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Archives for November 2004

Lunch for Tuesday, November 30

November 30, 2004
By Michael Cader

Retailing News Galore 1. 29-year-old Sarah McNally is opening a New York City branch of her family’s Canadian-based McNally Robinson bookstores on Prince Street. She was as an editor at Perseus (and husband Chris Jackson is an editor at Crown). McNally tells the NYT, “When I’ve told people, they respond as if I’m doing the […]

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Lunch for Monday, November 29

November 29, 2004
By Michael Cader

Gordimer Collects Charity Book Nadine Gordimer’s efforts to assemble an anthology of stories from well-known writers to benefit South African AIDS victims draw press from all over. TELLING TALES comprises 21 stories from the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Woody Allen, and Arthur Miller-all previously published, however. The collection will be […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, November 23

November 23, 2004
By Michael Cader

Schedule Note As you will see, things are already pretty quiet, and from the cavalcade of auto-replies, a lot of people seem to think that this is a week-long holiday. There will be no Lunch served by e-mail tomorrow, but we’ll note any stories of interest at the PublishersMarketplace.com home. As usual, deals and all […]

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Lunch for Monday, November 22

November 22, 2004
By Michael Cader

Blackwell’s May Sell Stores After All The Blackwell’s retail saga continues; the parent company indicated that they will decide by early next year what to do about third-party interest in acquiring some or all of their 61 bookstores. AP story Fair Highlights Miami Herald book editor Connie Ogle looks back at a “memorable” Miami Book […]

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Lunch for Friday, November 19

November 19, 2004
By Michael Cader

Booksource to Pull Back from Retail St. Louis wholesaler Booksource will stop servicing retailers by the end of the year — an $11 million business — and will focus on supplying books to schools. (The company also owns Peaceable Kingdom Press.) Barnes & Noble has been the company’s largest retail customer, but president Neil Jaffe […]

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Lunch for Thursday, November 18

November 18, 2004
By Michael Cader

NBAs As you probably know, the National Book Awards were presented last night, to: Fiction Lily Tuck, THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY (Harper) Nonfiction Kevin Boyle, ARC OF JUSTICE: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Holt) Young People’s Literature Pete Hautman, GODLESS (Simon & Schuster) Poetry Jean Valentine, DOOR IN […]

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