Archives for May 2005

Getting Ready for BEA The AP files their pre-BEA story, viewing the convention through the lens of TWBG head Larry Kirshbaum, since this will be his last convention as the head of the company. Looking back 30 years ago he recalls: “It was really a kind of floating party from suite to suite among people […]

Important PublishersMarketplace Update As you may have noticed, we experienced a major hardware failure at the site towards the end of yesterday afternoon. The effect was unfortunately compounded by a “perfect storm” of negligence at our hosting company with our automated daily back up system. The good news is that the site was back up […]

Eric Yang Takes Over to RH Asia As Chi Leaves Random House’s Asian star Y.S. Chi is stepping down from his position as the founding head of Random House Asia, exhausted from “the tremendous personal physical toll of his constant round-trip travel from New York” and in response to a recent request from one of […]

Eric Yang Takes Over to RH Asia As Chi Leaves Random House’s Asian star Y.S. Chi is stepping down from his position as the founding head of Random House Asia, exhausted from “the tremendous personal physical toll of his constant round-trip travel from New York” and in response to a recent request from one of […]

Behold Our Tiny Booth: 3173 At this year’s BEA the entire operation of PublishersMarketplace.com and Publishers Lunch will squeeze itself into one very modest 10 x 10 booth. Our primary attraction will be a small computer and a large and handsome screen, so that you can view a demonstration of our site and follow show […]

AAUP Pops Quiz on Google Print for Libraries Questions about — and potential objections to — Google’s ambitious program to scan and index online the contents of major academic libraries have moved to a new level with the publication online by Business Week of a letter dated last Friday from Association of American University Presses […]