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Simon and Schuster Responds to Authors Guild
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Simon & Schuster responds to the Authors Guild. The Authors Guild had raised an alarm over the publisher's new boilerplate contract. Read more...

Orbit's Fall Line-Up and Free Book Give-away
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Grand Central's new sf imprint, Orbit, has announced its Fall line-up, and also a contest to give away a book a month...

SFBC's June Selections
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The Science Fiction Book Club's June selections include the newest books by John Scalzi, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jim Butcher, Newt Gingrich...

Science Fiction Book Club's April Purchases
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Editor Andrew Wheeler reports purchasing fifteen new books for the Science Fiction Book Club in April. These include...

Paper Golem's first book, Prime Codex, coming soon
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New small-press publisher Paper Golem will be publishing its first book Prime Codex, to coincide with Balticon 41 at the end of the month. Prime Codex is the result of...

Tor looking to hire editorial assistant
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Tor Books is looking to hire an editorial assistant. Duties for the job include office work, reading submissions, writing cover copy...

Lee and Miller affected by Meisha Merlin
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Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are two of the authors directly affected by the closure of Meisha Merlin. They're offering copies of their Meisha Merlin titles directly, have seen two projects...

Clarkesworld Books Closing its Doors; Magazine to Continue
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Neil Clarke is closing down Clarkesworld Books, in part because he and his wife lost a baby in early March. He will, however, continue publishing Clarkesworld Magazine, and is launching a new...

Meisha Merlin Going Out of Business
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Meisha Merlin Publishers has posted an announcement on their web site announcing their intentions to close the business next month, due to...

SFBC's May selections
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The Science Fiction Book Club's May selections include the newest books by J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert J. Sawyer, Allen Steele, and...

New imprint Shomi will bring manga feel to speculative romance
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Debuting with Wired in July, Dorchester's new Shomi imprint will bring a manga feel to speculative romance. Inspired by manga, but focusing on the prose, the first three books...

Bertelsmann buys TimeWarner's half of Bookspan
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Bertelsmann is buying TimeWarner's half of their joint Bookspan venture, bringing pretty much all of the Book Clubs under the BMG Columbia House unit. Bertelsmann paid an estimated...

Aspect is out; Orbit is in
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Hachette Publishing is retiring Warner Aspect, along with the general Warner Publishing name. They're rebranding to position the line more closely with their British imprint, Orbit. And they've made a "flagship" purchase for the line...

Harry Potter: Taking over the World... with a Conscience
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Scholastic is taking a more environmentally friendly approach to producing 12 million copies of the final Harry Potter volume. These steps include...

Second Life Bantam Dell Bookstore/Cafe
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Bantam Dell has opened a store on Sheep Island... in the virtual reality simulation Second Life. Author events, reading, book groups, and more are planned...

Dark Horse Moves to Diamond
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Dark Horse Books is moving the distribution of several of its imprints from the bankrupted and recently purchasded PGW to Diamond Book Distributors, which already had most of its business.

Marvel Sales Up in 2006
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Marvel sales increased in 2006, due mostly to trade paperbacks and hardcovers.
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