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Esther Reid Rejoins 'PW'
Esther Reid is rejoining Publishers Weekly as marketing manager. Reid worked at PW under the previous ownership of Reed Business Information, and most recently she was an executive assistant at the investment bank the Jordan Edmiston Group.
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Hot Topic: The Allure of The Cheeky Blog
Everyday people would chronicle their lives—or personal experiments like cooking your entire way through a Julia Child cookbook—get a following, then land a book deal. But now successful blogs don't need to tell a story, especially if they strike the funny bone.
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News Briefs: Week of 2/14/11
Powell's Lays Off 31 and More.
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Tor Launches Author-Hosted Twitter Feed
Macmillan’s science fiction imprint, Tor Books (@TorBooks), is launching a Twitter feed featuring a number of its marquee authors. The feed, #Torchat, will host hour-long discussions on the social networking site, about various SF topics, from 4-5 p.m. EST on the third Wednesday of every month. Tor authors currently lined up to host the chats include Greg Bear, Steven Gould, and M.J. Locke.
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S&S to Launch Emily Bestler Books Imprint at Atria
Emily Bestler, formerly Atria Books executive editorial director, has been promoted to editor-in-chief and senior v-p of Emily Bestler Books, a new Atria Books imprint that will launch in spring 2011. Emily Bestler Books will publish a list featuring both fiction and nonfiction.
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Amid Changes, B&H Discontinues Oliver North's Fidelis Imprint
B&H Publishing Group, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources, which produces Bibles, as well as reference, trade, and academic books, is discontinuing its Fidelis imprint. The imprint launched in 2009 and was led by retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, now an author and Fox News Channel host.
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Bloomsbury Forms Worldwide Publishing Divisions
U.K.-based Bloomsbury is restructuring its global operations, forming four worldwide divisions organized along categories rather than structuring the company along geographic lines.
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News Briefs: Week of 2/7/11
H.B. Fenn Bankrupt and More.
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Harper Changes the Audio Equation
Of the 150 titles on HarperCollins’s spring audio list, only two are being published on CD; the rest are being released as digital downloads. Although CD sales have been declining in the audio market for several years, no major house has moved away this drastically from the format.
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IBPA in Deal With Ingram
The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) has announced a new program for IBPA member publishers that will provide access to Ingram’s wholesaling and marketing programs. While IBPA believes the agreement will provide benefits to all members it will particularly helpful to presses with who are not currently working with the company.
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Metropolitan Books Bumps Up ElBaradei Title
With the international spotlight focused on Egypt, and the continuing unrest there, Metropolitan Books is pushing up its forthcoming title from Mohamed ElBaradei. The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times will be published around the world on April 26. The book was originally scheduled for June 3.
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Writer's Digest, Author Solutions Launch Abbott Press
Writer's Digest, the longtime publication and media company devoted to helping writers get published, is teaming up with self-publishing vendor Author Solutions to launch Abbott Press, a Writer's Digest-branded self-publishing division that will be managed by Author Solutions.
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News Briefs: Week of 1/31/11
Doubts Remain on Borders Financing, and more.
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Red Hen Press Works to Keep Poetry Relevant
To walk into the vintage Craftsman-style building that houses Red Hen Press in Pasadena, Calif., is to be reminded that founders Kate Gale and Mark Cull still believe in the cozy literary refinement and enduring reverence for poetry that they have been advocating since 1994, when the press released its first book.
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PGW and Grove/Atlantic Renew and Add E-Books
Grove/Atlantic and Publishers Group West have renewed their physical book distribution relationship, which has been in existence since 1994, and PGW will now provide digital distribution for Grove/Atlantic through its digital service, Constellation.
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Call for Information: Spring/Summer 2012 On-Sale Calendar
Needed: We're collecting information about your biggest titles to be published from May 1 through August 31, 2012 for our ON-SALE CALENDAR.
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TFH Publications and Discovery Renew Animal Planet Program
Pet publisher TFH Publications and Discovery Communications announced the five-year renewal of their co-branding Animal Planet print publishing program this week. The companies also added two new series.
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BookMasters Teams with MPS, Biohealthcare Publishing
The BookMasters Group has created an arrangement for its publishing clients to publish e-books. It also just announced a warehousing/fulfillment partnership with Biohealthcare Publishing in Oxford, UK.
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