Distribution: Charlesbridge and Random House Agree

Charlesbridge Publishing and Random House Publisher Services have announced a multiyear sales and distribution partnership, effective January 1, 2014. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trajectory To Distribute Macmillan, MIT Press E-books in China

Trajectory has partnered with Chinese mobile carrier Xiaomi to bring ebooks into the Chinese digital book market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers and agents agree to speed up contracts

Publishers and agents have agreed a set of guidelines for negotiating author contracts, following concerns author payments were being delayed.  The Publishers Association (PA) and Association of Authors’ Agents (AAA)  said the guidelines were designed to “speed up the process for the benefit of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Coffee House Press Uses $100K Grant to Build Up Writers Residency Program

Coffee House Press in Minneapolis has just received a $100,000 grant from the Bush Foundation. The press said it intend to use much of the grant money its In the Stacks residency program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mattel moves Barbie in-house

Toy giant Mattel revealed its publishing plans to The Bookseller Daily at Bologna, including the dramatic shift of moving creation of Barbie assets in-house, plus new ranges for Thomas & Friends and Bob the Builder. Venetia Davie, vice-president of global publishing at Mattel, said that... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ian Harding Loves Connecting With Fans Online—Until They Show Up at His House

Specs Age 28 Claim to fame Stars as Ezra Fitz on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars; five-time Teen Choice Awards winner Base Los Angeles Twitter @IANMHARDING What's the first information you consume in the morning? I wake up, I'll meditate, and then I'll read something. I try to wake up 45... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reader's Digest Condensed Book Series to Get Wider Distribution

The Reader’s Guild has signed a long-term licensing agreement to market and publish Reader’s Digest's Condensed Book series as Reader’s Digest Classic Editions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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China’s Tencent Lit, Trajectory Ink Digital Distribution Pact

Trajectory will distribute more than 200,000 Chinese language ebooks to the South and North American marketplace and export English language ebooks into China via Tencent Literature's content platform. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thrillist Media Group Is the Latest Media Company to Launch an In-House Agency

Want to get through to the hard-to-reach millennial male? Thrillist Media Group thinks it knows the formula. The digital publisher announced the creation of The CoLab, its own in-house agency that will work with brands to create native activations and content. "We wanted to have one cohesive... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH strong on Pushkin House shortlist

Two books from Penguin Random House have made the shortlist for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée (Harvill Secker) has made the shortlist, alongside Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Four Canadian Publishers Move Distribution to University of Toronto Press

Douglas & McIntyre, House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books, Greystone Books, and New Society Publishers will move distribution to the University of Toronto Press beginning in May. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Coffee House Launches First Imprint with Emily Books

The Minneapolis literary nonprofit is Brooklyn-based Emily Books to launch the Emily Books imprint. The partnership, according to Coffee House's Chris Fischbach, is paving the way for Emily Books co-founders, Emily Gould and Ruth Curry, to eventually launch their own press. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon hires former White House press secretary

Amazon has hired former White House press secretary Jay Carney as senior v.p. for worldwide corporate affairs. Carney, who served as press secretary for US President Barack Obama for more than three years until 2014, will begin in his new job on Monday, Politico reported. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson Earns £69M in 2014 from Penguin Random Stake

Pearson reported 2014 earnings of £69 million, after taxes, from its 47% stake in Penguin Random House. For the year Pearson reported total revenues of £4.8 billion and operating earnings of £720 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Walliams and Jeffers win Red House awards

Books by Sophie McKenzie, David Walliams and Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers were today (21st February) announced as winners at the Red House Children’s Book Award 2015. Walliams’ Demon Dentist (HarperCollins Children’s Books) won the Books for Young Feaders category, while Split Second by... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Susan Golomb Joining Writers House

Veteran literary agent Susan Golomb, whose clients include Jonathan Franzen and William T. Vollmann, will be starting at Writers House on March 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chicken House partners with film company Altitude

Chicken House and Altitude, a film production company, are teaming up to develop book and film projects simultaneously. “Instead of waiting for a final book to take into movie production, we will find scripts or treatments together and develop them at the same time,” said Barry Cunningham, m.d.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How the White House Found a Publishing Ally in Medium

The White House published President Obama’s 2016 fiscal budget on Monday using a medium that’s become increasingly popular among its advisors: Medium, the three-year old self-publishing platform.    In the past three mon ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chicken House acquires debut from Lucinda Martin

Chicken House has acquired Moth and the Nightingale, a middle-grade children’s novel from debut author Lucinda Martin. The book, described as a “subtle and surprisingly modern interpretation of the lonely, bookish child”, tells the story of Henry, a young girl whose life changes when she meets... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Memorial Held for Coffee House's Allan Kornblum

Approximately 250 people--a mix of Minnesota’s book publishing community, Coffee House Press authors, and others--celebrated the life of CHP's founding publisher, Allan Kornblum, in a memorial service in Minneapolis on January 17. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Holtzbrinck And BCP Agree to Merge Science and Education Brands

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, owners of Macmillan Science and Education, and BC Partners, owners and fund advisors of Springer Science+Business, have reached a merger agreement to join the two groups. Holtzbrinck, whose portfolio includes Nature and Scientific American, will hold 53 percent of... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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