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LBYR Expands to West Coast
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers' fiction editorial director, Jennifer Hunt, is relocating to Los Angeles and expanding the imprint's presence on the West Coast. Hunt, who oversees the middle grade and YA lists at LBYR, will be working out of a home office in L.A. and will be, as the publisher notes, providing "an on-the-ground representative to explore opportunities in the entertainment and digital arenas."
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NBN to Downsize
In a letter that went out to National Book Network publishers yesterday, president Rich Freeze announced that NBN will not be adding any new clients and will downsize instead. "Our goal is to gradually shrink the number of clients we work for in order to serve you better," he wrote.
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New Christian Publishing House Debuts
Veteran Christian publisher Byron Williamson has announced the launch of a new publishing house, Worthy Publishing, which releases its first books this fall.
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FastPencil Premiere Signs Mercer Mayer
In less than six months, FastPencil Premiere has signed 20 authors, many of them bestsellers, and it announced its latest big name this week: children's book author and illustrator Mercer Mayer, who plans to release nine books with the imprint this year.
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News Briefs: Week of 1/24/11
Borders Lays off 45; Pubs Ponder Proposal, and More.
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New Haven Review Turns Book Publisher
The New Haven Review is the latest literary/cultural journal to dabble in book publishing. Late last year NHR published its first three books, slim paperbacks with deckled-edges and French flaps of Charles Douthat’s poems, Blue for Oceans; Gregory Feeley’s combination essay and novella, Kentauros; and Rudolph Delson’s wooing advice, How to Win Her Love.
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Random To Take Over Blue Apple Distribution
Independent children's publisher Blue Apple Books is moving its distribution services to Random House Publisher Services from Chronicle Books effective July 1, 2011. RHPS will handle sales and distribution worldwide for Blue Apple's 225 in-print titles and for future publications.
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Samhain Relaunches Website; Debuts Don D'Auria Horror Line
Don D'Auria, former executive editor at Dorchester's Leisure Books imprint and noted expert on the horror genre, has been hired by original e-book house Samhain Publishing to launch a line of horror titles. Samhain, an e-book publisher that also publishes traditional print titles, has also redesigned and relaunched the Samhain website.
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Amazon Plans 16 Novels for Next AmazonEncore
Amazon has announced the spring/summer list for its AmazonEncore imprint, which will feature 16 novels. Launched in 2009, AmazonEncore looks to publish overlooked books and emerging authors using information on Amazon.com such as customer reviews and sales data. The new list includes several books from a number of authors, including Karen McQuestion.
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Student Press Could Have Sleeper Hit
Lookout Books, the new student-run imprint at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, looks like it could have a literary and commercial success with its first title. An outgrowth of UNC Wilmington's Publishing Laboratory and its creative writing department, Lookout Books is overseen by poet Emily Smith, director of the Publishing Laboratory, and former Tin House editor Ben George, editor of UNC Wilmington's literary magazine, Ecotone.
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News Briefs: 1/17/11
Borders Cuts 15 and More.
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E-book Sales Rise Nearly 130% in November
E-book sales in November rose 129.7%, to $46.6 million, from the 14 publishers who report results to the Association of American Publishers’ monthly sales report. The gain was below the year-to-date average which has e-book sales ahead 165.6% through November, but was better than the 112.4% increase reported in October when e-book sales were $40.7 million.
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Arizona Shooting Piques Interest in HCI Title
The tragic shooting in Arizona has piqued interest in one seemingly unlikely title from HCI. The nine-year-old girl who died in the tragedy, Christina Green Taylor, was born on September 11, 2001, and was featured in HCI's book Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11, which came out in 2002. The book was never a big seller for HCI, with just a 10,000-copy first printing, but interest in it has spiked since the events last weekend.
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Brilliance Teams with Chicken Soup for Audio Editions
Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing and Brilliance Audio have started a new imprint, Chicken Soup for the Soul on Brilliance Audio. The imprint will publish and distribute audiobook editions of select books in the Chicken Soup series.
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J.D. Salinger Estate, Swedish Author Settle Copyright Suit
It appears that Holden Caulfield will remain under tight control of the Salinger estate—at least in North America.
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Pubs See Big Jump in Holiday E-book Sales
Based on figures provided to PW by publishers, a number of familiar names topped e-book bestseller lists over the holidays as consumers hit the Web downloading current bestsellers for their new e-readers.
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Ooligan Press Turns Students Into Publishers
Six years after its official launch, Ooligan Press has published 30 titles, with all but five still in print. Founded and still run by Dennis Stovall, Ooligan is the publishing affiliate of Portland State University in Oregon, giving graduate students real-world publishing experience.
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News Briefs: Week of 1/10/11
NewSouth Ups Print Run on New Twain, and more.
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Exit Interview: PW talks to Retiring University of California Press Director Lynne Withey
After 25 years, the last nine as director, Lynne Withey retired at the end of 2010 from the University of California Press, winding down a career marked by significant growth, innovation, and service.
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Bestsellers '10: The Year in Bestsellers
If we had to name the author of the year, it would be Stieg Larsson. With a combined weekly total of 202 weeks on the 2010 bestseller charts and an impressive 59 of those in the #1 spot, his Millennium trilogy outpaced all other bestsellers.
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