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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...

Massive personnel changes at Random House's upper sales levels
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Random House's new Senior Vice President of Adult Sales, Jaci Updike, has implemented a major realignment, eliminating some positions, adding others, and promoting several people...

Bleak House Books now represented by Maria Carvainis Agency
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Bleak House Books has announced that the Maria Carvainis Agency will represent all of their domestic and foreign subsidiary rights. Bleak House specializes in crime and dark literary fiction.

Eos gives away books for 10th anniversary
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Eos is celebrating its tenth anniversary by giving away free e-books every other month throughout the year. The first, Robin Hobb's Shaman's Crossing, is...

Raincoast closing publishing business
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Canadian publisher and distributor Raincoast Books, which worked on the Harry Potter series, is shuttering its publishing operations...

Baen Books now putting their logo on more than just books
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Baen Books has opened a Café Press store for their fans, with three different Baen logos on all sorts of things...

Orbit Books to Sponsor Aurealis Awards
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Little, Brown's sf imprint Orbit is sponsoring the Australian Aurealis Awards, supporting the local speculative fiction...

Norilana doing well and expanding
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Norilana Books has announced the formation of a new imprint for fantasy, and successful sales requiring them to pay royalties...

Hachette Audio becoming Digital
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Hachette Audio is changing its name to Hachette Digital, and merging in e-books and digital strategy with the division...

Juno Books publishes more, reprints, and has a new contest
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Juno Books announces the publication of their 17th and 18th titles of the year, the fact that they're going back to press on two others, and that they're running a new contest...

Pyr's "street team" reviews a pretty good year
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One of Pyr's "street team" members reviews the year, and it's been a pretty good one. Then she announces a book give-away...

Bantam Dell opens an island in Second Life
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Bantam Dell has its own Second Life island, where they host chats, podcasts, interviews, trivia nights, and all manner of virtual bookish things...

Anime-focused theatre to open in San Francisco
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
VIZ Pictures, the US distributor of much Japanese anime and live-action films, is opening its own art-house movie theatre...
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