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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, November 11
B&N introduces it's new tablet, and Kobo learns to say, “konnichiwa,” as it is acquired by e-commerce company Rakuten for hefty $315 million. In Monday's issue, PW features a tablet "tale of of the tape," as well as detailed report on the recently concluded PubWest conference, and a feature on Romance. Listen to the podcast here.
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S&S Overhauls Sales Division, Revamps Marketing
As more sales move from print to digital, Simon & Schuster has unveiled a news sales and marketing operation that will increase marketing efforts for both print and digital titles, while moving more of its sales efforts from physical stores to digital.
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Brooks's 'World War Z' Hits Sales Milestone
Max Brooks's zombie novel World War Z has surpassed the million copies sold mark. The book, which was publishing by Random House's Crown imprint in hardcover in September 2006, has sold over 1 million copies in all formats combined: hardcover, paperback and digital.
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ProQuest Unveils New Organization, Cuts Some Management Positions
ProQuest this week announced that it has reorganized into six business units, and named a new executive team. In addition, sources tell PW that 40 jobs have been eliminated across the company, which employs some 1,800 people.
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Little, Brown Recalls Spy Book with Lifted Passages
Little, Brown has recalled copies of Assassin of Secrets by Q.R. Markham from retailers across the country in light of passages and lines lifted from classic and contemporary spy novels.
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Harlequin Seeks New Authors in Online Contest
Even though it is one of the world’s largest romance publishers, Harlequin is still looking for new writers. To that end, it is hosting an online manuscript contest with a publishing contract as a prize.
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Berrett-Koehler's Occupy Wall Street Book Ships
10,000 copies of This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement will hit store shelves November 17, just six weeks after the concept for the book was born.
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The Monday Interview: Ed Breslin
An interview with Ed Breslin, the co-author (with Hugh Van Dusen) of America’s Great Railroad Stations, which was just published by Viking Studio.
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News Briefs: Week of November 7, 2011
Canadian Novelists File Plagiarism Suit and more.
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Whither the Midlist Publisher?
For nearly a decade, some say even longer, people in the publishing industry have been decrying the death of the midlist. Now, after a cluster of small presses have sprung up that trade in specialized categories and literary fiction, more commercial authors, abandoned by their big publishers, are finding there aren’t many options in the middle.
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Hay House Fiction Debut Marks 25 Years
In a major departure for Hay House, the self-help and spirituality publisher is jumping into the fiction market. Its debut mystery novel, The First Rule of Ten by psychologist Gay Hendricks and screen writer Tinker Lindsay, will be published in January. Hay House has signed up 10 additional titles for its fiction list, with many more to come.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, November 4
This week, PW Reviews director offers a peak behind PW’s 100 Best Books list, and Rose Fox tells us why PW’s reviews section has its heart set on Valentine’s Day when the rest of us haven’t had Thanksgiving Dinner yet!
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Harvard Business Review Announces New Leadership Team
Harvard Business Review Press, the book publishing unit of Harvard Business Review Group, has named Sarah McConville as publisher and Tim Sullivan as editorial director.
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Scribner to Publish First Novel from Owen King
Owen King, the son of Stephen King, has signed with his father's publisher for his first novel, Reenactment. The Simon & Schuster imprint calls the book an "epic, comic" work, and will release it in spring 2013.
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Caro's Fourth Johnson Bio Hits in May 2012
Knopf will publish the fourth volume of Robert A. Caro's Lyndon Johnson biography next May. The book, titled The Passage of Power, continues the story told in Master of the Senate (2002), Means of Ascent (1990) and The Path to Power (1982). The books have been honored with a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle. Collectively, they've sold 1.5 million copies.
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Vintage Español Publishing Edition of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs Bio
Vintage Español is publishing a Spanish language edition of Walter Isaacson's just-published bestseller about Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The Random House Spanish language edition of Steve Jobs publishes today and is already in its third printing.
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Triumph Releases Instant Cardinals World Series Book
Triumph, in sticking with its tradition of turning around instant books about major sports victories, is releasing Wild Cards: The St. Louis Cardinals Stunning 2011 Championship Season by Rob Rains, in digital and print today.
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Three Canadian Authors File C$6 Million Copyright Lawsuit
Plagiarism allegations that have been swirling around Ling Zhang’s novel Gold Mountain Blues have now become a C$6 million lawsuit for copyright infringement.
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'The 36-Hour Day' Turns 30
Nancy Mace and Peter Rabins’s The 36-Hour Day has sold 2.5 million copies in both print and digital formats since it was first published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1981 and is poised to go into a fifth edition with a first printing of 30,000 trade paper and another 5,000 large-print at the beginning of November.
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News Briefs: Week of October 31, 2011
Sales Jump, Earnings Dive At Amazon, and more.
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