PEOPLE Simon & Schuster’s various imprints have been trimmed over the past few weeks: Rachel Klayman has been laid off from The Free Press, Jeff Neuman has left S&S (and may be reached at neudors@yahoo.com), and Rosemary Ahern (who arrived from Dutton less than two years ago), and Kim Kanner and an assistant have departed…Continue Reading
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Though much battered in the last decade, Croatia’s 4.5 million inhabitants are citizens of the most developed and richest former Yugoslav republic — and one eager to traffic in the world of books. The Zagreb-based publisher Hrvoje Bozicevic of Editions Bozicevic profiles the nation’s evolving publishing business. The wartime atrocities that befell Croatia and Slovenia…Continue Reading
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Tagged Auden, Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, Croatian Association of Publishers and Booksellers, Dubravka Ugresic, Editions Bozicevic, Eve Ensler, F.W. Engdahl, Fording the Stream of Consciousness, Grand Street, Hrvoje Bozicevic, J. K. Rowling, Janko Polic Kamov, John Grisham, Leksikografski Zavod Miroslav Krleza, marble Skin, Matic Hrvatska, Milan Kundera, Miljenko Jergovic, National University Library, Nikola Sop, Northwestern, Norton, Partisan Review, Patricia Cornwell, Paul Auster, Penguin, Sarajevki Marlboro, Skolska Kujiga, Slavenka Drakulic, Sveznadar, The New York Trilogy, The Vagina Monologues, Tom Clancy
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
Vendor Survey 2001 As the old nursery rhyme has it: “Three wise men of Gotham / Went to sea in a bowl; / If the bowl had been stronger / My story had been longer.” The ever trenchant respondents to Publishing Trends’ annual survey on publisher services to wholesalers and retailers have cast publishers in…Continue Reading
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Tagged Bertelsmann, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, Houghton Mifflin, Norton, Penguin Putnam, PGW, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Time Warner Trade, Workman
PEOPLE As announced previously, Bill Shinker will join Penguin Putnam as SVP and Publisher of an as yet unnamed imprint, on Sept. 4. He was most recently at Free Press, where he had been Publisher from August 2000 to his resignation at the beginning of April. Ken Wright, formerly at Holt Reference, has been named…Continue Reading
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When You Care Enough to Give the Very Best With Your Galley ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT INSIDE.COM (6/2/01) CHICAGO — According to a recent survey, interest in e-books is minimal, and recent figures suggest that retail sales of books are flat. But that hasn’t stopped publishers from hyping their new books, whatever it takes. And what…Continue Reading
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Tagged Columbia University Press, Diamond, Fire, Harcourt, Johns Hopkins University Press, Living It Up: Our Love Affair With Luxury, My House Is Killing Me!, Newmarket Press, Norton, Outside magazine, Rae Lawrence, Rodale, Sebastian Junger, Shadow of the Dolls, Sputnik, Walker & Co.
Vault.com is a web site used by job seekers to get the lowdown on what it’s really like to work for a company — in full, unexpurgated, and unsubstantiated glory. Many publishers aren’t even listed, including the entire Holtzbrinck group, while Norton gets little traffic and virtually no messages. Same with S&S, which has had…Continue Reading
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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PEOPLE Mark Pattis, who had been CEO of Tribune Education, but left in March, right before the division was put on the market (it was just sold to McGraw–Hill), has become an investor. He is a partner in Next Chapter Holdings, a company that invests in a number of areas, including books, magazines, and digital…Continue Reading
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PEOPLE Reader’s Digest announces that Harold Clarke, most recently President of Random’s Children’s Publishing Division, has been named VP Publisher New Market Development, for RD’s Global Books and Home Entertainment Division, reporting to SVP and President John Bohane. Speaking of exurban, Janet Harris has left Workman, where she has overseen all sales, to become Associate…Continue Reading
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