Happy New Year, and Meet the New Owners Ready or not, the calendar calls for the annual ritual of pulling out the crystal ball — or in our case, a ball covered with a few crystals — to muse about the year ahead in publishing. (NB: No points will be awarded to anyone who predicts that Simon & Schuster will be sold; book sales will be stagnant; or that a few months after the release of the film version of the DA VINCI CODE, the NYT will run a story about sales of the book appearing to slow down.) This […]
