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California Booksellers Could Face Fines Under Privacy Law
California booksellers could face civil fines of up to $500 if they improperly disclose customer information under a state law on reader privacy that goes into effect on January 1.
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It’s Getting Late: Spring Announcements Deadline!
Please recall that the title collection for PW’s spring adult and children’s announcements—the Jan. 23 and Feb. 20 issues, respectively, is is under way, and the Dec. 5 deadline for entries fast approaches—that’s next Monday!
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World Book Night U.S. Reveals Advisory Council
World Book Night U.S. has announced an expanded publishing and bookselling advisory council. Several in the group will work with an ABA bookseller task force on in-store materials and community outreach.
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BEA Now Accepting Submissions
BookExpo America is now accepting submissions for the Editors Buzz Forum (deadline January 15, 2012) and the Education Program (deadline February 1, 2012). For more information about the submission process, please contact sdedecker@aol.com.
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Hachette Releases 2011 Environmental Progress Report
Two years after formalizing its environmental program, Hachette has released its 2011 Environmental Progress Report.
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World Book Night U.S. Open House
A World Book Night Open House for Publishers will be held this Wednesday, November 30 from 5:30-6:15 at the AAP offices. Attendees can meet Jamie Byng, founder of World Book Night, and Carl Lennertz, the U.S. executive director for a glass of wine and an informal chat to update publishers in the area on World Book Night US and UK. Space is limited. Please RSVP to carl@worldbooknight.org for address and other info.
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Call for Information: 'PW' December 12 Movie Tie-in Feature
This feature will cover movies being released January 1 through April 30; please send information to Dick Donahue at ddonahue@publishersweekly.com.
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Richard Kane Bolsters Casemate's Spring Lineup
Philadelphia-based military history publisher Casemate has announced its largest and most diverse list of spring titles to date, bolstered by this fall's addition of Richard Kane.
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The ‘Underground’ Drives Sales at Microcosm
Founded in Cleveland 16 years ago in Joe Biel’s bedroom, Microcosm Publishing is a “self-empowerment” and alternative culture publisher and distributor in Portland, Ore., and Lansing, Kansas. Originally a distributor of zines and records, Microcosm has grown into a company with a knack for selling alternative culture books.
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News Briefs: Week of November 28, 2011
Down Quarter For BAM! and more.
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Halpern Reflects on 40 Years of Ecco
On the 40th birthday of his imprint at HarperCollins, Ecco, publisher Dan Halpern reflects on over four decades in the publishing industry, a business he says, in many ways, has not changed that much.
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Yale Provides Access to Stalin’s Papers in Digital Archive
Stalin’s personal papers, many accessible only at the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, more than 28,000 documents in all, are part of a Web-based initiative that Yale University Press is currently beta testing, the Stalin Digital Archive (www.stalindigitalarchive.com).
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Perseus Signs with Espresso
The Perseus Books Group will make “a wide array” of its titles available through the Espresso Book Machine, and its 250 distribution clients will also be able to offer titles through the machine. Perseus follows HarperCollins as the second major trade house to offer a selection of its titles through EBM.
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NBA Winners Get Audiobooks from Recorded Books
Recorded Books will publish audiobooks of the 2011 National Book Awards winners in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and young people's literature.
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Rowman & Littlefield Launches Web site Covering All Imprints
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc. (RLPG) has launched a new website to encompass all of its publishing programs: www.rowman.com.
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Hazelden Joins Harvard Medical School for 'The Almost Effect' Series
Harvard Medical School is teaming up with Hazelden Publishing to release a book series on "The Almost Effect"--a concept that reveals a paradigm shift in mental health that will help people who exhibit behavior that falls outside of normal but fails to meet the criteria for a particular diagnosis.
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Putnam Acquires Two Paretsky Novels
G.P. Putnam’s Sons acquired two new novels in award-winner Sara Paretsky’s New York Times-bestselling V.I Warshawski series.
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'Creative Nonfiction' Launches Creative Nonfiction Books
Creative Nonfiction, the magazine founded in 1993, has launched Creative Nonfiction Books.
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