ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT INSIDE.COM (5/15/01) Nearly two decades after he captivated the world with escapades of gonzo spirituality as the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh — he with the fleet of 93 Rolls-Royces and a controversial 64,000-acre commune in Oregon — the guru today known as Osho has been reincarnated as a mind-body-spirit book phenom. Indeed, 11…Continue Reading
Wine Dark Seas Aegean Fables, France Between the Sheets, and Sweden Says ‘Pippi, Move Over’ A veritable odyssey of titles appears this month on the bestseller list from Greece, at the top of which is The Three Widows by Dora Yiannakopoulou, which traces the lives and friendships of three women who become friends after the…Continue Reading
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Despite lackluster sales and the death of all things ‘e’, there is continued interest from publishers in ebooks, epublishing, and elearning. So the seventh annual seminar hosted by University of Virginia and the Library of Congress on “Publishing in the 21st Century” was very much web-focused. The keynote was given by Hungry Minds’ CEO John…Continue Reading
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Last month Publishing Trends reported the results of its questionnaire on ebooks (see PT April, 2001). This month Vista International (with the Bookseller, Book Marketing Ltd., and Rightscom) gives us a peek at their survey of publisher attitudes toward technology, due out in June: • Surveying 80 “senior publishing executives” in trade, educational, professional, and…Continue Reading
Publishers Scrimmage Amid Dwindling Mass Market Suppliers The idiom of mass market book sales pops with so much merchandisers’ slang you could almost mistake it for a new extreme sport. You got your “lane blockers,” your “waterfalls,” your “power wings” and “gravity sleeves.” There are “clip strips” dangling product ready-to-hand, and “candyless checkouts” cheered by…Continue Reading
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Tagged Anderson News, Avon/Morrow, BISG, Blockbuster, Charles Levy, Curtis Circulation, Dorchester Publishing, Fred Meyer, George Bick, Golden Books, Gopher News, HarperCollins, Home Depot, Hudson County News, Ingram Periodicals, Jimmy Pattison, Joel Osteen, John Harrington, John Morthanos, Kmart, Krogers, Musicland, Nickelodeon, Overwaiteas, Primedia, Retail Vision, Rich Maryyanek, Safeway, Seventeen Magazine, Sharon Hails, Sher Distributing, Simon & Schuster, spongebob squarepants, Stefan Kaiser, Target, The News Group, Tim de Young, Tom Fogarty, Tom Stanley, Wal-Mart
It’s nearly BEA — which must mean that party season is on us again. What to do, where to go? While the fashion and film pack are given free nights galore at breathtakingly trendy Park with its planted tree in the middle of the floor and psychedelic fish-tank in the VIP bar upstairs, we publishing…Continue Reading
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As Russia’s book culture rebounds — witness the White Nights International Book Fair, slated for June 27–30 in St. Petersburg — copyright remains a needling concern. Yulia Borodyanskaya of Rightscenter.com reports from a recent conference meant to bolster awareness of the nation’s intellectual property laws. St. Petersburg is slowly but surely emerging as the cultural…Continue Reading
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The Streets of London Cumming Goes Undercover, More Fodder for Potter, and Delahunt Reaches for the Orange With all eyes focusing intently on the latest deals from the London Book Fair, we thought we’d swivel the periscope toward what’s hitting the stores this summer in the UK. For starters, Charles Cumming’s A Spy By Nature…Continue Reading
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McGraw-Hill’s Kids Group Sets Sights on the Trade Eleven years ago McGraw-Hill Inc. sacked more than 1,000 people and gutted its own infrastructure, shrinking its operating units from what had once been five, to three, and then two. Corporate vultures were regularly dive-bombing the company’s Sixth Avenue headquarters, girding for the last great hostile takeover…Continue Reading
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With Vista Computer Services’ survey of publishers’ attitudes toward ebooks and new technology about to be unleashed, and Simba’s just-released E-ssential Knowledge: The Consumer E-Books White Paper ($495 from simbanet.com), Publishing Trends decided to ask a (very) few questions of its own. We emailed a sampling of our correspondents and subscribers a brief questionnaire, and…Continue Reading
