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Macmillan to Use Multi-Prong Approach to E-Book Release Dates
Macmillan CEO John Sargent issued a brief statement Tuesday outlining his company's plans for releasing e-book editions of its frontlist titles. Macmillan will publish its bestsellers in several ways next year, Sargent said.
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Authors Guild Calls Dohle Letter "Regrettable and Unhelpful"
Random House chairman Markus Dohle may have sent this letter to agents in the spirit of collaboration, but that isn’t how the Authors Guild is seeing it. In a message sent to its members this morning, the Guild said it was “regrettable and unhelpful that Random House has chosen to try to intimidate authors and agents over these old book contracts.”
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Shortcovers Adds Internet Archive Titles
Indigo’s e-book service, Shortcovers, has added 1.8 million titles from the Internet Archive available free of charge through the Shortcovers store. Internet Archive’s library includes public domain classics, academic works, reference materials, and other fiction and nonfiction titles.
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S&S Draws Line in Digital Sand With Delay of E-book Titles
By stating last week that it would delay the release of the e-book editions of 35 titles set to be published in the January through April period, Simon & Schuster has become the first major house to put into place a firm release date for its e-books—four months after publication of the hardcover.
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Phoenix Books Rises in New Direction
The leadership team of Phoenix Books Inc. has been moving aggressively to re-position the Los Angeles publisher following the death this summer of founder Michael Viner. The company, acquired in late 2007 by Dwight Opperman, is moving away from the celebrity and tabloid-driven titles favored by Viner to create a list built around serious fiction and nonfiction.
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Bard Press Bets On a Diet Book
A small publisher with a string of bestselling business books has hopes for similar success in the diet arena. Bard Press, based in Austin, Tex., with a full-time staff of exactly one (Ray Bard), will release The Full Plate Diet: Slim Down, Look Great, Be Healthy! in time for the diet book crunch, on January 4.
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Crown Split
By dividing the Crown Publishing Group into two units, Random House CEO Markus Dohle is putting more structure into an operation that, as Dohle noted, had grown in a myriad of ways, often adding companies that had little in common: Watson-Guptill, Ten Speed Press, Monacelli Press, and Multnomah (just to name a few).
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Roger Clemens's Former Trainer Self-Publishing a Memoir
Brian McNamee, the onetime personal strength and conditioning coach for former Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays and Astros pitcher Roger Clemens, is self-publishing a book that will supposedly reveal his perspective on Clemens’s steroids controversy. Death, Taxes, and Mac: Brian McNamee in His Own Words, written with Marc Zappulla, will drop February 17, 2010, the same day Yankee pitchers and catchers report for spring training in Tampa, Fla.
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Author Solutions Partners with Espresso Book Machine
Self-publishing company of the moment Author Solutions announced a deal today with On Demand Books, which owns the Espresso Book Machine, to provide writers with online tools to publish, distribute, print and market their books in retail locations via the Espresso Book Machine.
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Penguin Launches Sirius XM Book Radio Show, Announces Third Annual Amazon Writing Contest
A new program debuts on Sirius XM Book Radio this week: “Penguin Classics on Air,” a half-hour series devoted to the discussion and exploration of some of Penguin Classics’ 1,500-plus titles. Also today, Penguin Group (USA) and Amazon announced the third annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition. For the first time, the competition will award two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for best young adult novel.
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Mavjee Replaces Frost at Smaller Crown Publishing
Random House chairman Markus Dohle has replaced Crown Publishing head Jenny Frost with Maya Mavjee, publisher of Doubleday Canada. As part of the reorganization, the Crown trade imprints have been separated from the audio and information divisions.
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Baker & Taylor Acquires Blackwell North America
Baker & Taylor has acquired Blackwell Book Services North America from the U.K.-based Blackwell Inc. As part of the deal, which was completed today, B&T has also bought Blackwell’s Australia-based library supplier James Bennett, while Blackwell U.K. has acquired B&T’s Lindsay and Croft business in the U.K.
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Mystery Writers Boots Harlequin from Approved Publishers List
Last week, the board of the Mystery Writers of America voted unanimously to remove Harlequin and all of its imprints from its list of approved publishers, effective immediately. MWA executive v-p Frankie Y. Bailey explained the decision on MWA’s Web site: "We did not take this action lightly."
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Holt Finds Hit in 'Mennonite' Tale; Inks Author to Second Book
It's not often that you can count both the New York Times and the Mennonite Weekly Review among your press hits, but that's exactly the case with Henry Holt on its unexpected success, Mennonite In a Little Black Dress.
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‘Hunger Games 3’ to Pub Next August
Hunger Games fans have just eight more months to wait: the as yet untitled third and final book in Suzanne Collins's dystopian fantasy trilogy will be released in English worldwide on August 24, 2010. An audio version from Scholastic Audio will be released simultaneously. In other news, the trade paperback edition of the first book in the trilogy, The Hunger Games, will be released on July 6, 2010.
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Lightning Source in Deal with CreateSpace
Ingram and Amazon seemed to have buried their difference over a decision made in early 2008 by Amazon to make authors and publishers who want to sell their titles directly through Amazon use its print-on-demand division BookSurge (now being rebranded CreateSpace) rather than Ingram’s Lightning Source unit.
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OUP to Publish Line With Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic has partnered with Oxford University Press to publish a line of medical reference titles and textbooks.
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Judge Rules in Favor of Meyer in Plagiarism Case
A judge has ruled in favor in Stephenie Meyer and Hachette Book Group, dismissing Jordan Scott’s claim of copyright infringement. Scott had accused Meyer of plagiarism. Scott filed the suit in federal court in California in August of this year. At the time, Hachette called the suit a "publicity stunt to further Ms. Scott’s career," and said it expected the court would dismiss it...
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Ammer Resigns from Random House
After serving in a number of executive positions at Random House over the past 15 years, Bonnie Ammer has resigned as executive v-p, International Sales, Random House, Inc.
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Perseus Adds B&N and Shortcovers to Constellation Program
The Perseus Books Group has added two new e-book retailers to its Constellation digital services program: Barnes & Noble and Shortcovers. The company also introduced new elements to its digital short print run service, such as the ability to strip and rebind hardcovers, and print in the U.K.
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