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Dorchester author Angie Fox reclaims book rights to self publish
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Angie Fox may be the first Dorchester author since the company's shift to e-publishing to reclaim the rights to her book and self-publish it...

Norilana Anthologies Postponed
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Bad times for small press anthologies force the delay of four from Norilana, and the move of a fifth to another editor's line...

SRM Publisher slow-down
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Owing to Steve Miller's recent hospitalization (now concluded), he and Sharon Lee's annual Yule chapbook has been delayed, and orders to their SRM Publisher are also being delayed...

PS Publishing launching new website by giving away hundreds of books
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PS Publishing is revamping and relaunching its web site on Hallowe'en, and to celebrate the relaunch, they're giving away several hundred books over the next week...

Hard Case Crime moving to new home
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Hard Case Crime, which published Stephen King's The Colorado Kid (basis for the tv series Haven) was caught up in Dorchester's sudden withdrawal from paperback publishing. Now it will be revived under Titan Books...

Apex Books' one-title-per-day pre-Halloween sale
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Apex Book Company is offering 40% off on one title each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, leading up to Halloween...

ChiZine Publications cutting e-book prices in sales experiment
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In an attempt to gauge the elasticity of the e-book market, ChiZine Publications is cutting the price of Douglas Smith's collection Chimerascope by 50%...

Hammer Films relaunches, and Random House gives them a new imprint
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Classic horror film producer Hammer Films returns after a 30-year hiatus, and launches a publishing imprint through Random House's Arrow Books to join the new line of films and other productions...

Orbit eBooks announces "The Orbital Drop"
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Orbit, which is now publishing nearly all its titles in simultaneous print and ebook editions, is now offering a special announcement list for their ebook readers...

Top Shelf Productions' $3 and $1 comic sale runs one more week
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Top Shelf Productions is having a massive sale, marking down many of their titles, through next Friday...

Ian Randal Strock buys Fantastic Books
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Ian Randal Strock, who has been publishing the Wilder Publications imprint Fantastic Books for the past several months, is buying the line from founder Warren Lapine...

HarperCollins merging its US, UK, and A/NZ sf lines into one global imprint
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The US's Eos science fiction line is losing its name in favor of the newly rebranded Harper Voyager, which will combine the US branch with the UK and Australia/New Zealand Voyager lines...

Is the "shift to e-book publishing" a death knell for Dorchester?
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Dorchester Publishing, which recently announced it was switching from mass market to e-book publishing, has just laid off editorial director Leah Hultenschmidt and senior editor Don D'Auria...

Asylum Press signs distribution deal with SCB Distributors
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Graphic novel publisher Asylum Press is entering the standard book trade through its distribution deal with SCB Distributors...

PS Publishing offering Cemetery Dance titles in the UK/Europe
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PS Publishing is now offering Cemetery Dance titles in the UK and Europe, to save customers the high cost of shipping from North America. The first titles available include...

DC's Zudacomics.com is closing
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
DC Comics is shutting down its online publishing/competition/submission portal Zudacomics.com, and folding its activities into their newer initiatives...

E-book publisher Futures-Past now offering some titles in print
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Speculative fiction e-book publisher Futures-Past Editions is moving into the print market, with their first four trade paperbacks available on 15 July, including...

For The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, publisher Nonstop seeks unpublished story sold at Wiscon
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The manuscript for an early, unpublished Carol Emshwiller story sold at Wiscon's James Tiptree Jr. Award auction in May. Nonstop Press will be publishing The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, and publisher Luis Ortiz is looking for...

Night Shade Books launching Pugilist Press
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Night Shade Books is launching Pugilist Press, a new imprint focusing on contemporary literary fiction with an edge, edited by Juliet Ulman...

Viz Media makes massive personnal cuts
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US manga publisher Viz Media has laid off up to 60 people, but doesn't expect any changes to their publishing schedule or business lines...

Quirk to be distributed by Random House
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Starting next year, Random House will be the distributor for Quirk Books, made famous by their zombie mash-ups...

Angry Robot Books leaving the HarperCollins umbrella
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After a year as an imprint of HarperCollins UK, sf imprint Angry Robot Books is moving out on its own, with backing from Osprey Publishing...

Orbit Books offers to e-publish short fiction by its book authors
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Orbit Books will electronically offer short fiction by its book authors...

Marvel shifts its book distribution to Hachette
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Marvel Comics' books will be distributed by Hachette Book Group starting in September, taking a significant chunk of business away from Diamond Comic Distributors. Diamond will keep Marvel's traditional comic books...

Random House merging several former paperback publishers and sf imprints
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Random House's new BBD Unit will bring together Ballantine, Bantam, Del Rey/Spectra, Delacorte, Dell, ESPN Books, One World, Presidio, and Villard under the aegis of Libby McGuire...
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