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Jeff VanderMeer's Ministry of Whimsy Press to be revived
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Jeff VanderMeer will be reviving his Ministry of Whimsy Press as an imprint of Neil Clarke's Wyrm Publishing. The planned first projects include...

Disney Publishing Worldwide moves to White Plains
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Disney Publishing Worldwide, the umbrella for Disney's children's publishing, is moving most all of its operations to a new office in White Plains, New York, vacating space in lower Manhattan...

Pan Macmillan buys Kingfisher from Houghton Mifflin
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Houghton Mifflin sold children's book publisher Kingfisher, which publishes fiction and non-fiction, to the UK's Pan Macmillan. In the US, it will be run by...

Baen Books to epublish Subterranean titles
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Baen Books will be offering Subterranean Press titles as ebooks through the former's webscriptions program...

Small Beer Press Moves
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Small Beer Press has moved to a new office. Their new address is...

Potter Profits Do Magical Things for Scholastic
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Sales of the Harry Potter series, specifically the last book, Deathly Hallows, resulted in a magical quarter for publisher Scholastic...

BOOM! Studios sale in honor of "Talk Like a Pirate Day"
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In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, BOOM! Studios is having a sale on Pirate Tales, and because they've decided there's a connection, Ninja Tales...

PS Publishing announces more than 50 titles
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PS Publishing has announced its list of forthcoming titles through the end of 2008. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Jose Farmer...

Fire at Prometheus Books brings down Pyr web site
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An electrical fire at Prometheus Books forced evacuation of the building (there were no injuries), and brought down the Prometheus and Pyr web sites...

Juno Books' new publication schedule
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Juno Books, which publishes "fantasy with a focus on the female," has just updated its schedule through the end of 2008. This schedule reflects their newest venture: publishing mass market paperbacks. The new schedule is: The Eternal Rose by Gail...

Tor Books Podcasts to Debut during WorldCon
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Tor Books will begin producing podcasts during WorldCon. The shows from Japan will be hosted by Tom Doherty and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and available for downloading...

Harlan Ellison / Fantagraphics Settlement Publicly Available
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The full 15-page text of the settlement between Harlan Ellison and Fantagraphics is now available on the latter's web site. The key provisions of the agreement are...

Sourcebooks new romance lines to include paranormal, fantasy, science fiction
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Sourcebooks will be introducing their first fiction titles this September, with a paranormal romance called Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, about a ghost and...

More on Weekly World News closing
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Bob Greenberger, an editor with Weekly World News, has published some more color on the announcement that the publication is being closed...

Weekly World News Shutting Down
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The supermarket tabloid (and web site) Weekly World News is being shut down by owner American Media. No reason was given, although there were offers...

Harry Potter Place opens with festivities and fun
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Harry Potter Place is now open in New York City, on Mercer Street between Prince and Spring Streets. The festivities there will run through tonight's midnight release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...

Night Shade Books' 50% Off Sale
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Night Shade Books is offering a 50% off sale through 29 July on orders of four books or more. All in-stock and forthcoming books are included. Some of the new titles they've just added include...

Harry Potter sales: they're not just for books and movies
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The Nielsen Company has compiled a large report on the Harry Potter series's impact on the entertainment industry, breaking it down by category and country. We've excerpted the 11-page report here, and provide a link to the complete document...

Harlan Ellison and Fantagraphics Books Settle Lawsuit
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Harlan Ellison's lawsuit against Fantagraphics for defamation has apparently been settled, but neither party is at liberty to discuss the details...

"Harry Potter Place" coming to New York City
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To kick off the actual publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Scholastic is hosting a street fair at their New York City headquarters on 20 July. "Harry Potter Place" will feature entertainment, magicians, wand-making...

Circlet Press Moves, Offers New Web Site
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Circlet Press, "the independent publisher of erotic science fiction," has moved and inaugurated a new web site, with articles, essays, and information...

Simon and Schuster Willing to Negotiate on Rights
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Simon & Schuster executives met with representatives of the Association of Authors' Representatives to clarify their position, that they are willing to negotiate...

New Editor for the SFBC
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Rome Quezada has been hired as the new editor of the Science Fiction Book Club...

Major Changes at SFBC
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Bertelsmann confirms that SFBC is not going out of business, but Senior Editor Ellen Asher is leaving 1 June, and Editor Andrew Wheeler appears to be no longer in the SFBC office...

Circlet Press 2.0 Offers Book Sale Until 1 June
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Circlet Press has reinvented itself, and to "work out the kinks" in the new e-commerce system, is offering five titles at $2.50 each until...
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