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Sargent Says Deal is Closer; Macmillan Royalty Rate to Rise
Macmillan CEO John Sargent said he thinks the publisher and Amazon are close to returning to business as usual, something that would result in the return of Macmillan's buy buttons.
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Bray Lands Major Deal at Little, Brown
Libba Bray, hot off her Printz win for Going Bovine, has landed a major book deal at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Bray's agent-husband, Barry Goldblatt, sold North American rights, in an auction featuring six houses, to a new YA series called The Diviners to LBBYR senior v-p and publisher Megan Tingley, deputy publisher Andrew Smith, and senior editor Alvina Ling.
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Some Movement in Amazon, Macmillan Talks
A deal in the Amazon, Macmillan dispute could come soon...maybe.
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New Edition of Frederick Douglass’ ‘Narrative’ Adds Lost Angela Davis Lectures
San Francisco-based City Light Publishers has released a new edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist’s autobiography, that includes two rediscovered 1960s lectures by legendary feminist scholar and political activist Angela Davis that focused on Douglass’ themes of self-empowerment and freedom through literacy and self-knowledge.
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Big Quarter for HarperCollins
Sales for the quarter ended December 31 jumped 25% at HarperCollins and operating income rose to $65 million from $23 million. Going Rogue helped to lift sales, and comparisons were helped by a very poor quarter in 2008.
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Murdoch Expects Amazon to Negotiate E-book Terms
Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp. parent company HarperCollins, said he expects to begin negotiating new e-book prices with Amazon soon.
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Macmillan, Amazon Talks Drag On
Although more Macmillan titles have had their buy buttons restored, a final agreement in the Amazon-Macmillan dispute has still not been reached.
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No Buttons Yet
Despite reports that the two parties were discussing ways to restore Macmillan’s buy buttons yesterday, customers were still unable to buy Macmillan titles from Amazon.
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Authors Guild Calls Macmillan Fight "Necessary"
The Authors Guild has come out in support of Macmillan' proposal for new e-book terms, calling its fight with Amazon "a necessary one."
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Investor Wants to Up Barnes & Noble Stake
Investor Ron Burkle, whose Yucaipa investment firm owns a 19% stake in Barnes & Noble, wants the retailer's board to waive the poison pill provision it passed to allow him to acquire 37% of the company which would put him on equal footing with chairman Len Riggio.
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‘Flanimals Pop-Up’ Shipment Missing—No Joke
Ricky Gervais is involved, but for once it’s no laughing matter: a shipment of more than 12,000 copies of Flanimals Pop-Up by actor/comedian Gervais went missing last week en route to Candlewick’s warehouse in Indiana. Police are investigating the incident as grand theft (the books are valued at more than $240,000).
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Agents Largely Support Macmillan; Some Angered by Amazon
In a major industry development over the weekend--which saw Macmillan announce new terms of sale with Amazon for its e-books and Amazon ultimately capitulate to those terms in a statement--agents watched, many internally cheering the move made by the smallest of the "big six" houses.
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Macmillan, Amazon Dispute Nearing Resolution
Although nothing official has been announced and Macmillan’s titles are still not directly available for sale from Amazon, the dispute over new e-book terms that exploded Friday night appears headed towards resolution in favor of the publisher.
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Indie Presses Find a Home on Campuses
When South End Press relocated from Cambridge, Mass., to the Brooklyn campus of Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York last fall, it joined a handful of presses that have formed partnerships with universities. In some cases, these presses have been launched by academic institutions, which have created such imprints as Open Letter at the University of Rochester or Apprentice Hou...
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Ellison's Unfinished Novel Released
Technically, Three Days Before the Shooting is the unfinished second novel by Ralph Ellison. But calling the 1,136-plus—page tome that is a bit deceptive. Less an attempt to cull the final writings of a dead author into a single novel, the book, which Random House's Modern Library published in a small print run last week, has more the “quality of an encyclopedia,” in the view ...
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Amazon Halts Sales of Macmillan Titles
The New York Times has reported that online book retailer Amazon.com has removed the buy button from all active Macmillan titles on its site in a dispute over the pricing of e-books for the Kindle.
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Amazon Has Blockbuster Year
Sales and earnings hit records in all major segments of Amazon's business in 2009 and the company has sold "millions" of Kindles, according to CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Borders Eliminates 164 Positions
Borders Group has cut another 164 positions at with job reductions coming in its corporate headquarters and distribution centers. Cuts in its store workforce are expected soon.
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Investigation Into Online Discount Practices Includes Barnes & Noble
The New York Attorney General office has subpoenaed 22 online retailers has part of an investigation into a practice that links consumers to membership programs that charge unauthorized fees. B&N is among the retailers subpoenaed, but the company said he has never turned over customer information to membership clubs.
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AmazonEncore to Publish First Original Titles
Amazon’s publishing imprint, AmazonEncore, is publishing four original manuscripts for the first time this spring. The books—Page From a Tennessee Journal by Francine Thomas Howard, Greyhound by Steffan Piper, A Cruel Harvest by Paul Reid, and Crossing by Andrew Fukuda—were all submitted for last year’s Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.
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