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May 23, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch for Wednesday, May 23

May 23, 2007By Michael Cader

Amazon Buys Brilliance Amazon has acquired audiobook publisher Brilliance Audio from owners Michael Snodgrass, Eileen Hutton and a private equity group, for undisclosed terms. Brilliance will continue to run as an independent unit based in Michigan, under Snodgrass’s leadership. Amazon vp of books Greg Greeley says the purchase is part of “a three-pronged approach” to “expand audio selection to customers.” Brilliance has a catalog of over 1,000 audio titles and new releases of 20 to 40 titles a month, and Greeley says Amazon will be “giving them the support to produce a lot more titles than they have historically.” As […]

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May 22, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch for Tuesday, May 22

May 22, 2007By Michael Cader

S&S Replies Further to Guild Simon & Schuster is sending a letter to agents and authors that asserts the “Authors Guild has recently perpetrated serious misinformation” about changes in their contract language and criticizes the Guild for not “having undertaken any effort to have a dialogue.” They say that “contrary to the Authors Guild assertion, using technologies like print on demand is not about ‘squirreling away’ rights, nor does it mean that ‘no copies are available to be ordered by traditional bookstores.’ Print on demand is simply a means of manufacturing a book, making it widely available to retailers and […]

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May 21, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch for Monday, May 21

May 21, 2007By Michael Cader

New Name, Expanded Scope for Business Line Grand Central Publishing announced a new name this morning for the old Warner Business imprint — now to be known as Business Plus — and a new plan to extend the line to the UK. Executive editor Rick Wolff will continue to lead acquisitions in the US, and Headline editorial director David Wilson will oversee the new UK effort. (Headline has not previously had a dedicated business line.) Together they will “develop joint acquisition strategies, and [look] to acquire world rights when possible.” Another Internet Publishing Contest MediaPredict.com is working with Touchstone Fireside […]

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May 20, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch Weekly for Monday, May 21

May 20, 2007By Michael Cader

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 Kathleen McCleary’s HOUSE AND HOME, about a woman who loves her house […]

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May 18, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch for Friday, May 18

May 18, 2007By Michael Cader

Not the Lead Story You Expected Missed in the larger wave of publicity about Google’s rollout of their “universal search” initiative (more effectively blending multiple types of results — news, blogs, videos, images, books, maps, etc. — to a search query), the company also sort of announced what might or might not turn out to be a major change in the universe of information presented through Google Book Search. Google’s Book Search blog obliquely indicates the service now includes “millions of books that we know about but that aren’t yet online” but a press alert more clearly underscored that “Google […]

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May 17, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch for Thursday, May 17

May 17, 2007By Michael Cader

Oregon Voters Reject Library Levy Jackson County, OR voters turned down an $8.3 million tax increase designed to reopen their 15-branch library system by a 60-40 margin — about the same as a vote last November (prior to the actual closing of the libraries in early April.) The head of the Save the Libraries campaign “said he believes many residents voted against the levy not because they don’t support the libraries, but because they don’t support this method of funding them.” South Oregon Mail Tribune Proposed Denver Post writer Douglas Brown’s proposal for JUST DO IT, about his adventures having […]

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