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Archives for July 2008

Chicago Keeps "One Book" Going

July 31, 2008
By Michael Cader

Chicago has selected Tom Wolfe’s THE RIGHT STUFF as their 15th citywide reading selection. The pick coincides with the 50th anniversary of both NASA and Chicago’s Air and Water Show.Sun-Times

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Chinese Printers Are Censoring Books for Export

July 31, 2008
By Michael Cader

Two Australian publishers report incidents of censorship by Chinese printers of their books. A printer company in Guangdong in southern China informed the UNSW Press after their book was printed that “Chinese authorities have found sentences within the text which infringe their sovereignty and have refused to grant an export authorization.” (There was a reference […]

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Book Country Returns to New York

July 31, 2008
By Michael Cader

The abandoned New York is Book Country has been resuscitated by Nielsen Business Media, as pointed out in this month’s Publishing Trends. To be held September 21 in Central Park (one week after the Brooklyn Book Festival, and one week before the National Book Festival in DC), the new version highlights books and authors but […]

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How About WOWIO 2.0?

July 31, 2008
By Michael Cader

Remember that goofy company that wanted to build a collection of free-access ebooks that wasted all that money a couple of BEA’s ago on an army of people in matching t-shirts chasing attendees on Segway scooters? Now entertainment company Platinum Studios (which says they control thousands of comic book characters) has bought the company and […]

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Personnel News and More

July 31, 2008
By Michael Cader

Sarah Melnyk has joined St. Martin‘s Minotau as a senior publicist.  She was previously at Harcourt. At Yale University Press, Jean Thomson Black has been promoted to executive editor.  She works in the areas of science, medicine, and technology. Distributor Consortium will offer free freight terms to trade accounts beginning August 1. With this change, […]

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S&S Falls Short

July 31, 2008
By Michael Cader

CBS reported sales at Simon & Schuster for the second quarter of $186 million, down 7 percent from a year ago. It’s the third straight quarterly decline for the publishing unit and once again the statement says that “bestselling titles…did not match contributions from prior year titles.” OIBDA and operating income decreased 15 percent to […]

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