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News Briefs: Week of April 9, 2012
Google Ends E-book Reseller Program and more
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‘PW,’ Vook Team Up for Self-Publishing Package
PW and Vook have reached a deal that will let self-published authors get access to Vook’s new e-book creation tool as well as participate in PW Select’s listing and review service. Under PW Select+, authors will receive the benefits of PW Select and a host of options for using Vook’s e-book creation and publishing platform.
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Self-Made Bestseller Weighs Traditional Deals
Hugh Howey has not quite broken out in the way recent self-publishing superstars like Amanda Hocking and John Locke have, but his sales record has made New York publishing houses take notice.
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Book Publicists Step into Publishing
Publishing companies typically incorporate publishing and marketing departments into their business models. February Partners, however, is doing things a little differently: the Manhattan boutique book publicity and marketing firm founded in the fall of 2010 by two industry veterans has just launched a publishing division, February Books.
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The 10% Standard
The major trade publishers do not appear in imminent danger of fading away. With Random House’s release of 2011 financial results late last month, the four large trade houses that report results all posted operating margins that topped 10%. Although the four companies—Lagardère Publishing (parent company of Hachette Book Group), Random House, Penguin Group, and Simon & Schuster—all use slightly different ways to measure operating earnings, the uniformity of margins was remarkably close: two companies had margins of 10.8% and two others had a 10.6% margin.
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World Book Night 2012 US Giver Map
World Book Night is April 23 and the accompanying map shows the communities where individuals have signed up to help give away 1 million books.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, April 6
Surveys and polls are in the news, not on the presidential campaign, but on the rise of e-books in the US and the rest of the world.
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Tracking Amazon: Kennedy Book Rises Amid Press Coverage
The book is #9 on the bestseller list and #13 on the Kindle bestseller list. It has already received coverage from USA Today, MSNBC, CNN, and many others.
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New Digital-First Publisher Astor + Blue Editions To Debut in May
Astor + Blue Editions is a new digital-first publishing house looking to publish titles initially in digital formats to be followed by print.
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Bestselling Kid’s Author Releases Adult Title in Hay House Contest
Children’s author Lisa McCourt, who has written 33 books that have sold more than 5.5 million copies, just released her first book for adults, Juicy Joy (Hay House).
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Tracking Amazon: Inside Amazon's Warehouses
The Seattle Times takes an extensive look at the working conditions inside Amazon's warehouses, including the story of Connie Milby, a former "picker" who would walk 10 miles a day in the warehouse filling orders, and how she was fired two weeks ago for low productivity.
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Tracking Amazon: Inside the Amazon Sales Tax Situation
The Seattle Times has a lengthy article that looks at facets of the ongoing discussions between Amazon and state legislators around the country over the collection of sales taxes.
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Distribution: Bookmasters to Distribute Editorial Océano Mexico
Bookmasters signed a sales and distribution agreement with Editorial Océano Mexico to distribute its Spanish-language adult books in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
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Picador Names Stephen Morrison V-P and Publisher
Effective April 30, Stephen Morrison of Penguin Books will step into the role of v-p and publisher for Picador, reporting to Jonathan Galassi and Stephen Rubin. The hire comes shortly after the announcement that Frances Coady was stepping down.
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Bloomsbury Buys Fashion Education Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing has completed its acquisition of Fairchild Books. The New York-based Fairchild, which specializes in educational material and textbooks for fashion students, has been distributed (outside of North America) by Bloomsbury's Berg imprint since 2006.
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Call for Information, Reference Books – Reminder
For PW’s April 23 Reference feature please submit titles ASAP (our deadline was March 28) to Dick Donahue (ddonahue@publishersweekly.com). We’re looking at books pubbing between April 1 and September 30.
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Tracking Amazon: 'America the Beautiful' Sees Huge Spike
Dr. Ben Carson's America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great (Zondervan) has jumped to #11 from #5,781 on Amazon's bestseller list in the past 24 hours.
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Carroll & Brown Establishes U.S. Outpost with Midpoint Plus
Midpoint Trade Books is launching Midpoint Plus to help overseas publishers create a U.S. presence more economically than setting up an entire U.S. operation.
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Constable & Robinson Extends Third Party Service
Constable & Robinson will extend its third party sales and distribution service to more U.S. and Canadian publishers.
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Bancroft Press Switches Focus to Memoirs
Bancroft Press will shift its focus from fiction to memoirs, beginning in 2012 and 2013.
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