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April
Macmillan announces launch of new Picador Africa imprint
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 April
Alice Sebold's The
Lovely Bones wins 'Richard and Judy Best Read Award' at the British Book Awards |
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March
 Pan Macmillan's
international sales team wins British Book Award |
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December
Macmillan launched a new
popular science imprint, Macmillan Science
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August
Macmillan South Africa added to its successful
list of acquisitions through the purchase of Guidelines, which
publishes study guides and exam books. |
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June
The Alliance for Cell Signalling (AFCS)/Nature Signalling Gateway ,
won the ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation. |
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April
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) entered a new
partnership with The Guardian newspaper in the UK to develop a new weekly
science supplement entitled ‘LIFE’ |
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March
 Pan Macmillan launched the imprint Tor UK,
a science fiction imprint |
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January
Macmillan Education launched The Macmillan
English Campus, an online learning environment for students of the English
language |
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In December,
Nature published the genetic sequence of the mouse for the first
time |
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In October
Exam.net, an online resource to assist A level students with exam
preparation, was launched in a collaboration between NPG and John Murray
Publishers |
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 Tim
Winton was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize a second time for his
acclaimed novel Dirt Music |
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 The
Princess Diaries 4: Mia Goes Fourth by Meg Cabot, published by
Macmillan Children's Books in September. Knocked
Harry Potter off the top spot to become the best-selling children’s
paperback in the UK. |
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 In
July, Nature published the ground-breaking ‘Old Man of Chad’ issue,
documenting the finding of the earliest known record of humanity |
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In March the Macmillan English
Dictionary was launched, selling 300,000 copies within the first 9 months
and winning the Duke of Edinburgh ESU Award for 2002 |
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In
February Macmillan Distribution (MDL) was short-listed for Vista Supply Chain Performer
of the Year Award |
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In
December Palgrave, Macmillan's global academic & scholoary
division, re branded Palgrave Macmillan
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In
November Macmillan had two books shortlisted for the
Whitbread First Novel Award: The Oversight by Will Eaves and Something
Like a House by Sid Smith, both published by Picador |
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In
July thriller author Richard North Patterson
moved to Macmillan from Random House in a substantial seven-figure, two-book
deal
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Picador author V
S Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming only the
eighth British writer to win this
award since its inception a hundred
years ago
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In
January the New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians released a second edition in print and online 21 years
after it was first published.
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Macmillan
re-acquired global rights to its name. |
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Emacmillan, the ebusiness division of Macmillan India, started full
operations in Bangalore in October
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(Feb) Macmillan Distribution (MDL) was Shortlisted for Supply Chain Performer of the Year. |
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December
Macmillan Education
acquired the educational publishing list of Ediciones Castillo in
Mexico. |
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June
 Palgrave
Macmillan’s Feminist Review won the ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Learned
Journals |
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June
 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) acquired the journal
Modern Pathology and
Laboratory Investigation from the United States and Canadian Academy of
pathology (USCAP). |
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April
Macmillan Education produced an online
version of the Macmillan English Dictionary |
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March
Palgrave Macmillan became Publisher of the Year
2003 |
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January
 NPG began publishing EMBO Reports from the
European Molecular Biology Organisation. |
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 Pan
Macmillan published A Prison Diary, the
first book by Jeffrey Archer since his transfer to Macmillan from
HarperCollins, in October |
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Palgrave Macmillan launched
SYBWorld, an online version of the Statesman’s Yearbook and a landmark reference site for the social
sciences |
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A new list of literary fiction for 12-15-year-olds, Young Picador, was
launched by Macmillan Children’s Books in the August |
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March saw the completion of the
first stage of the implementation of Palgrave Macmillan’s “Jigsaw”,
a state-of-the-art Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system,
developed for the company by industry leaders in the market |
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At the beginning of January, Macmillan Education Australia’s remedial literacy programme,
Fast Track Reading, was unanimously adopted by the Californian Department
of Education |
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 In
December the 76-year-old Macmillan Children's Books author Eva
Ibbotson won a gold award in the 2001 Smarties Book Prizes for Journey
to the River Sea |
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In
August
Macmillan’s new imprint, Campbell Baby, received three of the six nominations
for the Sainsbury's Baby Book Award |
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 Macmillan was
proud to have 3 titles shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson
Prize for Non Fiction; in June Michael Burleigh’s The Third Reich: A New History
went on to win the award |
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 On 15th February Nature
published a special edition of the journal mapping the human genome.
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Palgrave,
Macmillan's global academic publishing brand, went live on 1st September.The new division was created through the integration of
Macmillan Press and St Martin's Press Scholarly and Reference |
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NPG launched three
innovative review journals and a new journals and a new journal Nature
Immunology, and made its web resources available to institutions via site
licenses
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