PEOPLE Paul Gottlieb has been named Executive Director of the Aperture Foundation. He leaves Abrams after 22 years, during which time he held the titles of Publisher, President, CEO, and most recently, Company Director and Vice Chairman of the La Martiniere Groupe. He begins August 1. Brigitte Weeks is leaving Guideposts to become Vice President…Continue Reading
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Advance publicity for this year’s Toy Fair generated all the thrill of a wet blanket, with announcements rolling in from industry giants Mattel and Hasbro that their presence at the 98-year-old show will be significantly notched down in 2002. As talk of “downsizing” and “retrenching” swirled in the press, we were also treated to the…Continue Reading
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Tagged Aibo, Andrews McMeel, Arthur, B&N, Barbie, Disney, DK, Eloise, HarperCollins, Harry Potter, Hasbro, Henson, Insectazoids, itsy bitsy, J.K Rowling, Jeanne Finestone, John Lee, Kay Thompson, Klutz, Lamaze, Landoll, Learning Curve International, Linda Yates, Little Bill, Little Critter, Mattel, McClanahan Book Company, McGraw-Hill, Michael Friedman, Mike Morris, Nelvana, Nickelodeon, OshKosh B'gosh, Patrick Feely, Patty Sullivan, Peanuts, Playing for Keeps, Rachel Ginsburg, Rocket Power, School Zone, Simon & Schuster, Sterling, Tiger Electronics, Toy Manufacturers of America, Toys R Us, Tribune Education, Warner Brothers
Are Bulked-Up Book Distributors The Industry’s Next Goliaths? Time was, you would call a guy like Gilbert Perlman a book distributor. The warehouse, the sales staff, the publishing clients, even the name on the door — Client Distribution Services — all fit the modus operandi of firms schlepping books from the presses to the masses….Continue Reading
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Tagged B&N, Borders Group, Charlie Winton, City Lights, Client Distribution Services, Consortium, Eric Kampmann, Gilbert Perlman, IBM, Ingram, iUniverse, Jim Chandler, Katherine Bright-Holmes, Ken Brooks, Larry Fox, Midpoint Trade Books, National Book Network, Phil Ollila, Publishers Group West, Publishing Dimensions, Randall Beek, Random House, Rich Freese, Simon & Schuster, Small Press Distribution
Reports from Regional Trade Shows Synchronicity was the unofficial theme for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s annual fall conference, which returned to Portland on Sept. 15 – 17 after a three-year hiatus. At the show’s “Celebration of Authors,” for example, the self-deprecating Elwood Reid recounted his strange long trip from life as a “big dumb…Continue Reading
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PEOPLE Rosanna Hansen has been named SVP, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Weekly Reader Corp. She left Reader’s Digest Children’s last month. . . Liz Maguire is leaving Free Press for Basic, where she will be Associate Publisher, Editorial Director. . . Since Abrams bought STC and Smithmark, there have been several casualties, including SVP Director…Continue Reading
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As live satellite feeds beamed Scholastic’s midnight Muggle-fest around the globe last month, the intricately choreographed release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was evidence of more than just the good fortune of Potter point-man Michael Jacobs. It was also proof that the one-day laydown — a luxury formerly reserved for embargoed bombshells…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Clean Well Lighted Place, Alexandra Ripley, Amazon, AMS, B&N, Bob Wietrak, Dick Heffernan, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Kevan Lyon, Michael Jacobs, Michael Wolff, Neal Sofman, Penguin Putnam, Random House, Rick Hall, Scarlett, Time Warner
Crisis management was the reigning publishing paradigm when, in 1998, George Soros’ Open Society Institute funded the Authors Guild Midlist Book Study. So it was slightly ironic when, at a meeting last month featuring study author David Kirkpatrick, several participants pronounced the midlist in satisfactory health and certified that it had never been as well…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alice Mayhew, Authors Guild Midlist Book Study, B&N, David Kirkpatrick, George Gibson, George Soros, Open Society Institute, Peter Osnos, Roxanne Coady, S&S, Tina Rosenberg, Walker
As PowerfulMedia’s Inside.com launches in the next week(s), look for Publishing Trends columns, which will run periodically during the month. PEOPLE Maureen Golden is leaving Workman Publishing at the end of May, after less than nine months in the company. Golden was previously at B&N. . . Also leaving in late May is Paula Duffy,…Continue Reading
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Can Textbook E-Tailers Topple Bookselling’s Ivory Tower? Like many Internet business ventures, online textbook retailing undoubtedly seemed like a good idea at the time. An obscenely plump $5 billion industry just begging to be undersold. More than 5 million full-time undergrads and 10 million other higher education students with annual discretionary spending power of a…Continue Reading
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The Digital Rights Management & Digital Distribution for Publishing conference in New York on February 23–24 was something of a set piece ripped straight out of an early Ionesco script, with non sequitur following hard on the heels of non sequitur. Digital rights vendors continued to perform feats of creative visualization (“This is going to…Continue Reading
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Tagged Authors Guild, B&N, BISG, Books24x7.com, Edward Ruehle, Harvard Business School Publishing, HP Laboratories, John Erickson, Ken Brooks, Martin Eberhard, Nuvomedia, Paul Aiken, Rocket eBook, Sandy Paul, Sears, Yankee Rights Management
