As Noted This will be the last regular Lunch until next Friday. Deals, jobs and everything else at PublishersMarketplace will move along as usual, as well as the daily and weekly deal mails, and news items and links will be posted to the PublishersMarketplace home page on occasion. F+W To Be Sold F+W Publications is […]
Archives for March 2005
Lunch for Wednesday, March 23
Schedule Note Tomorrow (Thursday) is a travel day; Lunch will be served, but there’s no telling which actual meal it will come closest to. From Friday (March 25) through next Thursday (March 31), there will be no regular meals while we restock the kitchen. Deals, jobs and everything else at PublishersMarketplace will move along as […]
Lunch for Tuesday, March 22
Appointments Libby Jordan is moving from the Morrow side of HarperCollins — where she had been associate publisher of Morrow/Avon and Morrow cookbooks — to the new Collins division, still as associate publisher. Jordan will oversee marketing and direct-to-consumer initiatives. At Bloomsbury, Peter De Giglio has been hired as chief financial officer. Most recently, he […]
Lunch for Monday, March 21
NBCCs As you’ve probably read, the winners of the National Book Critics Circle awards: Fiction GILEAD, Marilynne Robinson Nonfiction THE REFORMATION: A History, Diarmaid MacCulloch Biography DE KOONING: An American Master, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan Criticism WHERE YOU’RE AT: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet, by Patrick Neate Poetry THE SCHOOL AMONG […]
Lunch for Friday, March 18
Profits Improve at Scholastic In their fiscal third quarter, Scholastic achieved operating profit of $5.8 million, up nicely from a $2.3 million loss a year ago (with a net loss of $.7 million, compared to a loss of $6 million last year), as sales rose 2 percent to $481 million. The stock rose over 4 […]
Lunch for Thursday, March 17
Revenues Flat at RH As Profits Rise Bertelsmann reported fiscal 2004 full-year results, and the brief divisional report for Random House shows revenues remaining basically flat in Euros, at 1.8 billion (which converts to $2.41 billion at today’s rates), in what the company calls “a sluggish book industry economy internationally.” The company’s reported profit measure […]