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Archives for November 2014

People, Etc.

November 30, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

Obituaries Novelist Kent Haruf, 71, has died, his editor Gary Fisketjon confirmed to the Washington Post on Sunday. The new issue of Granta has an autobiographical essay by Haruf, and his novel OUR SOULS AT NIGHT is due to be published next year. Fisketjon said,  “Kent had finished all his revisions and even gone through the copy […]

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Green Wednesday?

November 26, 2014
By Michael Cader

It’s more like Wet Wednesday here on the East coast, but we’re getting in the seasonal spirit: So for today (Green Wednesday, or Wet Wednesday), tomorrow (Thanksgiving Thursday), Black Friday, and Small Business Saturday, or November 26 through November 29, we’re offering a short free trial period at PublishersMarketplace.com for those who want to take […]

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Authors In the News: Bookselling Authors, Picoult, MacArthur Fellow McHugh, and More

November 26, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

The American Booksellers Association says that over 400 independent bookstores will host authors who have volunteered to work alongside booksellers as part of the Indies First initiative this Saturday — which is the American Express-promoted Small Business Saturday. The ABA reports that more than 1,200 authors have enrolled in the various year-round initiatives that are […]

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Sales Uptick As Losses Flatten in Books-A-Million Third Quarter

November 25, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

Books-A-Million said sales for the third quarter ending November 1 increased slightly from the previous year, up 1.2 percent to $101.2 million. Same-store sales inched up an equivalent amount, 1.8 percent, while their net loss of $6.9 million, or 50 cents per share was almost exactly the same amount lost in last year’s third quarter. […]

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People, Etc.

November 24, 2014
By Michael Cader

Shawna Mullen will join Abrams as associate publisher, adult trade on December 15, reporting to Michael Sand. Previously she was executive editor at Taunton Press and before then, editorial director at Clarkson Potter, where she helped launch the Potter Craft imprint. PEN announced a new PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize to support an unpublished manuscript that “addresses a […]

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Corporate: In-Flight eBooks on JetBlue; BN Commissions 500,000 Signed Books For Holidays; Perseus Year-End View

November 24, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

JetBlue’s has launched their “Fly-Fi” content platform, currently available on about 35 percent of all flights as part of their rollout of inflight wi-fi, offering free content, including excerpts of more than 20 ebooks from HarperCollins, their “exclusive book content partner” at launch. Penguin Random House will join the program in the first quarter of 2015. The […]

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