Publishers
| Book View Cafe signs partnership agreements to distribute on phone and paper | |||
| News > Authors | December 10, 2008 | ||
 The 20-author cooperative Book View Cafe has signed partnership deals with PortableReading and AnthologyBuilder to bring their stories to cell phone and paper distribution...
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| BOOM! Studios Open Holiday Party | |||
| News > Other Stuff | December 9, 2008 | ||
 BOOM! Studios holiday party is open to all their fans and customersx, and will be at Meltdown Comics & Collectibles in Los Angeles on 17 December...
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| Simon & Schuster, too, makes big changes | |||
| News > Publishers | December 4, 2008 | ||
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Simon & Schuster is cutting 35 positions from all across the company; another victim of bad economic times...
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| Random House Shake Up | |||
| News > Publishers | December 4, 2008 | ||
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Senior executives Irwyn Applebaum and Steve Rubin are leaving Random House as the publishing groups they headed are being divided and moved under other groups within the colossal publishing house...
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| Circlet is offering an Erotic SF Advent Calendar | |||
| News > Short Fiction Sales | December 1, 2008 | ||
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Circlet Press is offering a different erotic sf/f story every day for the first 23 of December, their very own Erotic SF&F Advent Calendar. Each story will be available for one day only, starting with...
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| Houghton Mifflin calls a halt to acquisitions | |||
| News > Publishers | November 25, 2008 | ||
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Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has stopped acquiring manuscripts for a temporary, but undefined, length of time...
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| Apex Publications' Post-Halloween Raffle Extended | |||
| News > Publishers | November 17, 2008 | ||
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Apex Publications is raffling off an eclectic mix of stuff, with a portion of the proceeds going to Dolly's Imagination Library...
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| Topps is closing WizKids immediately | |||
| News > Publishers | November 12, 2008 | ||
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Topps, the owners of WizKids games, is shutting down the company immediately, to focus on its core businesses...
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| Pyr to move into mass market arena | |||
| News > Publishers | November 11, 2008 | ||
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Pyr, the sf imprint of Prometheus Books, is moving into the mass market arena in May, with the publication of Crossover...
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| Scholastic early retirement offer widely accepted | |||
| News > Publishers | November 10, 2008 | ||
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Looking to cut costs, Scholastic offered early retirement to many of its employees, and found more than they expected willing to take the deal...
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| Apex Publications' post-Halloween Raffle | |||
| News > Publishers | November 3, 2008 | ||
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Apex Publications is raffling off an eclectic mix of stuff, with a portion of the proceeds going to Dolly's Imagination Library...
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| Night Shade Books to be available electronically through Baen's Webscriptions | |||
| News > Publishers | October 31, 2008 | ||
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Night Shade Books is the newest small press publisher to sign on with Baen Books's Webscriptions to distribute their titles electronically...
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| Hachette creating new division to house sf/f and manga/graphic novels | |||
| News > Publishers | October 24, 2008 | ||
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Hachette is creating a new division, Orbit, to house the sf/f imprint Orbit and the manga/graphic novel imprint Yen Press. Under the direction of Orbit Publisher Tim Holman...
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| QueeredFiction to publish GLB sf/f/h; reading for anthology | |||
| News > Market Reports | October 22, 2008 | ||
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Start-up smal press QueeredFiction will focus on gay, lesbian, and bisexual science fiction, fantasy, and horror. They're currently reading for Queer Wolf...
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| LucasBooks and Del Rey renew licensing agreement through 2013 | |||
| News > Publishers | September 16, 2008 | ||
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LucasBooks and Del Rey have extended their 30+ year agreement for another five years, which should see the publication of 35 more novels...
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| Tor.com continues offering free fiction; plans to resume free e-books | |||
| News > Publishers | September 12, 2008 | ||
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Tor.com expects to resume giving away free e-books, but only to registered users. Currently, a free story by Elizabeth Bear is available, with a Terry Bisson story in the works...
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| HarperCollins UK hires Marc Gascoigne to launch new sf imprint | |||
| News > Publishers | September 12, 2008 | ||
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Angry Robot will launch in July 2009, produced sf and fantasy books on paper and electronically...
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| PS Publishing updates books schedule, Postscripts format | |||
| News > Magazines | August 29, 2008 | ||
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PS Publishing is considering increasing the size of quarterly magazine Postscripts and redesignating it an anthology...
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| Virgin Comics shutting down | |
| News > Publishers | August 27, 2008 |
| Publishers Weekly is reporting the closure of Virgin Comics' New York City office, and the possible shuttering of the entire two-year-old corporate venture... | |
| Simon & Schuster's children's ties itself more closely to Hollywood | |||
| News > Publishers | August 15, 2008 | ||
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Simon & Schuster's Children's Publishing signed an agreement with Hollywood's Gotham Group to more closely develop properties in both print and film forms, with the publisher profiting from film success...
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| Bertelsmann completes sale of book clubs to Najafi | |
| News > Publishers | August 13, 2008 |
| Private equity firm Najafi Companies has completed its purchase of the Bertelsmann Direct Group, including the book clubs... | |
| Circlet Press to publish erotic e-chapbooks | |||
| News > Publishers | August 7, 2008 | ||
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Publisher Cecilia Tan notes that Circlet's new line of erotic steampunk and erotic high fantasy will be anthologies of 3-6 stories, harkening back to the line's roots of publishing chapbooks...
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| L. Ron Hubbard's pulp fiction available as paper or audio | |||
| News > Books | August 6, 2008 | ||
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Galaxy Press will be publishing all of L. Ron Hubbard's pulp fiction as both paperback books and audiobooks (filling out the shorter books with short stories)...
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| WotC cancelling all non-Magic, non-D&D publishing | |
| News > Publishers | July 31, 2008 |
| Wizards of the Coast is canceling its new Discoveries publishing line, and "refocusing" their efforts on Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons... | |
| Charles Kochman to get comics imprint at Harry N. Abrams | |||
| News > Publishers | July 28, 2008 | ||
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Charles Kochman's new Abrams imprint, Abrams ComicArts, will specialize in comics and comic related books. The first four titles...
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