News and opinion on the changing world of book publishing
While the rest of the world suffers the economic squeeze, the government-run Chinese publishing industry has counterintuitively managed to cultivate opportunity for expansion both for local entrepreneurs and international publishers. Talk of less state interference and mounting interest from foreign markets is encouraging some publishers to brave the censors, fears of piracy, and the cultural [...]
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March 2007
PEOPLE
Sales was where the action was this past month, with big changes at Random House, S&S, Abrams and elsewhere. Mary Wowk, Director of World Wide Sales at Black Dog & Leventhal, has been appointed VP, Sales of HNA, which includes Abrams, STC and distributed lines. In a separate announcement, Katrina [...]
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September 2005
PEOPLE
It seems as though anyone who wasn’t on vacation or sabbatical this month was busy changing jobs:
Liz Perl has been named VP Publisher of Rodale, reporting to Tami Booth Corwin. She was previously Associate Publisher of Penguin’s Riverhead, Perigee, HP, Portfolio and Sentinel lines and Director of Marketing and Executive [...]
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May 2005
NYU’s Center for Publishing hosted its third Management Forum for Small and Independent Publishers April 15-16, and got an impressive turnout from around the country. Director Robert Baensch hosted the event.
Friday morning was devoted to the Big Picture, and Bruce Harris, who headed sales at Random before going to Workman and now, [...]
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March 2004
It was a sign of the times last month when, at a three-day meeting in Beijing that brought 170 Chinese publishers together with a group of US industry veterans, the Communist Party commissar dropped in on the event — and participants barely raised an eyebrow at the apparatchik’s visit. Yes, a [...]
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