Collins Gets All the Love? The NY Observer looks at the revival of Collins under Steve Ross, “a smiley, excitable fellow.” They add: “Since last July, Mr. Ross has been feverishly laying the infrastructure for the new Collins, acquiring books and hiring editors faster than any other publisher has in recent memory. These hires, announced one by one over the past few months, came with some fanfare, and have stunned not only literary agents and Mr. Ross’ competitors at other publishing houses, but also colleagues within HarperCollins. Some editors at the Harper unit, which has long been HarperCollins’ flagship imprint, […]
Archives for April 2008
Lunch for Tuesday, April 1
Bloomsbury’s Last Potter-Based Report Bloomsbury reported preliminary results for fiscal 2007 this morning, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows helping to double sales for the year, at 150 million pounds, with pre-tax profit more than tripling to 17.9 million pounds. Publishing Khaled Hosseini and Elizabeth Gilbert in the UK and Germany provided another boost, as did their German edition of Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienviellantes/The Kindly Ones (not due to be released in its English translation until 2009), which has sold over 100,000 copies in German. The US unit, where there has been major staff turnover, declined 3.6 percent in […]