Publishers
| Raincoast closing publishing business | |
| News > Publishers | January 9, 2008 |
| Canadian publisher and distributor Raincoast Books, which worked on the Harry Potter series, is shuttering its publishing operations... | |
| Baen Books now putting their logo on more than just books | |
| News > Publishers | January 3, 2008 |
| Baen Books has opened a Café Press store for their fans, with three different Baen logos on all sorts of things... | |
| Orbit Books to Sponsor Aurealis Awards | |
| News > Awards | December 24, 2007 |
| Little, Brown's sf imprint Orbit is sponsoring the Australian Aurealis Awards, supporting the local speculative fiction... | |
| Norilana doing well and expanding | |
| News > Publishers | December 18, 2007 |
| Norilana Books has announced the formation of a new imprint for fantasy, and successful sales requiring them to pay royalties... | |
| Hachette Audio becoming Digital | |
| News > Publishers | December 7, 2007 |
| Hachette Audio is changing its name to Hachette Digital, and merging in e-books and digital strategy with the division... | |
| Juno Books publishes more, reprints, and has a new contest | |
| News > Publishers | December 6, 2007 |
| Juno Books announces the publication of their 17th and 18th titles of the year, the fact that they're going back to press on two others, and that they're running a new contest... | |
| Pyr's "street team" reviews a pretty good year | |
| News > Activities | December 6, 2007 |
| One of Pyr's "street team" members reviews the year, and it's been a pretty good one. Then she announces a book give-away... | |
| Bantam Dell opens an island in Second Life | |
| News > Publishers | November 29, 2007 |
| Bantam Dell has its own Second Life island, where they host chats, podcasts, interviews, trivia nights, and all manner of virtual bookish things... | |
| Anime-focused theatre to open in San Francisco | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | November 28, 2007 |
| VIZ Pictures, the US distributor of much Japanese anime and live-action films, is opening its own art-house movie theatre... | |
| Del Rey signs to distribute Dabel Brothers' graphic novels | |
| News > Bookselling | November 16, 2007 |
| Del Rey has agreed to give Dabel Brothers' graphic novels much wider distribution... | |
| Jeff VanderMeer's Ministry of Whimsy Press to be revived | |
| News > Publishers | October 18, 2007 |
| Jeff VanderMeer will be reviving his Ministry of Whimsy Press as an imprint of Neil Clarke's Wyrm Publishing. The planned first projects include... | |
| Disney Publishing Worldwide moves to White Plains | |
| News > Publishers | October 17, 2007 |
| Disney Publishing Worldwide, the umbrella for Disney's children's publishing, is moving most all of its operations to a new office in White Plains, New York, vacating space in lower Manhattan... | |
| Pan Macmillan buys Kingfisher from Houghton Mifflin | |
| News > Publishers | October 1, 2007 |
| Houghton Mifflin sold children's book publisher Kingfisher, which publishes fiction and non-fiction, to the UK's Pan Macmillan. In the US, it will be run by... | |
| Baen Books to epublish Subterranean titles | |
| News > Publishers | September 25, 2007 |
| Baen Books will be offering Subterranean Press titles as ebooks through the former's webscriptions program... | |
| Small Beer Press Moves | |
| News > Publishers | September 21, 2007 |
| Small Beer Press has moved to a new office. Their new address is... | |
| Potter Profits Do Magical Things for Scholastic | |
| News > Publishers | September 21, 2007 |
| Sales of the Harry Potter series, specifically the last book, Deathly Hallows, resulted in a magical quarter for publisher Scholastic... | |
| BOOM! Studios sale in honor of "Talk Like a Pirate Day" | |
| News > Publishers | September 19, 2007 |
| In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, BOOM! Studios is having a sale on Pirate Tales, and because they've decided there's a connection, Ninja Tales... | |
| PS Publishing announces more than 50 titles | |
| News > Publishers | September 18, 2007 |
| PS Publishing has announced its list of forthcoming titles through the end of 2008. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Jose Farmer... | |
| Fire at Prometheus Books brings down Pyr web site | |
| News > Publishers | September 6, 2007 |
| An electrical fire at Prometheus Books forced evacuation of the building (there were no injuries), and brought down the Prometheus and Pyr web sites... | |
| Juno Books' new publication schedule | |
| News > Publishers | August 28, 2007 |
| Juno Books, which publishes "fantasy with a focus on the female," has just updated its schedule through the end of 2008. This schedule reflects their newest venture: publishing mass market paperbacks. The new schedule is: The Eternal Rose by Gail... | |
| Tor Books Podcasts to Debut during WorldCon | |
| News > Performances & Podcasts | August 22, 2007 |
| Tor Books will begin producing podcasts during WorldCon. The shows from Japan will be hosted by Tom Doherty and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and available for downloading... | |
| Harlan Ellison / Fantagraphics Settlement Publicly Available | |
| News > Publishers | August 17, 2007 |
| The full 15-page text of the settlement between Harlan Ellison and Fantagraphics is now available on the latter's web site. The key provisions of the agreement are... | |
| Sourcebooks new romance lines to include paranormal, fantasy, science fiction | |
| News > Publishers | August 17, 2007 |
| Sourcebooks will be introducing their first fiction titles this September, with a paranormal romance called Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, about a ghost and... | |
| More on Weekly World News closing | |
| News > Magazines | July 22, 2007 |
| Bob Greenberger, an editor with Weekly World News, has published some more color on the announcement that the publication is being closed... | |
| Weekly World News Shutting Down | |
| News > Magazines | July 21, 2007 |
| The supermarket tabloid (and web site) Weekly World News is being shut down by owner American Media. No reason was given, although there were offers... | |
