• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

Archives for August 2007

Lunch for Friday, August 31

August 31, 2007
By Michael Cader

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 […]

Login to read full story

Lunch for Thursday, August 30

August 30, 2007
By Michael Cader

“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 […]

Login to read full story

Lunch for Wednesday, August 29

August 29, 2007
By Michael Cader

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 […]

Login to read full story

Lunch for Tuesday, August 28

August 28, 2007
By Michael Cader

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 […]

Login to read full story

Lunch for Monday, August 27

August 27, 2007
By Michael Cader

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 […]

Login to read full story

Lunch Weekly for August 27

August 26, 2007
By Michael Cader

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 […]

Login to read full story

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Go to Next Page »

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • A Former Prosecutor Explains the Precedents On Woodward and S&S's Side February 2, 2023 The Hill
  • Author Booted From Horror Writers Association Over Racist, Transphobic Rants February 1, 2023 Daily Beast
  • Two Years Ago Netflix Settled A Lawsuit Brought by Chooseco; Now Random House Has Licensed A "Stranger Things" Choose Your Own Adventure Book February 1, 2023 PW (with no reference to the lawsuit)
  • London Book Fair Seminars to Feature Harper CEO Brian Murray, Author Colson Whitehead February 1, 2023 Show site
  • Folio Prize Shortlists Announced February 1, 2023 Prize site
  • Barnes &. Noble Plans 15,000-Square-Foot Store At The Avenue East Cobb in Atlanta January 30, 2023 East Cobb News
  • Boris Johnson Received £510,000 As First Advance on His Memoirs January 27, 2023 Parliamentary Disclosure
  • Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne's Literary Archives Acquired by New York Public Library January 27, 2023 NYT
  • R.F. Kuang's Next Novel Yellowface "Does deal a lot with underpaid, undervalued, entry-level employees in publishing" January 26, 2023 NYT interview
  • Daily Beast Obtains Mark Pomerantz's NDA and Contract with the Manhattan DA's Office January 26, 2023 DB
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.