kindle Singles Sell?
The top two bestselling Kindle Singles titles have cracked the regular Kindle top 100--as of the morning of June 28.
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'50 Shades' Sales Slow
Sales of the first book in the series are down 5%, and the sales for the box set are down 45%, according to Nielsen BookScan.
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Tracking Amazon: Nora Ephron Books Jump
In the morning after her death, three of Nora Ephron's books have seen a substantial increase in sales and are all in Amazon's top five Movers & Shakers.
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'50 Ways To Play' E-Book Rides 50 Shades Wave
Tarcher/Penguin will release the e-book version of 50 Ways to Play: BDSM for Nice People on June 29, with the paperback to follow on August 2.
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Morgan James Launches Speakers Bureau
Looking to give its authors a boost on the press circuit, Morgan James Publishing’s founder and CEO, David Hancock, has announced the launch of an in-house Speakers Bureau.
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Authors Guild Sees Return of Predatory Pricing if DoJ Deal Stands
With the time to submit comments to the DoJ about its settlement with publishers over its e-book pricing fixing case almost up, the Authors Guild filed its comments late Monday and minced no words in saying that the agreement would be a huge victory for Amazon.
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Ruppel to Head McGraw-Hill Education International
New McGraw-Hill Education CEO Lloyd "Buzz" Waterhouse" has announced a restructuring of the company's international business in order to create an integrated organization that leverages content.
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'Fahrenheit 451' Keeps Selling Following Bradbury's Death
Since Ray Bradbury's death on June 5, his most famous work has been steadily increasing in sales.
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Agency vs. Wholesale Webcast Announced
O'Reilly is hosting a webcast, "Agency vs. Wholesale Model: Which One Is Best?" featuring Don Linn, president of Firebrand Associates, and Joe Wikert, general manager and publisher at O'Reilly.
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Indie Publishers Back Agency Model, Criticize DoJ Deal
Nine independent publishers have combined to file joint comments objecting to the pending settlements of the Department of Justice's lawsuit with Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster related to e-book pricing.
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Thomson-Shore and Clays Ltd. Agree
The global print initiative gives both printers access to each other’s market.
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HMH Out of Chapter 11
After receiving court approval for its restructuring plan last Thursday, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced late Friday that it had completed its financial restructuring and emerged from its Chapter 11.
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June 3 is Trial Date for E-book Antitrust Case
After weighing different proposals from the parties involved, Judge Denise Cote has set June 3, 2013 as the date for the Department of Justice’s e-book price fixing case against Apple, Penguin and Macmillan to begin.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Becoming Sister Wives' Skyrockets Following TV Special
On June 24, TLC aired the mid-season finale of Sister Wives and then immediately followed with NBC News' Natalie Morales interview with Kody Brown and his wives.
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News Briefs: Week of June 25, 2012
Harper Realigns Sales Group and more
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‘The Art Forger:’ Can Lightning Strike Twice for Algonquin?
In a day and age when computer data rule book ordering and midlist authors can be penalized for their track records, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill is trying to give Barbara Shapiro a fresh start for The Art Forger. It’s a tack that the press, an imprint of Workman Publishing, used successfully six years ago when it bought Sara Gruen’s novel about the world of the circus. Water for Elephants became a huge hit and was turned into a movie. Although Algonquin never claimed that the book, which was widely embraced by independent booksellers, was Gruen’s first, it did nothing to promote the fact that she had previously published two others, Flying Horses and Riding Lessons.
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Margins Up At Wiley
Although total sales for the fiscal year ended April 30 rose only 2%, to $1.79 billion, at John Wiley, operating income increased 13%, to $280.4 million, boosting the company’s operating margin to 15.7%. Wiley said 40% of its revenue came from digital products and the company will continue to focus on publishing “must have” information. That focus led to the purchase earlier in the fiscal year of Inscape Holdings and the decision to put up for sale some consumer assets (travel, culinary, general interest, nautical, pets, crafts, Webster’s New World, and Cliff’s Notes), which had sales in fiscal 2012 of $80 million and a $6 million contribution to profit. Wiley had little updated information on the possible divestiture, with CEO Stephen Smith telling analysts only that “we are fully engaged in the process of finding a right buyer and situation for our consumer assets.”
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HC Adapts App To Push Excerpts On Facebook
The idea of excerpting a book to drum up interest is nothing new, but releasing excerpts in stages, based on the number of “likes” a book gets on Facebook, is a whole new ballgame for promotion in the digital age. Employing just this strategy, HarperCollins has driven 7,324 “likes” and 18,630 total views since early May to the Facebook excerpts of Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes, the inaugural book using the HarperCollins Like to Read application.
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More Skirmishing in E-book Antitrust Cases
Ahead of a status conference set for today in the three lawsuits--by the Justice Department, numerous states’ attorneys general and the class action suit led by Hagen’s Berman--against Apple and five publishers charging them with fixing e-book prices, the judge received letters from most involved parties on various procedural issues.
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