Archives for July 2004

Please Note I’m out of town with limited access the next couple of days; today’s Lunch is abbreviated, and tomorrow and Wednesday will see something similar or — more likely — no Lunch at all. Links and anything else important will be posted at the PublishersMarketplace home page. People in Tehran Says Nafisi’s Version is […]

That’s A Lot of Jobs With another 3 new posts from yesterday and almost 20 from the last four days, our Job Board remains very active with fresh opportunities. For employers, we provide by far the single-largest audience of book publishing people available online (well over 27,000 a day to be precise) — and we […]

That’s A Lot of Jobs The other real news of the day is the big action at our Job Board, where we had a vigorous 11 brand-new postings just yesterday, along with plenty more earlier in the week. For employers, we provide by far the single-largest audience of book publishing people available online (well over […]

RH Makes Rizzoli A Distribution Offer They Couldn’t Resist Random House’s distribution group has finally landed a client of scale, as Rizzoli has informed their current distributor Holtzbrinck that they will shift their business as January 1, 2005. Holtzbrinck Distributed Publishers sales and marketing vp Patti Hughes tells her staff in a memo that, “They […]

Rockport Gets Creative Quarto’s Rockport Publishing Group (with includes the illustrated design line Rockport, the mind/body/spirit imprint Fair Winds Press, Quarry Books, RotoVision and Apple Press) has acquired Minneapolis-based Creative Publishers International for $10.8 million in cash and convertible loan notes. CPi is known for their home improvement, home decorating, sewing and crafting, and outdoors-related […]

Everything Used is New Again We have often discussed the increased liquidity among used book sales as one of many major systemic challenges the book business faces, and now the NYT has concluded that, “Analysts and industry executives said the momentum among consumers and newly minted used-book sellers was just now approaching the point of […]