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Sister Spit Books Becomes New Imprint of City Lights Publishers
San Francisco author and literary activist Michelle Tea has teamed up with City Lights Publishing to launch the Sister Spit imprint in September with Tea's Sister Spit: Writings, Rants, and Reminiscence.
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Banned 'Looking for Alaska' Gets Defense from Anti-Censorship Groups
John Green’s young adult novel Looking for Alaska once more became the target of censorship when it was recently banned from classrooms in Sumner County, Tenn.
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Distribution: INscribe Signs Eight New Deals
INscribe has announed a new slate of distribution deals with Harvest House Publishers, Wayne State University Presss, M-Y Books, Folio Literary Management, The Laura Dail Literary Agency, Mercury Ink, Publishing Consultants, and Oberon Books.
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Crown Hires Full-Time Brand Strategist
Kimberly Snead has been hired to fill the newly created role of director of brand strategy at Random House's Crown Publishing Group.
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Weinstein Books Rises, Again, With New Team
It might not have had as many lives as your average cat, but Weinstein Books has gone through more than a few reincarnations. The new team at Weinstein, which has Georgina Levitt as publishing director and Amanda Murray as editorial director, was announced in February, and the pair will release their first title, Bully (which is based on the Weinstein-produced documentary of the same name), in September.
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News Briefs: Week of May 14, 2012
HMH Redoing Debt and more
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Eamon Dolan Returns to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Eamon Dolan returned to HMH in May 2011 after moving to the Penguin Press in 2007. Since his return Dolan has immersed himself in preparing for the launch of his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, May 11
Authors’ representatives – otherwise known as literary agents – have done some writing on their own this week.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Fifty Shades' Passes 'Hunger Games'
It took just over five months for it to happen, but Fifty Shades of Grey has passed The Hunger Games as Amazon's #1 bestselling book of 2012.
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Tracking Amazon: An Out-of-Nowhere Success in 'Loyalty Leap'
In the past 24 hours, The Loyalty Leap: Turning Customer Information into Customer Intimacy (Portfolio) by Bryan Pearson has gone from #810,597 to #4 on the Amazon bestseller list, placing it behind only the Fifty Shades trilogy. Pearson is the president and CEO of LoyaltyOne Inc., a global provider of loyalty strategies.
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Story Beam, The Moving Picture Book
In white polycarbonate casing with aluminum fixings and measuring 91.5x95x95 millimeters, Story Beam is a portable mini beam projector that functions as a bedtime storyteller.
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AAR Urges Members to Write to DoJ Opposing Antitrust Settlement
After Writers House agent Simon Lipskar got some traction from an open letter he wrote to the DoJ listing the ways in which the department's suit against publishers was misguided and ill-informed, the AAR is making public an official protest letter of its own.
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Mitchard to Launch YA Imprint for F+W
F+W Media has tapped bestselling novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard to head a new young adult imprint for the publisher called Merit Press Books.
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Wiley Buys Harlan Davidson
John Wiley & Sons has acquired the higher educational publisher Harlan Davidson, Inc., which is a family-owned business based in Illinois.
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Tracking Amazon: Viral Poetry Reading Launches Sarah Kay's 'B'
Sarah Kay, who performed her poem "If I should have a daughter..." at TED 2011 conference and saw it become a huge Internet sensation, now has a book from The Domino Project ranked #22 on the Amazon bestseller list.
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PW’s Fall Announcements Deadline!
The Publishers Weekly portal (powered by Edelweiss) is open for publisher submissions of fall titles, adult and children’s—but it closes at end of day, Monday, May 14.
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Soho Press Pushes Forward Under Hruska
Soho Press, an independent publisher with a full-time staff of nine, is made up of a band of fiercely loyal book lovers. The press was taken over by publisher Bronwen Hruska in 2010.Juliet Grames, Soho’s senior editor, said, about working with her: “For our first 25 years we were a quality literary house that got great reviews, but which people hadn’t heard of. You absolutely can’t say that anymore.” Pointing to Soho’s increasing numbers, Grames added, “Our revenue has ballooned since [Hruska] started—our books are sold in channels we never imagined before. Her tenure here has seen more bestsellers than the rest of Soho’s history put together.”
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Self-Published Book Back in Print after 126 Years
Princeton Architectural Press will publish America’s Other Audubon, which includes 68 lithographs and field notes from Genevieve Jones’s 1886 self-published book.
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Tracking Amazon: Mantel's Wolf Hall Books Rise
Holt's May 8 publication of Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to 2009's Booker-winning Wolf Hall, is not only selling well in the days leading up to its release, it's also drumming up interest in its predecessor.
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