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Tor.com finally goes live with massive blog, free fiction, and more
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Publisher Tor Books has launched a new web site offering free fiction and art, discussion boards, and a blog with contributors from their entire catalog and staff list...

Bertelsmann selling book clubs to private equity firm
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Bertelsmann has finally found a buyer for its struggling book, DVD, and music clubs...

Tor's New Freebies... and News
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This week, Tor is offering Flash by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., along with wallpapers by Chris McGrath and John Harris...

Audible's Frontiers's June offerings
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Audible.com's new sf/f imprint, Frontiers, has a guest editorial by Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card's monthly picks, and a slew of new titles...

Arcana Comics June newsletter
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Independent publisher Arcana Comics has just issued its June newsletter. In this issue, they: * talk about a major donation of comic books to the Boys and Girls Club of America * discuss the original computer-animated series ReBoot and their...

Tokyopop dividing and cutting staff, titles
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Manga publisher Tokyopop is restructuring itself into two divisions, laying off about 40 staff members, and cutting the number of titles published in half...

Pyr expanding its line
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After a little more than four years with the company, Editorial Director Lou Anders announces that Pyr will be increasing its line by about 50%...

Enemi Entertainment and Haven Distributors join forces
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Independent comic distributors Enemi Entertainment and Haven Distributors are partnering to produce a new catalog...

All Pyr's downloadable chapters, in one place
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Pyr has built a page on its web site that "aggregates all the online content," including many sample chapters...

Baen's entire Webscriptions catalog available for free... in low Earth orbit
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Baen Books entire Webscriptions catalog is now available for free to astronauts aboard the International Space Station...

Norilana establishing new imprint exclusively for the works of Tanith Lee
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Norilana's new TaLeKa imprint is designed solely to publish new and reprint works by Tanith Lee, illustrated by John Kaiine...

Random House: Peter Olson is leaving, Markus Dohle to replace him
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Random House CEO Peter Olson is leaving the company at the end of the month. He'll be replaced by Markus Dohle, who is currently the head of parent company Bertelsmann's printing operations...

Diamond to distribute Fantagraphics
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Fantagraphics Books has signed with Diamond Comic Distributors for distribution...

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...
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