Texere may be the Latin word meaning “to weave,” but it is also the name of an international publisher specializing in books on business, technology, and finance that launched in a public-relations frenzy less than two years ago. What happened to the company whose self-stated mission is no less than to become “the most progressive…Continue Reading
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Tagged Absolut: Biography of a Bottle, Arthur Klebanoff, Bookstop, Fooled By Randomness, Gail Blackhall, Gary Hoover, Harry Schwartz, Hoover's Vision, Jack Covert, Lee Thompson, Myles Thompson, Nassim Taleb, Norton, Orion Business Books, Planned Television Arts, Real Options, Ruder-Finn, Sally Dedecker, Swiss Re, Texere, The Agent, Tom Copeland, Vladimir Antikarov, Wiley
Calendar Publishing Clocks Another Year. But Is There Life After ‘The Far Side’? The Far Side Off-the-Wall Calendar, Gary Larson’s page-a-day phenomenon that has been the number one selling boxed calendar for more than a decade, is history. “He decided that 17 years was enough,” says Michael Nonbello, VP for Andrews McMeel Publishing. “Larson wanted…Continue Reading
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Tagged American Greetings, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Anne Geddes, At-a-Glance, Barnes & Noble, Borders, BrownTrout, Calendar Club, Charles Miers, Chess Press, Chiquita, Date Works, Day by Day, Far Side Off-the-Wall Calendar, Gary Larson, HarperCollins, HarperEntertainment, Harry Potter, Hyperion, John Lash, Lisa Gulick, Michael Nonbello, Mike Brown, Mike Hejny, Motorbooks International, Penguin Putnam, Ricky Martin, Rizzoli, Simon & Schuster, Sunbelt PUblications, The Date Place, The New Girls of Maxim, Tom Dupree, Twentieth Century Fox, Universe, Workman
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT INSIDE.COM (8/15/01) Goodbye, pudding … hello, Jell-O. That’s what millions of children recited as the battle over packaging Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone for the American market flared a few years back. In the stateside edition, gelatin prevailed, while “crooked” morphed into “wonky,” school “holidays” became “vacations,” and “bobbles” were no…Continue Reading
Every publishing career follows a narrative arc. For some, it’s the Proustian ebb of Swann’s Way. For others, it’s Finnegans Wake. And the most gripping career stories tend to be those that jump out of the genre altogether. As conversations with a dozen book-world veterans show, life after publishing does exist, and what’s more, there’s…Continue Reading
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Tagged ABC News, Alpine Capital, American Museum of Natural History, Andrea Chambers, AOL, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, Audrey Cusson, B&N.com, Ballantine Books, Bob Wallace, Carol Publishing, Charlie Hayward, Conclave, Dell, Die Zeit, Forge Books, Golden Books, Greg Tobin, Harald Henrysson, Hasbro, Henry Holt, Holtzbrinck, James Lee Burke, Jeff Cuiule, Jussi Bjoorling Museum, Laura Matthews, Little Brown, Michael Eisenberg, Michael Lynton, Michael Naumann, Mirabai, Museum of Natural History, Myla Goldberg, Pat Mulcahy, Pearson, Penguin Putnam, Primedia, Putnam, Quincy Jones, RealRead, Ronni Stolzenberg, Rowohlt, S&S, Seton Hall, Seventeen, Seventh Avenue Books, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Steve Crist, Steven Schragis, Sue Flaster, Talk Magazine, The Cheyenne Group, The Daily Racing Form, The Learning Annex, Tillie's, Tom Doherty, Tom Simon, Willa Perlman
Ashcan Memories Mauvignier Talks Trash in France, Celery Stalks Italy, and Holland Peeps at Lost Souls The dustbin has popped open in France this month and rendered up Laurent Mauvignier’s elegiac second novel, Learning to Finish, which details the plight of a trash collector who announces he is leaving his wife — only to maim…Continue Reading
