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Hachette Book Group in New Tech Deal
Hachette Book Group has signed with Tata Consultancy Services in an agreement through which TCS will provide targeted application and development support services that will help HBG to continue to expand in the digital market.
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James Tabbed to Run Harlequin’s E-book-only Carina Press
In a move that signifies the importance of women readers and the romance genre in driving e-book sales, romance publisher Harlequin is launching Carina Press, a digital-only publishing venture that will be run separately from Harlequin’s conventional publishing program.
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A Look At Amazon's Vine Program
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Holt Wins Auction for New Elizabeth Kolbert Book
Henry Holt executive editor Gillian Blake has won a hotly contested auction for New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert's new book, The Sixth Extinction. Blake beat out eight other houses for the book, which will be expanded from the author's May 2009 New Yorker piece of the same name.
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Simon & Schuster Unveils Internal E-galley System
Simon & Schuster has unveiled an e-galley program to provide digital ARCs to the media. Galley Grab, which is still in beta at www.galleygrab.com, offers DRM protected downloads of S&S titles, for review and feature coverage, which can be read on varioues e-readers, including the Sony eReader and the Nook.
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Third-Quarter Profits Jump at Harlequin
Third-quarter sales rose 22.5% at Harlequin on a 3.7% sales gain. Earnings were helped by lower costs and foreign exchange.
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McIntosh Named to New Spot at Random House
Madeline McIntosh is returning to Random House in a newly created high level post in which she will report directly to CEO Markus Dohle.
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Publishing Results Drop at Marvel
Marvel Enterainment announced this morning that sales in its publishing segment fell 6% in the third quarter ended September 30, to $48.9 million. Operating income declined 19.7%, to $10.2 million.
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Borders Offers “In-Stock Guarantee”
Borders has started a new holiday program under which it will ship for free any item listed on Borders.com that is not in-stock in a store where a customer is shopping.
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Simon & Schuster Selling e-Chapters
Simon & Schuster has started to sell individual e-chapters to its bestselling You series of titles written by Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz. The initiative was developed as part of a broader effort by Dr. Oz to provide answers about health on his www.askdoctoroz.com Web site.
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Dyssegaard Joins Hyperion
Elisabeth Dyssegaard will join Hyperion November 16 as editor-in chief, replacing Will Balliett, who left earlier this fall to head Thames and Hudson.
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Amazon Picks 'Let the Great World Spin' as Best Book of 2009
Amazon has named Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin as its best book of 2009. Published by Random House, Amazon called Spin “a gorgeous and moving story.”
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Soapbox: Now More Than Ever
There's been some talk recently about the future of the fall regional association trade shows: GLiBA, MBA, MPIBA, NAIBA, NEIBA, NCIBA, PNBA, SCIBA and SIBA. Every August and September, I curse these shows.
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Independents Plan Events for National Bookstore Day
More than 100 bookstores across the country are planning to participate in the PW-sponsored event National Bookstore Day this Saturday, November 7. Event organizers are hoping promotions tied to the day will attract local and national media coverage—and, in turn, draw new customers into bookstores.
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Story Plant Revamps Model
Founded in 2008 by two veteran publishing professionals—former Berkley publisher Lou Aronica and literary agent Peter Miller—Story Plant is a publishing venture originally intended to focus on a list of hardcover genre fiction. But after releasing its first two hardcover books last fall, Aronica acknowledged that he and Miller have had to rethink the whole venture.
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Barnes & Noble Touts Three-Prong Approach
Try as it might, Barnes & Noble has had a hard time convincing investors and analysts that, as reading moves more and more to e-books, there is a place for retailers that derive most their revenue—and profits—from the sale of print books. In a 90-minute presentation October 27, B&N's management team did its best to persuade analysts that the company's dominant position in th...
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New Macmillan Contract Latest Wrinkle in Pricing Conundrum
In a letter sent to publishers on October 26, Macmillan CEO John Sargent drew what might be one of the first significant lines in the sand in the looming battle over the payout structure for e-books. Sargent announced that Macmillan would be instituting a boilerplate contract across its divisions that would offer a 20% royalty on net proceeds on e-books, a drop from what has become the de facto...
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Interlink Kilimanjaro Book Begins Climb
Interlink founder Michael Moushabeck's book about his expendition to Mount Kilimanjaro is building up sales.
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Macmillan's Revised Contract Lowers Digital Royalties, Raises Direct to Consumer
A new Macmillan contract will change the way the publisher pays for digital sales as well as upping royalties for direct to consumer sales.
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Baker & Taylor, Gale offer Digital Reference Collection
Baker & Taylor has joined with reference publisher Gale to distribute the Gale Virtual Reference Library e-book collection.
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