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Moving On at PMA
In 1983, Jan Nathan was asked to represent 15 small Southern California publishers at the ABA convention in Dallas. Nathan, a Brooklyn native but by then a longtime Californian, had dabbled in various publishing ventures, including transportation and travel magazines and had just started her own company, whose mission was to help manage trade associations.
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Big Books on Campus
This fall, university presses are at the forefront of the debate on many of today's front-page issues. In fact, one book, Poems from Guantánamo, actually made the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Iraq, the Guantánamo detainees, the environment, the role of religion in America today: these are the subjects of lead titles from several presses.
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A New Home for International Literature
Chad W. Post, formerly of Dalkey Archives Press, is leading a new publishing company dedicated to translations and other international literaure.
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Fulcrum Buys Speck; Adds Staff
Fulcrum Press has acquired Speck Press, adding 20 titles to its list; Speck founder Derek Lawrence will join Fulcrum in September as associate publisher.
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Doubleday to Publish Pelosi
First female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, has signed with Doubleday to release a memoir scheduled for publication in summer 2008.
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EBay Pulls Harry Potter 7 Listing--
Hours After Sale Was CompletedEBay has become the latest front in the battle to salvage the battered HP 7 embargo.
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Tales from the Slush Pile #82
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Scholastic's Intricate Plan to Guard HP 7
Apparently Undone By Upstart E-TailerParent company of DeepDiscount.com promises investigation of embargo breach, as Scholastic issues plea to readers who got copies early: "keep the packages hidden until midnight on July 21st."
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Wainwright to Crown
Katie Wainwright, formerly of Hyperion, will take up the post of Vice President, Executive Director of Publicity at Crown Publishing Group as of August 1, 2007.
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After 46 Years, FSG On the Move
Farrar, Straus & Giroux is making its first move since 1961, leaving Union Square and heading a few blocks west to new lodgings at 18 West 18th Street. The move is planned for the end of the year, possibly around the Christmas holidays.
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Nasshan Leaving Borders
Borders old guard continues its slow departure with news that head of trade books Bill Nasshan is stepping down.
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Scholastic Trying to Plug Web Leaks
Scholastic has obtained subpoenas to try to prevent Web sites from posting digital copies of the final volume of Harry Potter.
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How Will HM's Harcourt Buy Affect Trade?
The combination of the Houghton Mifflin and Harcourt trade units would create a company with revenue of about $200 million--and a formidable backlist of literary fiction and nonfiction.
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Amazon Buys Brilliance Audio
The e-tailer is increasing its commitment to audiobooks, acquiring publisher Brilliance Audio and expanding its CustomFlix disc on demand service.
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Winton Buys Soft Skull Press
Less than a week after announcing its acquisition of Counterpoint Press, Winton, Shoemaker & Co. LLC has acquired Soft Skull Press. Soft Skull publisher Richard Nash will join the new company as executive editor and will be editorial director of the Soft Skull imprint run from a New York office.
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Interlink: Quietly Hosting Voices
Michel Moushabeck arrived in Brooklyn in the late '70s from war-torn Beirut, bent on making some changes in the world.
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Borders Inks Three New Deals
The retail giant has signed agreements with Above the Treeline, Sterling Commerce and Source Interlink in three separate business ventures.
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Seriously Gay and Lesbian
There’s no shortage of light gay fare from mainstream publishing, but university presses are increasingly doing the heavy lifting.
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Designs on Classics
Hip literary memoirs revived at 1500 Books.
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New Looks for Classic Books: New Directions' Riessue Program
Famed and longstanding indie press New Directions books is in the midst of an ongoing reissue program, repackaging some of its most famous titles with new introductions by contemporary authors.
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