More Ruminations on Royalties Richard Charkin’s post on the possibility of moving to simplified royalties based on a publisher’s receipts has drawn a variety of comments from US agents, including Jeff Gerecke (reporting on an AAR committee investigation of the topic, and questioning the “transparency and auditability”); Andrew Zack (writing on the abuse of high-discount […]
Archives for August 2007
Lunch for Thursday, August 30
“Running with Scissors” Suit Settled — Everybody Wins Augusten Burroughs and St. Martin’s have agreed to change a characterization of Running with Scissors in the front matter as “memoir” to call it just a “book” instead, as part of the settlement of a lawsuit filed by the Turcotte family. Burroughs will also alter the author’s […]
Lunch for Wednesday, August 29
Clinton to Launch on Oprah Before Oprah Winfrey gets to the reissue of IF I DID IT she’ll start the post-Labor Day television season in a more noble vein with a program featuring former president Bill Clinton discussing his book GIVING: How Each of Us Can Change the World, airing on the day the book […]
Lunch for Tuesday, August 28
Quarto Buys MBI The Quarto Group has been aiming for another US acquisition for a while now, and yesterday they announced the purchase of St. Paul-based Motor Books International (MBI). Quarto’s Massachusetts-based Quayside Publishing Group, led by president and ceo Ken Fund, will oversee MBI’s operations, including the “core” imprints Motor Books, Voyageur Press and […]
Lunch for Monday, August 27
It’s Official: Summer is Over With Labor Day still a week away, the media has nonetheless given up on summer and moved into that transitional season formally known as “Fall Preview.” (Filing stories before the holiday often allows the reporters themselves to go on vacation.) NY Magazine’s Fall Preview issue mentions dozens of books, though […]
Lunch Weekly for August 27
Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time […]