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Council Oak Gets Makeover
James Connolly has worn a number of different hats in his publishing career, most recently as publisher of the books division of University Games of San Francisco, which followed his time as CEO and publisher of Bay/Soma Books, but it didn’t take long for him to make the move to Council Oak Books after talking earlier this fall with the inventor and entrepreneur Maurice Kanbar, who has been Council Oak’s sole owner for about a decade.
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Sleeper Hits from Big Houses
There may be no greater indication of how things have changed in corporate publishing than the results of an informal PW search for sleeper hits of the year from major publishers. We annually round up sleepers from indie publishers for a late summer feature, but we have not made a regular habit of asking the bigger houses for their under-the-radar surprises.
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Globe Pequot Press Goes Back to Its Roots
In August 2009, Jim Joseph was named president and COO of Globe Pequot Press. At the time the Guilford, Conn., press was going through something of an identity crisis. In the three years before Joseph’s appointment, Globe Pequot had been trying to remake itself along the lines of a New York City trade publishing house.
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News Briefs: Week of December 12, 2011
MHE Axes 550 and more.
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Merger Forms New Dutch House, Atlas-Contact
Contact Publishers and Atlas, Augustus, Mouria, and L.J. Veen are joining into one publishing house, called Atlas-Contact, beginning January 2012.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, December 9
Earlier this week, PW's Andrew Albanese notes, the university libraries that form the digitization initiative known as HathiTrust filed their answer to the Authors Guild suit against them.
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Distribution: Publishers Group West Adds Five New Clients
Publishers Group West has announced five new distribution clients for the spring 2012 season: Watershed Media, Tara Books, Readers to Eaters, Paper Punk, and Night Shade Books.
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Distribution: IPG Adds 14 New Publishers
Independent Publishers Group has entered into agreements with 14 new publishers for both print and electronic distribution.
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McGraw-Hill Education Slashes 550 Jobs
As its moves forward in spinning off McGraw-Hill Education into a separate company, the McGraw-Hill Cos. announced late Wednesday plans to cut 10% of MHE’s workforce—about 550 positions—and reduce its executive ranks by 20%. The downsizing is expected to be largely completed by the end of the year.
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Grand Central and Little, Brown U.K. Partner for Thrillers in Translation
Grand Central Publishing has announced a partnership with Little, Brown Book Group U.K. The two publishers jointly acquiring and publishing up to six titles per year, focusing on crime/suspense/thrillers in translation.
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Amazon Kindle Fire Ignites Publishing App Expo Discussion
The first day of the Publishing App Expo, hosted by Mediabistro, Galleycat, and eBookNewser, brought together digitally-minded publishers from all over and inspired a lively discussion at the New Yorker Hotel.
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Call for Information: Calling All Audio!
Audiobook publishers are reminded that we are accepting spring audio listings information for our February 6 issue. A letter has already gone out to audio publishers, but if you haven't submitted yet, please do so this week (deadline: Dec. 8).
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Abrams Restructures Editorial Department
Abrams has made changes to its adult editorial and art and design departments, including Steve Tager, senior v-p, publisher for adult trade, who will oversee Abrams' adult editorial and design departments. He will lead the overall program and team.
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Melville House Dropping New Book to a Penny
In honor of the novel's 93-year-old protagonist, the book will start priced at $9.30 and it will drop a penny for each 10 people who tweet #LambertoLambertoLamberto until the price hits $0.01 on mhpbooks.com.
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Sourcebooks EDU Launched
Sourcebooks officially launches new multimedia division, Sourcebooks EDU, targeting the college-bound market.
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Running Press Cooks Web Site Revamped
Running Press has revamped the Running Press Cooks web site at http://www.runningpresscooks.com.
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Book Sales Inc. Launches New Website
Book Sales Inc. has launched a new website for trade customers: www.booksalesusa.com.
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News Briefs: Week of December 5, 2011
Coates Launches E-bookstore, Bilbary and more.
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