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News Briefs: Week of October 3, 2011
Rinaldi Leaves Rodale
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Hachette Looks to Broaden Reach For Gail Carriger
Fans of the Parasol Protectorate, Gail Carriger’s five-book sci-fi series, will likely feel a pang of loss when the last book of the series, Timeless, is released in March 2012 and the adventures of Alexia Tarabotti come to a close. But that feeling won’t be around for long because in fall 2013, Orbit, publisher of the Parasol Protectorate series, will be releasing Prudence, a book by Carriger starring none other than Prudence, Alexia’s daughter.
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Eerdmans at 100: Building on Tradition
Eerdmans Publishing Company has always flouted convention. The press, founded in Grand Rapids, Mich., on August 16, 1911, by Dutch emigrant William B. Eerdmans Sr., who led it for 52 years, remains family-owned: William “Bill” Eerdmans Jr., the son of its founder, has served as the company’s president and publisher since 1963. While three other presses headquartered in Grand Rapids—Zondervan, Baker Publishing Group, and Kregel Publications—explicitly identify themselves as Christian publishers, Eerdmans isn’t so easily characterized.
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Podcast: PW’s Week Ahead for Friday, September 30
Amazon launches its new Kindle Fire Tablet, while in San Francisco, the inaugural E-Readers 2011 Conference kicks off. In this week's edition of Publishers Weekly's new podcast series with the Copyright Clearance Center's Beyond the Book Preview, PW’s features editor Andrew Richard Albanese and reviews editor Rose Fox join host Chris Kenneally to run down the week that was, and offer a sneak peek at next week's Publishers Weekly.
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William Morrow to Publish Courtney Love Memoir
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced plans to publish the definitive memoir and tell-all by controversial rock star and actress, Courtney Love.
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Penguin Continues with Read Pink Campaign
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Penguin has returned with its Read Pink campaign, in which it distributes as many romance titles as possible bearing the Read Pink seal, which is a familiar logo associated with breast cancer awareness.
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Uprise Aims to Bring Banned Books to Underprivileged Teens
The Uprise Books Project, an all-volunteer start-up organization, has one goal: to get banned and challenged books into the hands of underprivileged middle school and high school students.
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New Directions Resurrects Clarice Lispector with New Translations
Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), a preeminent Brazilian novelist little known to general readers in the U.S. and U.K. is about to become more well known, thanks to a series of new translations of many of her books from New Directions.
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Distribution: Univ. of Chicago Press Announces New Clients
The University of Chicago Press has announced new distribution and marketing partnerships with the Museum Tusculanum Press, DePaul University Art Museum, Policy Press, Northern Illinois University Press, gta publishers, and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
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HarperOne Takes A Healthy Turn
As HarperOne (the imprint formerly known as Harper San Francisco) approaches its 35th anniversary in 2012, the publisher that seeks to inspire transformation is in the middle of a transformation itself. "The first catalogue of Harper & Row San Francisco, said, ‘Philosophy, Religion and Issues of the Day,' " observed Mark Tauber, senior v-p and publisher of HarperOne. While spirituality/religion remains the imprint's top category, Tauber said, the company has been focused on ramping up its healthy living category.
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News Briefs: Week of September 26, 2011
Kindle Library Lending Goes Live and more.
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Podcast: PW’s Week Ahead for Friday, Sept. 23
This week, Publishers Weekly launches a new podcast series in partnership with the Copyright Clearance Center's “Beyond the Book.” Each Friday, editors from PW will join host Chris Kenneally for a quick look back at the week the week that was, and an early look at the forthcoming issue of PW.
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Vonnegut Library Says 'Slaughterhouse-Five' Repealed Ban Not Enough
Though the ban on Slaughterhouse-Five has been lifted in Republic, Mo., copies of the book are being held at a location that forces students to go get it.
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New Leaf Launches Two New Services
The Atlanta-based specialty wholesaler and small press distributor, New Leaf, has two new services: Easy eBooks and Total Inventory Management.
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Sourcebooks Announces New Education Division
Sourcebooks, publisher of the Fiske Guide to Colleges and The Naked Roommate, is creating an education division responsible for managing the company’s biggest existing initiatives.
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Fodor's and TripAdvisor Announce Partnership
Fodor’s and TripAdvisor have announced a collaboration giving travelers never-before access to the best in both professional and community-generated advice and reviews from each of their hallmark websites and guidebooks.
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Lost James M. Cain Novel to Be Published by Hard Crime in 2012
Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of mystery novels published by Titan Books, has announced the discovery of a lost crime novel written by James M. Cain, author of such classics as Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and The Postman Always Rings Twice. The new novel, The Cocktail Waitress, has never before been published. Hard Case Crime will bring the book out in Fall 2012. The Cocktail Waitress was the final book written by Cain, who died in 1977.
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