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Archives for December 2005

Lunch for Friday, December 30

December 30, 2005
By Michael Cader

Amazon Pushes Textbooks Amazon Connect, the e-tailer’s fake “blogs,” struck me as a non-story (or at least a missed/late opportunity), but another new initiative not fed to the media is potentially much more significant: The company has launched a “new and used textbooks store.” Amazon Hershey Settles Hershey settled their lawsuit against and Simon & […]

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Lunch Weekly for Monday, December 26

December 26, 2005
By Michael Cader

Monday, December 26 Our Reminder If for some reason this has reached you even though you are not a paying member of PublishersMarketplace, please visit the link below to join us all the time for complete deal reports and more. Click to register http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/register.shtml Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the […]

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Lunch for Thursday, December 22

December 22, 2005
By Michael Cader

Updates on the Waterstone’s/Ottakar Deal The heads of a number of UK houses held meetings recently with top management at HMV and Ottakar’s to underscore — in case their feelings were not already known — “in the strongest possible terms that the proposed merger of Waterstone’s and Ottakar’s was ‘against the wishes of the industry,'” […]

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Lunch for Wednesday, December 21

December 21, 2005
By Michael Cader

Schedules You would think that waves of the autoreplies from all those people who started their two-week vacations last Friday would have been a hint, but it still feels as if the holiday has snuck up on us. With the added help of the transit strike there’s considerably less news day. If there’s not enough […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, December 20

December 20, 2005
By Michael Cader

NYT Staffer Says Book’s Timing Drove Bush Spy Story An unidentified NYT journalist tells the LA Times that the imminent publication of James Risen’s embargoed book by the Free Press is what compelled the paper of record to finally run with their story on President Bush authorizing eavesdropping on US citiznes. “When they realized that […]

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Lunch for Monday, December 19

December 19, 2005
By Michael Cader

State of Spying Revelations If you’re a Democrat, you’re wondering why the NY Times agreed to wait a year to let James Risen report on President Bush’s post-9/11 secret order to allow eavesdropping on American citizens without court approval. If you’re a Republican, you’re wondering why the newspaper ran the story the day the Patriot […]

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