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People, Etc.: Macmillan’s New Children’s Publishing Venture in China

August 20, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Macmillan and 21st Century Publishing House have joined forces on a new children’s publishing venture in China, Macmillan Century Consulting & Service Company Ltd. The new venture will acquire, develop, introduce and promote children’s titles sourced from Macmillan’s publishing companies and imprints around the world, and will be led by 21st Century Publishing president Zhang Qiulin and Macmillan managing director for Greater China Charlotte Liu.

“We believe Macmillan Century is in a unique position at the outset, as it has the advantage of combining Macmillan’s carefully selected children’s classics and bestsellers with 21st Century’s strong distribution channels within the Chinese children’s book market,” Liu said in the announcement. Quilin added: “For 21st Century, this venture represents a valuable opportunity to broaden our knowledge of international publishing operations through our cooperation with The Macmillan Group.”

At Fodor’s, Siobhan O’Hare has been promoted to director, content management and publishing technology. In her new role, effective September 10, O’Hare will oversee the tools and process for editing and publishing Fodor’s content across all channels.

Updating Friday’s announcement by Amazon that THE HUNGER GAMES was the bestselling series of all time on the company’s US website, a spokesperson noted to us this figure only includes paid sales and ” does not take into account borrows from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.” In addition, according to Digital Book World, Kindle book sales of the trilogy outsold print editions by a factor of 3.7:1.

Tor announced last week that Harry Harrison, who died last Wednesday, had delivered the manuscript to his memoirs two weeks previously and the company “hope to publish in December.”

Filed Under: Authors, eNews, Free, International News, Personnel, Sales

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