News and opinion on the changing world of book publishing
July 2010
Since part of the mission of museum publishing is to produce great, big, beautiful books, June’s D.C.–based National Museum Publishing Seminar, “Print and the Digital Network,” offered anachronisms and anomalies galore. Most of the seminar’s sponsors are high-end European and Far Eastern printers like Mondadori and CS Graphics. They declared that the illustrated, printed exhibition [...]
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December 2001
Museum and Art Book Publishers Wander in Copyright’s Wild West If every picture tells a story, Mitch Tuchman has heard them all. As head of publications at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for 13 years, Tuchman produced 68 volumes for copublication or trade distribution, wrangling permission to print thousands of images from [...]
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September 2001
PEOPLE There’s been major movement in publishing these last few weeks of summer, which PT will recap for those who have been literally or figuratively out of it: Kara Welsh has been named VP, Publisher of New American Library, reporting to Leslie Gelbman. She was VP, Deputy Publisher at Pocket Books. And Therese Burke, formerly [...]
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