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Community Supports Hachette v. Amazon UK
Agents are supporting Hachette Livre UK's confrontation with Amazon. Curtis Brown managing director Jonathan Lloyd says: "I think the entire industry of publishers, authors and agents are 100% behind [Hachette]. Someone has to draw a line in the sand. Publishers have given 1% a year away to retailers, so where does it stop? Using authors as a financial football is disgraceful."
 
Clare Alexander of Aitken Alexander adds: "This is a disturbing glimpse of the iron in Amazon's soul. I think its ruthlessness in bargaining is extremely disturbing." And a rival notes, "Publishers are thinking, 'Thank God it's Tim and not me.'"
 
On his clients behalf, though, Lloyd notes, "What I'm saying to Hachette is, 'I understand and support the principle, but with the books that have been delisted on Amazon, you've got to sell more to other online retailers."
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Hamish to Canada
Penguin Canada will launch Hamish Hamilton Canada as a new literary fiction imprint in March 2009. They say the line will "maintain a deep commitment to literary value, embracing both young and old, the experimental and the new, and continuing to be selective with a list of five to ten titles per year." Nicole Winstanley is in charge of the line. Simon Prosser, publisher of Hamish Hamilton in the UK, says, "I much look forward to closer connections with the vibrant Canadian writing scene and to sharing more Canadian writers with our colleagues.

Personnel News
Richard Rhorer is taking on the new position of director of digital business development for Macmillan. He has been director of marketing for the Henry Holt and Company adult imprints for the past five years.
 
In Scholastic's trade publishing division, Arthur A. Levine has been named publisher of his imprint Arthur A. Levine Books (he was editorial director).

Farewell to Jay's
Jay's Book Stall in Pittsburgh is about to close as owner Jay Dantry approaches 80 and is ready "to go home, read and take it easy." The store was successful to the end of the ts 49-year-run, as the local paper notes: "Despite the emergence of the bookstore chains, the Internet and the success of Amazon -- all factors in the shrinking of the independent bookstore -- the Book Stall didn't lack for customers."
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More New Jobs
We added 7 more new jobs to our industry-leading Job Board just yesterday, the latest among well over 100 listings in all still live from the past month.
 
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Production Editor  [Full Time]
St. Martin's Press (New York, NY)
 
Managing Editor/Production Manager  [Part Time, permanent]
Unbridled Books (na)
 
Publicity Associate  [Full Time]
Berghahn Books (New York, NY)
 
Editor  [Full Time]
HarperCollins Children's Books (New York, NY)
 
Administrative Assistant, Subsidiary Rights  [Full Time]
HarperCollins Children's Books (New York, NY)
 
Executive Editor, Templeton Foundation Press  [Full Time]
Templeton Foundation Press (West Conshohocken, PA)
 
Marketing Manager  [Full Time]
Hachette Filipacchi Media, U.S. (New York, NY)
 
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