Archives for April 2006

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Graham to Granta and More Personnel News Canongate managing director David Graham will take over as managing director of Granta Publications this summer, overseeing the book and magazine units as well as Portobello Books (also backed by Granta owner Sigrid Rausing). Rausing comments: “We are thrilled that David is joining us. Together with Ian Jack, […]

Atlas’ New World, CDS’s New Services Atlas Books is expanding their world beyond their series co-venture approach to publishing (with co-published lines at both Harper and Norton) to a new publishing partnership with online magazine Slate, distributed by Perseus’s CDS.   The line launches in June as Slate celebrates its tenth anniversary with a compilation […]

GBL To Begin Talks on Taking Bertelsmann Public At the annual meeting of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Albert Frere announced that the company “has decided to exercise its right to request that Bertelsmann launch an initial public offering.” He added, “In accordance with our agreement, discussions with Bertelsmann on the IPO are expected to begin next […]

Nice Girls Don’t Copy Author Kaavya Viswanathan had this to say in a statement from Little, Brown yesterday: “When I was in high school, I read and loved two wonderful novels by Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings, which spoke to me in a way few other books did. Recently, I was very surprised […]

How Opal Mehta’s Author Got Accused of Plagiarism The Harvard Crimson says that sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan’s novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life “contains several passages that are strikingly similar to two books by Megan F. McCafferty — the 2001 novel Sloppy Firsts and the 2003 novel Second Helpings.” McCafferty’s […]