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Archives for June 2004

Lunch for Wednesday, June 30

June 30, 2004
By Michael Cader

Clinton Bookscan: Over 600K Nielsen Bookscan reports that they have tracked sales of approximately 606,000 copies of MY LIFE through last Saturday. The book was No. 1 in all 99 regional markets broken out within the tracking system. Given the percentage of the market that they cover, and the likelihood of big sales at nonreporting […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, June 29

June 29, 2004
By Michael Cader

MY LIFE Nears A Million, and More Books of the Moment Knopf estimated that MY LIFE had sold 935,000 copies through Sunday. Following the fashion of TBR, the Washington Post Book World has posted in advance their forthcoming Sunday review of MY LIFE by Walter Isaacson. As for other books on the landscape, I neglected […]

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Lunch for Monday, June 28

June 28, 2004
By Michael Cader

Hubris Gets Heat In the midst of Clinton madness I missed the building buzz over the next inside the Beltway book aimed for headlines and bestseller lists: Brassey’s forthcoming IMPERIAL HUBRIS: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terrorism, set for release on July 4. Promoted as by an “anonymous member of the U.S. […]

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Lunch for Friday, June 25

June 25, 2004
By Michael Cader

Lagardere Confirms Interest in Hodder French media conglomerate Lagardere officially confirmed yesterday their interest in adding Hodder Headline to their Hachette unit (which includes Orion and Octopus in the UK). Dow Jones Newswires puts a higher estimate on the potential value of Hodder than we’ve seen elsewhere (by a matter of another $12 million to […]

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Lunch for Thursday, June 24

June 24, 2004
By Michael Cader

Apologies Once Again On selected days we’ve still been accidentally sending some of you both a Deluxe Lunch and a traditional flavor one. I know it can be annoying, and I’m sorry. Without boring you with the technical details, it’s fairly complex to deliver two different mails to two separate chunks of our mailing list, […]

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Lunch for Wednesday, June 23

June 23, 2004
By Michael Cader

Pension Problem Sidelines Smith Deal; Hodder Will Be Sold to Soothe Shareholders WH Smith “Has suspended discussions with Permira pending clarification of the level of any possible offer,” based on the expectation that the company’s massively underfunded pension makes Permira’s original bid of $1.7 billion unsustainable. A Permira spokesperson says they are still talking to […]

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