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Amazon Sales Jump, Though Media Growth Slower
Amazon sales grew 18% in the first quarter, but worldwide media sales rose only 7% with the majority of the gains coming in the retailer's electronics and other general merchandise segment.
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Scholastic Web Game Show to Test Kids’ Knowledge
On April 30, Scholastic will host a live game show, to be webcast on the publisher’s Web site, in which four teams of New York City fifth-graders will test their book knowledge in a trivia competition. The competition, to be held at the Scholastic Auditorium in the company’s NYC headquarters, will be hosted by the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jon Scieszka.
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Small Press Stretches to Keep Up With 'Open Veins' Demand
Monthly Review Press, the small house behind the recently-publicized Open Veins of Latin America, struggles to keep up with demand after Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez publicly gave the book to President Obama.
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Creamer to Succeed Gompertz at Touchstone
Broadway's Stacy Creamer has been appointed publisher of Touchstone Fireside, taking the spot from Mark Gompertz who moved to a new role as Simon & Schuster earlier this week.
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Secret Mountain Offers Music to Kids’ Ears
The Secret Mountain, a publisher with offices in Montreal and Paris, is striking a chord with consumers with its line of storybook-music CD sets. In 2005, the publisher entered the U.S. market when it acquired NBN as its distributor of book-and-music packages in this country.
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MacAdam/Cage Introduces Its Inaugural Children’s Series
Playwright and novelist Mark Dunn’s debut book for young readers marks a new chapter for MacAdam/Cage Publishing as well. The Age of Altertron launches The Calamitous Adventures of Rodney & Wayne, Cosmic Repairboys, the first children’s book series to be published by this San Francisco house.
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Minnesota Historical Society Press Cuts Output and Staff
In response to an expected 45% cut in funding from the state, St. Paul-based Minnesota Historical Society Press announced this morning that it will both decrease its annual book production by 30% and eliminate four positions from its 11-person staff.
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High-Tech Awards, Low-Tech Contest
Unbridled Books and NetGalley have teamed up to promote Last Night in Montreal.
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Using SKYPE, Wiley Holds Virtual Bookstore Talk
Combining technology and pop culture, John Wiley’s events planners found an inventive way to upgrade the traditional author bookstore appearance
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Penguin Breakfast Explains Company's Global Outlook
At Penguin UK’s headquarters at 80 Strand this morning, chairman and CEO John Makinson presented a group of journalists with an overview of the company’s global business, offering commentary and observations from five of its international divisions. The big picture: Penguin is reaching far and wide, especially into developing countries.
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Norton to Publish Posthumous Volume of Ballard Short Fiction
With the passing of author J.G. Ballard, Norton is preparing to publish a posthumous volume of his work.
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Summer Love: Favorite Reads for the Summer
We see thousands of books and we covet hundreds of them, but ultimately we have to winnow, professionally and personally. So imagining ourselves with time on our hands in a sultry setting, what few would we choose? We could download to our heart's content, but if we had to carry? Read on... Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Époque Kate Cambor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Th...
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S&S, GoSpoken to Offer E-titles for Mobile Phones
Simon & Schuster is teaming up with GoSpoken.com, a U.K.-based provider of e-books and audiobooks for mobile phones, to offer a selection of S&S tiles for U.S. mobile phones.
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Lulu Poetry Separate from Former Scam Site
When self-publishing site Lulu announced earlier this week that it had launched a Poetry site at www.Poetry.com, some confusion ensued. That’s because before Lulu bought the domain Poetry.com, it was owned by Watermark Media, which had operated a “contest” on the site that was largely regarded by the online poetry community as a scam.
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Borders to Overhaul Board, Enhance Book Clubs
Borders issued two very different announcements in the last 24-hours. The retailer said it will not need to ask for a reverse stock split and will elect an almost entirely new board of directors. It also said that it's added new features to its book clubs.
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The Return of ‘Blueberries for Sal’
Robert McCloskey’s Caldecott Honor picture book, Blueberries for Sal, hasn’t been available to order for the past year. However, following several years of negotiation between Penguin and McCloskey’s estate, that situation is about to change. Finally, last Thursday, an agreement was reached between Viking and the McCloskey estate for the entire body of McCloskey’s work.
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Amazon Launches App for Blackberry
Amazon.com unveiled its mobile app for Blackberry smart phones today. The app is similar to the iPhone app Amazon launched in December, allowing users to shop, access their Amazon account, and view various editorial features from their phones.
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Marshall Vows to “Do Whatever Is Necessary” to Turn Borders Books Around
In his first public comments since taking the helm of Borders Group at the beginning of the year, CEO Ron Marshall said he has four priorities in working to turn around the nation's second largest bookstore chain, starting with getting the retailer's “financial house in order.” His immediate goal is to create enough financial stability to allow the company to survive, and then to in...
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Flashlight Press Turns Five
Flashlight Press could also be called The Little Publisher That Could. Since the micro-press started five years ago, it has steadily published two to four 32-page picture books a year. Based out of Jerusalem, Shari Dash Greenspan serves as the tiny publisher’s jack-of-all-trades. She acquires and edits manuscripts, collaborates with the illustrators and maintains Flashlight’s web site.
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U of New Mexico Press Downsizes
Facing a weak economy and a drop in sales of over 20%, the University of New Mexico Press last week laid off two employees and is looking into outsourcing its warehouse/customer service operations.
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