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Archives for February 2009

February 24, 2009By Michael Cader

Vintage Broadens Spanish-Language Publishing

February 24, 2009By Michael Cader

Vintage Español has announced a significant expansion through a co-publishing agreement with their parent company’s co-venture Random House Mondadori. Starting this fall, Vintage will reissue approximately 50 of RH Mondadori’s bestselling backlist titles, including all of the Spanish-language editions of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s work, along with works by such authors as Pablo Neruda, Federico García Lorca, Ken Follett, John Grisham, Cormac McCarthy, and Mary Higgins Clark. Vintage will also publish 15 new frontlist titles in Spanish (mostly in paperback) annually as part of the initiative. The program is being directed by Vintage Espanol publishing director Milena Alberti and overseen by […]

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February 24, 2009By Michael Cader

Starbucks to Feature Actress's Memoir

February 24, 2009By Michael Cader

Actress Isabel Gillies’s HAPPENS EVERY DAY: An All-Too-True Story, will be the next book featured in 7,000 Starbucks locations across the US. Known for playing Detective Stabler’s wife on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Gillies memoir is about “coming to terms with the collapse of her marriage.’ Starbucks will carry the book as of March 24, Scribner’s publication date. Thus far, after seven titles so far, the “Starbucks effect” remains vague. The coffee chain certainly sells plenty of copies through it own outlets, but that does not always correlate to broader trade sales. Their most successful “discovery” was clearly […]

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February 23, 2009By Michael Macrone

Lunch Weekly for Monday, February 23

February 23, 2009By Michael Macrone

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 to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up   FICTION Debut Liza Campbell’s MEASURE ME AGAINST THE SKY, in which a young […]

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February 23, 2009By Michael Cader

Condit Ready to Tell His Story

February 23, 2009By Michael Cader

The confirmation of the possible pending arrest of Ingmar Guandique–already in federal custody in California–for the murder of Congressional intern Chandra Levy eight years ago has put former California congressman Gary Condit back in the news. And agent Rachelle Gardner at WordServe Literary (rachelle@wordserveliterary.com) is submitting a book proposal by Condit to publishers this week. According to Gardner, Condit promises to reveal “the reason he has stayed silent and never spoken out on his own behalf in eight years” and to detail “what really happened between himself and Ms. Levy” (he previously admitted having a relationship with her). He also […]

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February 23, 2009By Michael Cader

Announcements

February 23, 2009By Michael Cader

Encounter Books will move sales and distribution from NBN to Perseus Distribution as of August 1. Publisher Roger Kimball notes in the announcement, “Encounter has been seeking to raise its profile and discover effective new avenues to bring its wares to a broader audience…. Their combination of enthusiasm and pragmatism is as refreshing as it is rare.” Simon & Schuster has launched a 365 Crosswords puzzle app on the Apple App Store, selling for $4.99. Penguin’s new “especial” on sale tomorrow is Nalini Singh’s novella ANGELS’ PAWN (angels and vampires together in one package), a prequel to her new Guild […]

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February 23, 2009By Michael Cader

Immigration Audit Affects BN's Reno Warehouse

February 23, 2009By Michael Cader

Approximately 50 Hispanic employees say they were fired from Barnes & Noble’s Reno, NV distribution center after a routine federal immigration audit found they did not have the required paperwork on file. The employees were told to report to the Reno Immigration and Customs Enforcement office with proper documentation by Friday, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports. But BN spokesperson Mary Ellen Keating tells the paper in a separate piece “those people have not been fired.” They add: “she said Thursday that some employees have provided the required documentation to ICE officials and are back at work but declined to say how […]

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