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McGraw-Hill Education Reorg Cuts 340
As part of an overhaul if its elhi business, McGraw-Hill Education has eliminated 340 positions.
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HarperCollins and Jim Henson Partner on Sid the Science Kid Series
HarperCollins Children’s Books and the Jim Henson Company are launching a publishing program for Sid the Science Kid, based on the Emmy-nominated animated TV series that began airing on PBS Kids last fall. The books will feature full-color stills from the series and will launch in December 2009, with three titles targeting preschoolers ages three to six.
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Nonprofit Archipelago Books Needs Help
Forced to reduce staff and delay books because of the distressed economy, Brooklyn-based Archipelago Books, a small prize-winning nonprofit press specializing in literary translations, is reaching out to its supporters and the general reading public for donations to help it survive.
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Midpoint Inks Distribution Deal with Mark Joseph
Media personality Mark Joseph has signed a distribution deal with Midpoint for to release titles from his newly formed imprint, Bully! Pulpit Books.
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New York Center for Independent Publishing Looks for New Direction
A meeting of the NYCIP advisory council in late June discussed a number of ideas to move the NYCIP forward. The organization for indie presses has been floundering since executive director Karin Taylor left in February and a number of council members resigned.
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Restructuring Results in Smaller DK Publishing
Pearson is overhauling its DK and Rough Guides divisions in response to steady declines in the reference market, including travel publishing. As a result, Gary June, DK chief executive, is leaving the company to become chief marketing officer at Pearson's North American Education company, which is headed by Will Ethridge.
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Wiley Benefits From Diversification
As publishers look to diversify their content beyond books, John Wiley & Sons provides a blueprint of sorts in its recently released 10-k report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the fiscal year ended April 30, 2009, Wiley generated revenue, in addition to books, from journals, advertising, the sale of publishing rights, electronic publishing and assorted other sources.
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Free-For-All: Anderson, “Free” Book, Sparks a Backlash Online and Among Battered Media Industry
Under normal circumstances, the fact that Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s latest book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, logged over 17,000 free views in a day on upstart “social publisher” Scribd would be the story. The real story, however, lurks in the comments left on the Scribd web site.
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Pocket in Seven-Book Deal for Zombies
Pocket Books has inked a deal with Permuted Press to publish seven of its titles about zombies.
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Graywolf Press Heading to New Offices
The literary nonprofit is moving from St. Paul to new offices in Minneapolis.
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Random House Unveils 'Lost Symbol' Jacket
Biding its time to the big September 15 publication of Dan Brown's long-awaited follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, Random House is slowly releasing tidbits about the heavily guarded book. Today it unveiled the new jacket for the book, along with scant plot details.
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Bleak House Moving Forward As Founder Moves On
Bleak House founder Ben LeRoy is starting a new house, while Big Earth Publishing will continue to release new titles under the Bleak House imprint.
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New Hachette Program Gives Complete Access to Titles
Hachette's new OpenAccess program allows readers to view the complete book from a select number of titles.
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Sentinel Kills Sanford Book
South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, whose extramarital affair, after becoming front page news, has threatened his political career (and his marriage), has also now lost his book deal.
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Vertical Inc. Is Still Here
Although Vertical Inc., a New York City publisher specializing in translations of contemporary Japanese prose literature and manga, has struggled during the economic downturn, the house has secured a new investor, hired a new marketing manager and plans to make adjustments to its list beginning in 2010.
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Tonight's Kathy Griffin Show Set at Random House Offices
Random House’s New York offices will be appearing in three episodes of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List starting Monday night. Ballantine is publishing comedian Griffin’s Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin on September 8, and the three episodes will follow Griffin as she takes the first steps toward publishing her memoir.
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Scholastic Reconfigures Book Fairs
As part of its effots to centralize its book fair operations, Scholastic last month closed seven distribution centers and laid off about 100 book fair employees.
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Cooking the Books with Rachel Holtzman
Earlier this month, Gotham Books acquired rights to chef Grant Achatz’s memoir, Life, On the Line. Based on the proposal and Achatz’s cookbook, Alinea, the memoir won’t be a typical chef’s narrative. Rather, the book, co-written with Achatz’s business partner, Nick Kokonas, will be part autobio, part art book, and part business story. PW talks to Rachel Holtzman, who will edit Life, On the Line.
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Random Houses Teams with BookGlutton for Promotion
Random House is offering four chapters of Sacred Hearts through BookGlutton.com as part of its outreach to online book clubs.
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Reorg at Harvard University Press Eliminates Six Positions
Harvard University Press has eliminated six jobs as part of an overall cost reduction plan implemented by the university.
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