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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, April 13
It was a momentous week, as the the US Dept. of Justice (DOJ) moved to sue Apple and five trade book houses for price-fixing on e-books, settling the charges with three publishers.
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Amazon Publishing Releases Fall List
Amazon Publishing New York has announced its first list of books under the New Harvest imprint in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt catalog.
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Little, Brown Releases Title, Pub Date of Rowling's Adult Novel
Little, Brown has announced that J.K. Rowling's forthcoming adult novel, which it recently acquired, will be called The Casual Vacancy. The Hachette imprint also said the book will be published, internationally in English, on September 27.
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The Broad Strokes of the Hachette, HarperCollins and S&S Price-Fixing Settlement
Three publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have reached a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle federal claims of price fixing regarding e-books. PW takes an initial look at the broad strokes of the deal, and what it means for the settling publishers.
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DoJ Files Antitrust Suit
The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group, HarperCollins, and Macmillan charging them with colluding to raise e-book prices when they moved from the wholesale model to the agency model.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Reverse Innovation' Jumps in P, Flat in E
Amazon's top book in Movers & Shakers is Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble (Harvard Business Review Press), seeing a jump to #7 from #7,119 in the past 24 hours.
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Scribner To Publish 'Call of Sedona' in July
Scribner will publish the independently-published New York Times bestseller The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart by Ilchi Lee.
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State Library of Kansas to Partner with Bilbary to Enable E-Book Purchases
The state library of Kansas this week said that it will partner with upstart e-bookseller Bilbary to facilitate patrons wishing to buy e-books.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Phantom Tollbooth' Sees Huge Spike
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer, originally published in 1961, is seeing a revival.
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Morgan James Adds Fiction Imprint
Morgan James Publishing is entering the fiction market through an agreement with the independent publisher Koehler Books.
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Call for Info for ‘PW Show Daily’
For PW Show Daily—a daily newspaper distributed at BookExpo America—please send information on your lead authors who will be at BEA to promote their books, particularly those who will be on panels, at breakfasts, luncheons, stages, and press conferences as well as autographings.
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ttyl Series Tops List of Most Challenged Titles
The ALA has released its list of the top 10 most challenged books of 2011, along with its 2012 State of America's Library Report. Among the most challenged books are mainstays like Brave New World and To Kill a Mockingbird, as well as more recent books like The Hunger Games trilogy and Lauren Myracle's ttyl series.
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Tracking Amazon: Why is Amazon Giving $1 Million to Small Presses and Lit Nonprofits?
Salon has an extensive look at Amazon's quiet support of small presses and lit-minded nonprofits, including the Brooklyn Book Festival, the PEN American Center, and Kenyon Review, among many others.
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New Russo Collaboration is Print Only
In his new collection, which his daughter is calling "the anti-Kindle," Richard Russo collaborates with his daughters and son-in-law on illustrations, packaging, and even a book signing.
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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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