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'People' Magazine Holds First Book Chat
Khaled Hosseini's upcoming And the Mountains Echoed will be the focus of the first ever People magazine book chat, hosted exclusively on people.com. From 2-3 PM ET on Thursday April 11, Hosseini will be taking questions from People readers about The Kite Runner as well as his other two novels, A Thousand Splendid Suns and his forthcoming And the Mountains Echoed.
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Harlequin Cleared In Royalty Case
Harlequin has been cleared by the courts in a case filed by three authors who claimed the publisher did not pay them all the royalties they were due on e-books covered under contracts signed between 1990 and 2004.
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Gillian Flynn's First Two Novels Get Repackaged
Broadway is repackaging Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Dark Places, to be released this month as paperbacks.
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Tumblr Book Search Turns 'Sh*t Rough Drafts' into Book
Chronicle Books announced that it will publish Paul Laudiero and his Sh*t Rough Drafts, a first-time author and the grand-prize winner of The Great Tumblr Book Search. Additionally Chronicle and Tumblr have announced that the contest will be an annual partnership.
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New Owners for Tilbury House, Publishers
Publishing veterans Jon Eaton and Tris Coburn, founders of Cadent Publishing, are expanding their operations with the purchase of a 40-year-old publishing house in Maine.
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Harvard Common Press Opens San Francisco Office
The Harvard Common Press announced that they have completed the process of opening a San Francisco office, which will be headed up by associate publisher, Adam Salomone.
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Cassandra Clare Tops Bestseller List
Nielsen BookScan's top 10 for the week ending March 24 saw five debuts, with Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Princess topping the bestseller list with 68,000 copies sold in its first week.
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News Briefs: Week of April 1, 2013
Amazon Buys Goodreads and more
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Amber Books Marks 15 Years
Amber Books, an independent publisher specializing in nonfiction titles for the African-American market, marked its 15th anniversary in February by winning an NAACP Image Award in the Youth/Teen category for publishing Gregory Reed’s book, Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons—A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders.
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Podcast: Shades of Grey...And Green
Random House parent company Bertelsmann has put a cap on a record year for the global publishing giant with an announcement that worldwide revenue at RH rose almost 23%, while the companies’ profits operating margin jumped almost 76%. Listen here.
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Herman to Head Up Peanuts Publishing
Craig Herman joined Peanuts Worldwide on March 18 as executive director of publishing.
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Miller Stepping Down as NavPress President
Dr. Mike Miller, president of NavPress since 2007, has decided to transition out of his role effective May 31, 2013.
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Penguin Classics and powerHouse Arena Launch New Literary Series
Brooklyn bookstore powerHouse Arena and Penguin Classics have teamed up for a new series of salon-style literary events celebrating classic literature.
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Graywolf Lures McSweeney's Editorial Director
Ethan Nosowsky, McSweeney's editorial director since late 2011, will return to Graywolf Press on April 15 as editorial director there. Nosowsky was editor-at-large at the Minneapolis literary nonprofit press between 2007-2011.
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Winton Stepping Down as Counterpoint Publisher
After founding the Berkeley, Calif.-based Counterpoint over five years ago, Charlie Winton is handing over the reigns to a new boss.
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University of Nebraska Press Acquires Potomac Books
Potomac Books has been acquired by the University of Nebraska Press, effective March 31, 2013.
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Goodall Book Postponed Due to Plagiarism Claims
Grand Central has delayed publication of Jane Goodall's Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder From the World of Plants after it was found that multiple passages in the book were borrowed without attribution from Web sites including Wikipedia.
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Fodor's Committed to Print
In light of last week's news that Google has pulled the plug on print editions of Frommer's guidebooks, Amanda D'Acierno, senior v-p and publisher of Fodor's Travel, made a few comments about her company's commitment to print guidebooks.
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TheWriteDeal, State of New Mexico Team Up for Bilingual E-Books
A joint initiative with the state of New Mexico to publish a series of free bilingual e-books for children adds momentum to the one-year old electronic-only publisher TheWriteDeal



