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Brooklyn Public Library strikes deal with Simon & Schuster

Susan Lulgjuraj — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:28:42 +0000

The main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library is how we all imagine a library should look—large ornate doors and columns with gold designs on each side. You feel as though you are walking into someplace special—as libraries should feel. But the Brooklyn Public Library, the fifth largest system in the country, isn’t immune to [...]

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Retailers begin discounting Macmillan e-books

Susan Lulgjuraj — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:04:10 +0000

Retailers are finally discounting Macmillan-published e-books – nearly two months after it settled its Department of Justice’s price fixing case. Prices of e-books have been lowered on sites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, according to Publishers Lunch. This includes books such as Silver Linings Playbook, Killing Lincoln and Ender’s Game. That leaves Penguin [...]

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Arthur Frommer reacquires his guidebook brand from Google

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:57:05 +0000

According to an Associated Press report that was filed less than three hours ago today, the travel publishing pioneer Arthur Frommer “said Wednesday that he has reacquired rights to his travel guidebook brand from Google, and that he intends to resume publishing Frommer guidebooks.” Back on the 22nd of March, we reported on the news [...]

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Morning Links: Barnes & Nobles is playing hardball

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:11:35 +0000

Barnes & Noble/Simon & Schuster Dispute Said to Hurt Sales (NY Times) Citizen Journalism at Work: Unemployed British Man Becomes Syrian Weapons Expert (Paid Content) FAA Evaluating Use of eBooks on Airplanes (Good e-Reader) Thanks, Google Keep! Evernote Sees Uptick in Downloads, Usage (GigaOM) Kindle Daily Deals: The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg (and 3 others)

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Feeling Bookish: CEO Ardy Khazaei on the real aims—and real benefits—of the publisher joint venture

Brian Howard — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:45:18 +0000

While it’s odd to think of an organization backed by the Penguin, Hachette and Simon & Schuster as a startup, Bookish, the new book-recommendation and -discovery site is essentially that. After two years in development under three CEOs, Bookish is now a reality, a place where users can get recommendations—based on titles or groups of titles [...]

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Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books to offer physical e-book vouchers

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:27:34 +0000

We’ve reported a number of times over the years about small start-ups that are attempting to solve the quandary of the author autograph in the digital age. A reader attending an in-person author appearance and hoping to walk away with a signed book, for instance, is clearly out of luck if she happens to only own the [...]

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Morning Links — E-Book Sales Are Up

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:49:30 +0000

Children’s and YA Revenue up Nearly 22% (Galley Cat) AAP Reports eBook Sales Up 46% in 2012 (The Digital Reader) eBooks Represent 17% of Sales At Penguin (App Newser) Librarian Cites ‘Concerning’ Trends in Digital Collection Development (The Digital Shift) Kindle Daily Deals: Guinness World Records 2013 (and 3 others)

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BREAKING: Macmillan Settles with DOJ on Price Fixing

Juli Monroe — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:30:07 +0000

Apple is now the lone hold-out. As you may recall, three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster—immediately settled, leaving Penguin, MacMillan and Apple to fight it out in court. Penguin settled in December, probably to protect their pending merger with Random House. And now Macmillan joins its fellows. Macmillan CEO John Sargent cited financial reasons [...]

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Morning Roundup — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:40:27 +0000

Amazon Sweetens Deal for KDP Select Authors to the Tune of 1.5 Million (Digital Book World) Iran’s Latest Move to Stifle Dissent: Requiring ID Cards to go Online (Techdirt) Why Are Android Users Less Engaged than iOS Users? (GigaOM) Simon & Schuster will Enter Self-Publishing World (Christian Science Monitor) Kindle Daily Deal: Dead Spots by [...]

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Morning Roundup — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:53:29 +0000

Amazon is the Devil—and I Love it (Salon) Self-Publishing Gains Ground, Acceptance (Good E-Reader) HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster Reportedly in Preliminary Merger Talks (Paid Content) Kindle Daily Deal: The Charleston Connection by Tom MacDonald {and} Promise the Night by Michaela MacColl * * *

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Morning Roundup — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:49:21 +0000

Bartlett’s Quotation’s New Digital Face (Good E-Reader) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Buys Webster’s New World Dictionary (MediaBistro) Publisher Earnings Roundup: Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster (Paid Content) E-books Marketshare at 22%, Amazon has 27% (Publisher’s Weekly) Kindle Daily Deal: Twelve Months by Steven Manchester {and} Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf * * * Follow us [...]

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Simon & Schuster to publish more reworked Twilight fanfic

Chris Meadows — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:04:27 +0000

Ever since reworked Twilight fanfic Fifty Shades of Grey hit bookstore shelves and immediately burned a path up the charts, many publishers have been giving more serious consideration to fanfic. Might it make a decent source of publishable stories, a sort of Internet slushpile they could mine for nuggets at their leisure? But it seems [...]

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Morning Roundup — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:31:16 +0000

Simon & Schuster Experiences 20% Increase in Digital Sales in Q3 (Good E-Reader) Over It: Bookish Conversations We Never Want to Have Again (Book Riot) Bad Science is Coming to Get Us (Techdirt) Which Publishers Do Best at eBook Sales? (Forbes) Kindle Daily Deal: Chocolat by Joanne Harris {and} The Secret of the Sirens by Julia [...]

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E-Book consumers to receive refund of $0.25 – $1.32 per title in price-fixing settlement

Matthew Marchesano — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 02:32:50 +0000

Over the past few days, a wealth of information has surfaced regarding the $69 million settlement three of the so-called ‘Agency Five’ publishers will be paying to 54 states and U.S. territories for the alleged price-fixing of e-books. Still, information regarding what we consider to be two of the case’s more immediately fascinating aspects—the cash refunds due to consumers, and the [...]

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Pocket Star relaunched by Simon & Schuster as dedicated ebook imprint

Paul Biba — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:35:16 +0000

From the press release: - Louise Burke, Executive Vice President and Publisher, announced today that Pocket Books, America’s first paperback publisher, has re-launched its Pocket Star line as an eBook-only imprint. As it did in print, Pocket Star will continue to feature bestselling and debut authors in popular genres including women’s fiction, romance, thrillers, urban [...]

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