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S&S to distribute Skyhorse; Investment group acquires stake in B&N; Promotions and new hires at PRH, Random House, Ingram, Atria; 2018 Man Booker longlist announced; 2018 New England Book Awards, RITA Awards, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Chosen Payments contest winners announced

New CBC diversity award plans fall launch; Noodlephant illustrator pens blog post on Ci6; Amazon Prime Day encounters problems; Casemate to distribute Gremese Editore; Rowman & Littlefield acquires Pineapple Press; HMH to close Eamon Dolan Books; CEO to leave Bonnier Zaffre; Promotions at HC Children’s Books; Quarto appoints Andy Cumming; Penny Candy Books visiting indies; Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award winner, Pinckley Prizes for Fiction winners announced

BookCon opens ticket sales; J.K. Rowling’s Harvard speech to go to print in 2015; Arizona anti-nudity law on hold; BA’s Tim Godfray honored; Brian Murray named PW Person of the Year

Penguin Random House to launch #GiveaBook campaign; Patriot Act reform falls short; Lennertz starts ExpressEdit.net; SIBA receives $40,000 grant; Ingram Publisher Services adds three clients; U.K. Books Are My Bag campaign boosts sales

Richard Flanagan wins Man Booker Prize for Fiction; First Amendment groups challenge Idaho school’s parental consent form; Eric Schwartz joins Columbia University Press as editorial director

France’s Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Prize for Literature; Mary Rasenberger named Authors Guild executive director; Policy research institute says Amazon should collect sales tax in Ohio; Free speech groups caution Waukesha School Board; Ingram Content Group opens POD facility in California; Winners of European Union Prize for Literature announced at Frankfurt

Egmont USA for sale; Authors Guild seeks investigation into Amazon’s practices; Persepolis reinstated in Ball-Chatham classrooms; Kirkus announces finalists for 2014 prize; John Kenney wins Thurber Prize for American Humor; National Book Foundation names 5 Under 35

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