Barnes & Noble's Sterling Adds Nonfiction Imprint
Sterling Publishing, a subsidiary of the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain, recently announced the launch of an imprint devoted exclusively to narrative nonfiction.
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Publisher Thomas Nelson to Eliminate Book Imprints
Christian publisher Thomas Nelson recently announced that it will eliminate all of its twenty-one imprints and publish books solely under the Thomas Nelson name and logo.
Perseus Books Group Plans Layoffs in 2007
Perseus Books Group recently announced that approximately thirty employees of the recently acquired Consortium Books Sales and Distribution will be laid off in March 2007.
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Dalkey Archive Will Still Move (but Not Very Far)
Dalkey Archive Press has finally found a new home. Less than a month after the twenty-two-year-old nonprofit publisher abandoned its plans to move from its current location at Ilinois State University to the University of Rochester, Dalkey Archive announced on December 1 that it is moving to the University of Illinois...
Irish Software Publisher Acquires Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin, the Boston-based publisher of books by Jhumpa Lahiri
and Philip Roth, as well as the "Best American" series of anthologies,
was recently acquired by the Irish educational software company
Riverdeep Holdings.
PBS to Air Documentary of L.A. Writer John Fante
On December 12 Independent Lens, a weekly program on PBS, will air a documentary of the late novelist John Fante.
Twenty-six-year-old Wins Bad Sex in Fiction Award
Iain Hollingshead, a twenty-six-year-old British novelist, has won the fourteenth annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his novel Twenty Something: The Quarter-Life Crisis of Jack Lancaster (Duckworth, 2006).
Mailer Wins Posthumous Award for Bad Sex in Fiction
The late Norman Mailer was awarded yesterday the fifteenth annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a passage in his last novel The Castle in the Forest (Random House, 2007). The award was established in 1993 by the London magazine the Literary Review "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it."
Philip K. Dick to Be Canonized by the Library Of America
The Library of America, the nonprofit publisher founded in 1979 to "preserve our nation's literary heritage," plans to publish a volume of four novels by cult writer Philip K. Dick next summer.
Indie Publisher Fence Books Joins National Poetry Series
Rebecca Wolff, the founding editor of the literary magazine Fence and the independent press Fence Books, announced yesterday that Fence Books has entered into an agreement with the National Poetry Series (NPS) as a participating publisher.
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