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6:44AM Tuesday 7th September 2010
Quercus is to enter the fiction market in the US and Canada next year via a joint venture with Sterling Publishing, a subsidiary of bookseller Barnes & Noble.
Quercus has agreed an initial three year deal with Sterling to publish fiction via a new imprint named "Silver Oak". The new business, which will be owned 50:50 by Quercus and Sterling, will publish books selected by Quercus from its list of fiction titles. Currently, Quercus publishes approximately 80 new fiction titles annually. The Silver Oak imprint will be marketed by Sterling throughout the entire North American market, including Barnes & Noble's retail bookstores and online subsidiary, bn.com. Silver Oak will launch in January 2011 with the publication of Three Seconds, by Swedish authors Roslund and Hellström. Written by a journalist and an ex-criminal, the book was recently named Swedish Crime Novel of the Year.
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