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Archives for February 2002

February 6, 2002By Michael Cader

Lunch for February 6, 2002

February 6, 2002By Michael Cader

New Deals, Proposals, and More If you’re not part of our Marketplace than you missed news of 12 new deals just yesterday, including a brave trek through Antarctica, a booklover’s travel memoir, a pre-empted novel, a big deal for two TV doctors, a newsmaking memoir, and still more. Plus, every day is bringing lots of new proposals from agents and writers on our Rights Board (as I’m sure you noted, Deal Lunch has been carrying news of books discovered and sold through the board). Some of the latest entries include a book on a 1944 commando raid to destroy Japanese […]

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February 5, 2002By Michael Cader

Lunch for February 5, 2002

February 5, 2002By Michael Cader

Who Is on Top? We’ll have a number of new deals to post later day (it’s a crazy day for me). As noted yesterday, Now every day the PublishersMarketplace.com home page shows the ten most visited member pages of the week. Members can also see Lunch headlines first thing in the morning (before we Lunch is fully baked) and a deal of the day. Traffic keeps growing, as do letters from members making all kinds of great connections through the site. As I’ve said, one motivation for the new site is to try and take the power of Lunch in […]

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February 4, 2002By Michael Cader

Lunch for February 4, 2002

February 4, 2002By Michael Cader

Court Stops Tolkien Guide as Houghton Finds Itself on the Other Side of the Infringement Fence Whether or not you believed that THE WIND DONE GONE was deserving of parody protection, it was easy to admire the tenacity of Houghton Mifflin in defending an author who was not destined from the start for the bestseller list. But now that defense — cast at the time as part of the company’s storied history — seems to have been less than a broad stand, as last Thursday Houghton won a preliminary injunction from U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein preventing publication of Michael […]

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February 1, 2002By Michael Cader

Lunch for February 1, 2002

February 1, 2002By Michael Cader

Deals and Refinements In deals, there’s a Whitbread winner, a “gritty, African-American noir, new books from bestelling author Anne Rule, high-profile first fiction, a provocative book on how American leaves “many observers both admiring and uneasy, envious and appalled, enchanted but bewildered,” movie deals and more, all in the last day. In new proposals, agents are offering a Viet Nam thriller from a former aide to General Westmoreland, a “creepy” tale, and more. And our new members home page puts a lot of useful features right up front, including, as an experiment, Lunch headlines in advance of the daily mail […]

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