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Harvard Common Press Sold to Quarto; Put Me In the Story Expands at BN; More From Basford

February 2, 2016
By Michael Cader

Quarto has completed their acquisition of The Harvard Common Press, as of February 1, adding hundreds of titles to their backlist along with over 25,000 recipes. HCP will become an imprint of Quarto, with editorial and production run out of Quarto’s office in Beverly, MA and editorial director Dan Rosenberg keeping the same role. Harvard Common Press president and publisher […]

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New and Noted: Princeton Brings Back Backlist, High-End Personal Publishing, Plus Grandinetti and Pietsch

July 14, 2014
By Michael Cader

The Princeton University Press is beginning the rollout of their Princeton Legacy Library this week, bring back out-of-print backlist in ebook and on-demand editions available through Ingram Content Group. Over 1,200 titles will be released this week, with the full program comprising over 3,000 titles for reissue in “batches” through 2016. Press director Peter J. Dougherty says […]

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Ingram Announces Broader Printing Program

May 24, 2013
By Michael Cader

Ingram has announced what they call “a comprehensive solution for publishers to manage the complete life cycle of print books,” under the banner LifePrint. The program lets publishers manage everything from print-on-demand and digital short-runs up through full offset runs from a master digital file, so they can “manufacture books in any quantity, from a […]

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eNews: Kobo Confirms Japan Launch; Amazon Brazil Tipped for Q4

July 2, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Firming up reports from June, Kobo has formalized their July launch dates in Japan: The Kobo Touch device is available for pre-order as of today with a full ebookstore, with more than 2.4 million ebooks plus additional Japanese-only content, ready by July 19 on parent company Rakuten’s website. The e-reader will be priced at 7,980 […]

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eNews: CreateSpace Allows Authors To Distribute Into Amazon Europe Sites For Free; Kobo Will Sell Harry Potter eBooks; and More

May 17, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Amazon’s print-on-demand service CreateSpace will now allow self-published authors to distribute their books into Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and the UK for free through the company’s websites in those countries. “We are very excited to offer our members the option to distribute their books on Amazon sites in Europe. By doing so, they will make […]

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eNews: Amazon Trumpets Kindle Owners Lending Library; Plagiarized Titles Plague Kindle Store; and More

January 12, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Amazon is delighted to declare “strong customer adoption” of the Kindle Owners Lending Library and oodles of money for participating Kindle Select (e.g. Kindle-exclusive) self-published authors. Interestingly, however, the extra money that Amazon claims participants received–“an incremental 26 percent in December”–is roughly equal to the proclaimed market share of No. 2 ebook player Nook, where […]

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