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Tagged Albin Michel, Alone Like a Celery Stalk, And Rising Slowly Into Immense Love, Anita Nair, Ceclia Dart-Thornton, Chiara Ferrari, Contact, Crown, Curtis Brown, Eichborn, Emanuela Canali, Far From Them, Fiona Inglis, Georges Borchardt, Irene Lindon, Katherine Pancol, Kiepenheuer, Kinneret, Ladies Coupe, Laura Grandi, Laurent Mauvignier, Learning to Finish, Luciana Littizzetto, Luciano de Crescenzo, Martha Millard, Minuit, Mondadori, Nancy Wake, Of This and That, Penguin, Peter FitzSimons, Prometej, Rimbaud, The Better Man, The Ill-Made Mute, The Last Boat, The Silence of Small Things, Vonne van der Meer, Warner, Wepler Prize
As the flashbulb-packed parties hosted by Condé Nast’s Steve Florio wind down — and the well-burnished résumés mound up — you know the summer’s publishing courses are drawing to a close. Amid the ritual job fairs and commencement speeches, PT checked in with the summer courses to see how this year’s crop of candidates is…Continue Reading
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Tagged Beverly Jane Loo, Book Sense, Carl Lennertz, Columbia Publishing Course, Condé Nast, Elizabeth Geiser, Holly Demeter, Lindy Hess, Megan Gleeson, NYU Center for Publishing, Peter Rubie, Radcliffe, Stanford Professional Publishing Course, Steve Florio, University of Denver, University of Virginia
Clearly, the students at the Columbia Publishing Course this year have lost nothing on their ultra-achieving predecessors in the move from Harvard to NYC. As in years past, we have compiled a composite biography of the terminally caffeinated graduate (achievements are from actual student biographies). Publishers may catch the buzz at Columbia’s Publishing Course career…Continue Reading
Spanish-publishing leaders from the book, magazine, and online sectors gathered at New York University’s Center for Publishing on June 26 for a day of digesting demographics and peering at new strategies to reach the sorely untapped Hispanic market in both English and Spanish. Things got off on a suitably controversial note as Mindy Figueroa, VP…Continue Reading
Pass the Chips and Dip, Y’all. Now Buy Some Southern Living Books. You may not see any hot-rodding pink Cadillacs when more than 1,000 salespeople descend upon Birmingham this month to attend the first national convention for Southern Living at Home, the newly minted home sales division of the Southern Living publishing group. Those automotive…Continue Reading
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Tagged AOL Time Warner, Avon, Barefoot, Books & Beyond, Cathy Adams, Cooking Light, Costco, Danny Gurr, Dianne Mooney, Direct Selling Association, Discovery Toys, Dorling Kindersley Family Learning, Educational Development Corporation, Gary Wright, Jenny Craig, Joe Mariano, Kingfisher, Leisure Arts, Longaberger, Martha Stewart Living, Mary Kay, Oxmoor House, Pampered Chef, Pearson, Randall White, Southern Living, Southern Living at Home, Southern Progress, St. Martin's, Steve Cohen, Sunset Magazine, Susan Schilling, Tupperware, Tyndale House, Usborne Publishing
What to say? Eloise gets larger and larger, and the blimp in her likeness lofting about the foyer of the Javits Center will probably be trundled out at the next Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. As for the rest of the Licensing 2001 International show, except for the endless licensing and marketing of dead movie stars,…Continue Reading
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Tagged Art Impressions, Arthur, Arthur Aardvark, Arthur Andersen, BBC, Butt-Ugly Martians, Chorion Intellectual Properties, Chronicle, clifford, Consor, Curious George, Fox, Girlfriends Forever, Harry Potter, Jennifer Vincioni, Just Group, Larry Potter, Licensing 2001 International, Little Brown, Margaret Lynden, Marshall Editions, Muggles Magical Toys, Nancy Stouffer, Nixon Peabody, Noddy, Ottenheimer, Peter Rabbit, Quirk Productions, Rainbow Fish, Richard Harman, Save Borgenicht, Scholastic, Susan Branch, Thurman House, Tolkien, Turner Publishing, Vatican Library, WB Kids, Worst Case Scenario
