Stern Measures Still On

This week’s announcement that Jared Paul Stern‘s gossip business tell-all was being shuttered, came as a surprise. The book, which was sold to Simon and Schuster division Touchstone Fireside, was supposed to have been published this fall. Touchstone EVP and Publisher Mark Gompertz told Gawker on Tuesday: “These things happen. He got busy with a lot of things, and so much time has elapsed since the events [that got him fired]. It was through no fault of anyone.”