Amazon released its list of the bestselling books of 2012 on Friday morning. The list is a great summary of one of the key themes in book publishing in 2012: Self-published authors and traditional publishers need each other.…
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Hunger Games beats Harry Potter to become Amazon’s bestselling U.S. series
Amazon announced that "The Hunger Games" is now its bestselling series in the United States, beating Harry Potter. Publisher Scholastic said last month that the trilogy has sold over 50 million copies in the United States since its publication in 2008.…
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Just about a year after it hired publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum to launch a New York-based imprint, Amazon is announcing a new high-profile hire: Sara Nelson, the former books editor for Oprah's "O" magazine and, before that, editor-in-chief of trade mag "Publishers Weekly."…
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