Publishing Speigel & Grau make some news By Carmen on Mar. 24, 2006 - 10:52 AM Remember back in November when former Riverhead publishers Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau shocked the publishing world by jumping to Doubleday Broadway to start their own imprint? Well time passed, and things got quiet as they set t ...
Publishing Scholastic’s slow third quarter By Carmen on Mar. 24, 2006 - 9:09 AM One would have thought that having Harry Potter in its midst would automatically boost a publisher’s fortune. But in the case of Scholastic, it’s just not so: though the company’s year-to-date revenues increased ...
Publishing Turkish Delight on a Moonlit Night By Neal on Mar. 24, 2006 - 9:00 AM Jenny White (center) flanked by Norton editor Amy Cherry and publicist Erin Sinesky at last night’s reception at the Turkish Center, across the street from the UN Building, in honor of the publication of White’s first ...
Book Biz On the Road Again By Neal on Mar. 24, 2006 - 8:55 AM Sarah’s just back, and I’m out the door again—off to the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, where I’ll be taking part in three panels in two days. In addition to doing my best to help David K ...
Book Biz Game of Lawsuits By Carmen on Mar. 24, 2006 - 8:45 AM Has any book excerpt garnered as much fanfare as when Sports Illustrated ran a piece of GAME OF SHADOWS, the upcoming expose on Barry Bonds and drugs in baseball? Well now that the book’s about to be published in its entiret ...
Authors Fear of Aging By Carmen on Mar. 24, 2006 - 8:39 AM Though Erica Jong’s new memoir SEDUCING THE DEMON is getting much attention for its description of her one-night stand with Martha Stewart’s ex-husband Andy (at the Frankfurt Book Fair!) she has bigger fish to fry, as ...
Bookselling Libraries attempt to keep up with retailers By Carmen on Mar. 24, 2006 - 8:23 AM The Dewey Decimal System is so 1950s, but many public libraries — free internet access notwithstanding — are still stuck in that time warp. But as the Boston Globe’s Catherine Elton reports, some of them are tryi ...
Book Biz Foodie Shows Jenna Jameson How It’s Done By Neal on Mar. 24, 2006 - 8:00 AM A few months ago, I mentioned Gael Greene’s upcoming memoir, jampacked with celebrity sex. Well, as James Brady tells it in Forbes, apparently Insatiable has plenty of sex scenes with A-list haute cuisine icons as well. So m ...
Book Biz Late Morning Odds and Ends By Neal on Mar. 23, 2006 - 11:41 AM Seattle Times reporter Florangela Davila discovers the manga fans flocking to Kinokuniya, a chain of Japanese bookstores where many Americans have been picking up both translated and untranslated comic books. (There’s one he ...
Publishing Is Bertelsmann on shaky ground? By Carmen on Mar. 23, 2006 - 9:17 AM Even though the giant media conglomerate that owns Random House announced a 13% increase in profits in the 2005 fiscal year, the news wasn’t enough to decrease speculation about whether the company will find itself up to pub ...