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HBG to Distribute Hachette UK Titles in Canada
Beginning January 1, Hachette Book Group USA will take over distribution of Hachette UK’s titles into the Canadian market.
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Little, Brown Announces Twilight Publishing Schedule
More titles set for the mega-selling Twilight books.
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Perennial Gets Innovative with 'Love' Campaign
Harper Perennial, as part of a creative partnership that grew out of a multi-book deal with brand managers/gallery owners Partners & Spade, is getting innovative with a publicity campaign for its May short story collection, Love Begins in Winter.
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Simon & Schuster Has Rough First Quarter
Sales at Simon & Schuster fell nearly 20% in the first quarter and the company had a net loss of $2.1 million. Frontlist and backlist sales were both lower, although e-book sales jumped and several new authors hit the bestsellers list.
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Charges Result in $38 Million Loss at HarperCollins
A one-time charge of $30 million resulted in a $38 million loss in the third quarter ended March 31 at HarperCollins. Sales in the period fell 19.5%, to $243 million.
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Harlequin Has First Quarter Gains in Sales, Earnings
Harlequin had a 13.5% sales increase in sales and a 19.1% gain in earnings in the first quarter. Results were aided by a weaker Canadian dollar and gains in digital sales.
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Marvel Publishing Dips in Quarter; Expects Better Second Half
Publishing sales and profits fell at Marvel in the first quarter, but improvement is expected in the second half of 2009. The entire company had a good quarter driven by higher licensing and film revenue.
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Independent Publishing: New Harbinger's New Context
At a time when many businesses are retooling and often retrenching, New Harbinger Publications is expanding and acquiring. On May 1, the independent press, known for its self-help, psychology and health titles, toasted not only the opening of its second building across the street from its original Oakland, Calif.
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Norton Deal Part Of New Push for Dalkey Archive
With an expanded list that includes more high-profile books, Dalkey Archive Press has signed on with W.W. Norton to take over distribution for the nonprofit press at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill. Martin Riker, associate director of Dalkey, had headed Dalkey's in-house sales effort (with fulfillment through University of Nebraska Press), but said the move to Norton will get the p...
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Penguin, Hachette Gained in Tough 2008
Despite a weak economy, the five largest American trade publishers generated revenue of $4.60 billion in 2008, according to PW's ranking of the major houses. Although three of the five publishers are owned by foreign companies, the American market is still key to the overall performance of the big five publishers.
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Profile: Charlie Winton
Since Charlie Winton's career in publishing has been based on nontraditional business models, it's no wonder that two of his most profound inspirations have been the Grateful Dead and Grove Press's controversial founder, Barney Rossett. Winton, who began in publishing right out of the M.B.A. program at Stanford University, started Publishers Group West in 1976 and over the years formed Avalon P...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press on Record Pace
The Wisconsin Historical Society Press should top $1 million in sales for the first time this fiscal year.
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Chicago Review Press's 'Excellent Adventure'
The author of Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure not only traces the former president's 2,500 mile cross-country trip after leaving office in his book, but in his tour as well.
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First-Quarter Slip for Quarto
Revenue fell 5% and operating profit slipped slightly in the first quarter at Quarto Group.
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Could O'Neill Benefit from 'Obama Effect'?
He's been called the "literary president" and the "new Oprah," unintentionally shooting books to the top of the bestseller lists by mentioning them in interviews or simply receiving them as gifts. Now it looks like yet another title, the Pantheon novel Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, may get a boost from President Obama.
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New Look for Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'
Hailed for its bracing portrait of a future media-addled society victimized by the systematic burning of all books, Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 is the perfect work to highlight issues of censorship and the freedom to read. And in August, Farrar, Straus & Giroux's Hill and Wang imprint will republish the book to do just that.
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Barnes & Noble Launches Audiobook Store
B&N is making digital editions of spokenword audiobooks available through its Web site.
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IndieBound Heads to the iPhone
Independent booksellers went mobile last week with the American Booksellers Association's launch of an iPhone/iTouch app for IndieBound. The free download focuses on the three most popular features of IndieBound.org: book lists, including the Indie Next and Indie Bestsellers lists, a book search of 3.
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News Briefs
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New Look for Little, Brown
The Hachette Book Group is giving a new look to the Little, Brown and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers logos. The redesign, the first one in 70 years, was led by typographer and graphic artist Lance Hidy. With each letter placed on an individual key of an antique typewriter, the new logos “honor Little, Brown's rich history of publishing great writers since 1837,” HBG said.
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