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Publishing Jobs: Random House, HarperCollins, Rodale

This week, Random House is hiring a new editor, while HarperCollins is looking for a rights coordinator. Rodale is seeking a publicist, and Hachette Book Group is hiring a publicist, too. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additi...

BookExpo America Galley Guides

What book are you most excited about this year? Over at Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert has published her annual “BEA Galley & Signing Guide.” The handy resource will help you make sure you can find all the galley copies and authors yo...

Rebecca Skloot & Constance Hale Join Mediabistro Literary Festival

Want to finish your book this summer? From July 16 through August 1, 2012, Mediabistro will host its first Literary Festival & Workshops. Among our long list of guests, Rebecca Skloot (pictured) will share some Unconventional Publicity tips and Con...

‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Trilogy Sells 10 Million Copies in 6 Weeks

Vintage has sold a combined total of ten million trade paperback, eBook and audiobook copies of E.L. James‘ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy in the last six weeks. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group president Anthony Chirico had this statement: “...

John Oakes Urges Publishers to Sell eBooks Directly

John Oakes, the co-founder of OR Books, has written an opinion piece for Publisher’s Weekly, encouraging publishers to free themselves from the traditional print book supply chain (as well as from the shackles of Amazon) by selling eBooks directl...

Carol Burnett to Publish a Book about Her Daughter

Actress and author Carol Burnett has landed a book deal with Simon & Schuster to publish Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story. The memoir will explore her “relationship with her daughter Carrie Hamilton, an actress and writer who died ...

Philip K. Dick Total Recall eBook Coming

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired the eBook rights to “We Can Remember it For You Wholesale,” the short story by the late Philip K. Dick that inspired the Total Recall movie in 1990 and an upcoming remake (trailer embedded above). The Wylie ...

Self-Published Nutritionist Inks 7-Figure Book Deal

British nutritionist Venice A. Fulton has scored a 7-figure book deal with Grand Central Publishing for his diet book Six Weeks to OMG. The book first hit the scene as a self-published work. In the book, Fulton shares his diet tricks, which he has use...

Orange to End Sponsorship of Prize for Fiction

Orange Prize for Fiction co-founder Kate Mosse revealed today that the mobile phone company Orange will end its sponsorship of the U.K. literary award that bears its name. The Prize for Fiction carries a £30,000 award, and winners receive a bronze fig...

Researcher Suggests Ratings System for YA Books

Should there be a ratings system for young adult books? Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne studied the 40 YA books that topped the New York Times bestseller list in the summer of 2008, identifying 1,500 “profane words” in the bo...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Files for Bankruptcy

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has officially filed a major restructuring plan to redistribute the company’s $3.1 billion in debt, entering what they called “a prompt, court-supervised, chapter 11 process.” The company predicts they will emerge from...

Hachette To Test eBook Pilot Program At Libraries

After pulling its new eBook titles from libraries back in 2010, the Hachette Book Group is testing a pilot program to offer new eBooks in libraries this spring. Hachette currently offers backlist eBook titles for check out in libraries, but not new tit...

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