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Orbit Books confirms coming expansions
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Orbit Books is planning to greatly expand its US program, increase the number of titles in the UK, and grow in Australia, as well as keeping all three groups working on concert...

Marvel reports declining sales in the publishing segment, but lauds strong Iron Man opening
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Publishling sales declined in the first quarter of 2008, but the company is expecting strong boosts from its film segment...

Stone Arch to publish children's chapter books with DC Comics characters
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DC Comics and Stone Arch Books have teamed up to publish chapter books based on DC characters including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman...

Penguin Group wins new Star Wars publishing license
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The Penguin Group US and UK won the global license to publish books based on the new film/tv franchise Star Wars: The Clone Wars...

Bloomsbury to switch Canadian distributors to Penguin Canada
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Bloomsbury Publishing (the publisher of Harry Potter) is switching its Canadian distribution to Penguin Canada from Raincoast Books...

New small press publisher Lyrical looking for science fiction and horror
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Lyrical Press is a new publisher, planning to publish e-books and some POD. They're actively seeking science fiction and horror...

Spectra news and fiction available in free SpectraPulse
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Bantam Spectra's new free magazine, SpectraPulse, will include interviews, excerpts, original fiction, and more...

Audible.com launches sf/f imprint: Frontiers
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On-line audio publisher Audible.com is spinning off its science fiction and fantasy titles into a new imprint all their own, Frontiers, which will offer gues editors, special recommendations...

Pyr's forthcoming books
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Pyr's scheduled Fall and Winter releases include books by Ian McDonald, Mike Resnick, Sean Williams...

Sean Wallace seeking help emptying Meisha Merlin's warehouse
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Tens of thousands of books (inventory) were left in a warehouse in Georgia when Meisha Merlin went out of business. Sean Wallace is trying to remove some (and offering others are payment for help) before...

Virgin Books launching new British horror line
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Virgin Books is launching a new horror line in the UK, with Ramsey Campbell scheduled to lead off the six-book first year in May...

SFWA's Contracts Committee comments on Amazon's Kindle contract
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SFWA's Contracts Committee looked into the boilerplate contract Amazon recently posted for authors wishing to make their books available through the booksellers Kindle system. Their annotation raises many questions and concerns...

Scholastic's latest financial report
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Scholastic is still seeing a bump from the release of the final Harry Potter book, and anticipates lower sales but higher income...

New Gilgamesh Press publishing horror anthologies
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Mark Deniz, formerly of Eneit Press, has launched Gilgamesh Press and Morrigan Books. He'll be taking over the previously announced Voices, and has announced a new anthology...

Random House earnings down; Bertelsmann may sell book clubs
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Random House gross and net income were down last year, though some of that is due to currency changes, but parent Bertelsmann is considering selling the underperforming book clubs, including...

Cold Cut Distribution is now Haven Distributors
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Rogue Wolf Entertainment recently purchased Cold Cut Distribution. Now they're changing the company's name to Haven Distributors...

"The Story Plant" is new publisher/packager
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Lou Aronica and Peter Miller have gone into business together, starting The Story Plant, which will be publishing books and much more...

Tor Books building new all-inclusive sf/f web site
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Tor Books is building a new web site, to include social communities, bloggers, free fiction, and more...

E-Reads and WebScriptions join forces; three titles available now
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E-Reads electronic book titles will now be available through WebScriptions. The first three, available now, are...

Juno Books updates: new books, cancelled books, new offerings
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Juno Books has dropped two previously announced anthologies which didn't fit with their new publishing direction, but has produced four books so far this year, as well as three e-books...

Blue Dream Studios now an imprint of IDW
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IDW Publishing is absorbing Scott Christian Sava's Blue Dream Studios as an imprint, hoping to play off recent successes by both companies, including...

Read Tor's newsletter, get free eBooks (more reading)
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Tor is offering a free electronic newsletter, and to go with it, free eBooks, including...

More on Nalo Hopkinson's Red Deer Press imprint
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Nalo Hopkinson has sent updates on SFScope's story about her new imprint through Red Deer Press...

Nalo Hopkinson starting eponymous imprint at Red Deer Press
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As a companion to Robert J. Sawyer Books, Red Deer Press has hired Nalo Hopkinson to create her own eponymous imprint...

NESFA to publish The One Right Thing by Bruce Coville
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NESFA's annual Boskone book will be a collection by Bruce Coville entitled The One Right Thing. Contents of the book include...
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