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Archives for September 2011

Two New Buys For Amazon New York

September 30, 2011
By Michael Cader

Deal-watchers will take particular note of two reported buys for Amazon’s budding New York-based publishing unit. Liao Yiwu, who escaped from China this summer, is moving to Amazon from Harper One, for his account of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, FOR A SONG AND A HUNDRED SONGS: A Poet’s Journey Through a Chinese Prison. Gregg […]

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Audible Lines Up Film Stars for Audiobooks; Hay House Launches Film/TV Divisions

September 30, 2011
By Michael Cader

Audible is going Hollywood, enlisting a number of accomplished actors–including Annette Bening, Colin Firth, Dustin Hoffman and Kate Winslet–to narrate a new line of audiobooks, featuring many classic works selected by the performers. Scheduled for release beginning in early 2012, the offerings include these pairings: Kim Basinger (The Awakening by Kate Chopin) Annette Bening (Mrs. […]

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People, Etc.

September 29, 2011
By Sarah Weinman

At Basic Books, editorial director since 2007 Lara Heimert has been promoted to editorial and publishing director. In her new role she will play a larger role in the presentation and publication of the imprint’s books while freeing Basic Book Group publisher John Sherer to concentrate on the new Perseus digital marketing initiatives and to […]

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Julian Assange WikiLeaks Canongate

September 29, 2011
By Michael Cader

It will come as no great surprise that Julian Assange has released correspondence with Canongate and purported transcripts of apparently-taped phone calls with Canongate publisher Jamie Byng. Though Canongate published the unauthorized draft in part due to admitted “financial imperative,” according to an email from Assange’s agent Caroline Michel, by going ahead with publication, Canongate […]

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Strong Start for O’Reilly’s Lincoln Book

September 29, 2011
By Michael Cader

Holt is celebrating strong first-day sales for Bill O’Reilly’s KILLING LINCOLN, a departure for the television host and his first book for the house, reuniting with his publisher from Random House, Steve Rubin. The publisher says the opening day sales alone were in excess of O’Reilly’s first-week sales on his last two hardcover releases, indicating […]

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New Kindles for UK and Germany

September 29, 2011
By Michael Cader

We kept refreshing and updating our Amazon story yesterday, so a couple of details were missing from certain editions. A UK version of the least expensive regular Kindle–the non-touchscreen model–is available for pre-order, for release on October 12, at £89 (or roughly $140). A German version is priced at 99 euros. Both are ad-free models. […]

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