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Archives for February 2008

Lunch for Friday, February 29

February 29, 2008
By Michael Cader

Oprah Sells Tolle at Record Pace Following Oprah’s enthusiastic endorsement Eckhart Tolle’s A NEW EARTH has added another 3.45 million copies in print, “the record for the most copies ever shipped by Penguin Group USA in a four-week period.” That’s on top of an initial shipment of 776,000 copies in advance of the Oprah announcement. […]

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Lunch for Thursday, February 28

February 28, 2008
By Michael Cader

Virgin USA in Flux Founding publisher of Virgin Books USA Ken Siman has resigned his permanent position to become a consultant to the business. He will continue to edit and publicize the books that he has acquired. The line, distributed by Holtzbrinck, was put in an odd position from the start after Random House UK […]

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Lunch for Wednesday, February 27

February 27, 2008
By Michael Cader

More Free Book Fever: Now BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN Charles Bock’s debut novel BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN is being offered as a free PDF download via www.beautifulchildren.net/read, starting last night and running through midnight this Friday. (Sharing, emailing and printing are all allowed.) The free file is also available online via Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, Powells.com and Northshire.com. Bock […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, February 26

February 26, 2008
By Michael Cader

Sales and Profits Slide at S&S Sales fell four percent in the fourth quarter at Simon & Schuster to $252.5 million as operating income dropped 26 percent to $27 million. The company says “best-selling titles… did not match contributions from prior year titles.” while the profit drop is attributed to “the decline in revenues and […]

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Lunch for Monday, February 25

February 25, 2008
By Michael Cader

RH Buys Monacelli This morning Random House announced the acquisition earlier this month of visual arts book publisher The Monacelli Press. Founded in 1994, Monacelli has published over 250 books on architecture, the fine arts, interior design, landscape architecture, photography, and graphic design. Monacelli will be an independent imprint within Random House, separate from the […]

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Lunch Weekly for Monday, February 25

February 24, 2008
By Michael Cader

Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time […]

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