Penguin Group ceo John Makinson has an essay up at the Bookseller: “It is striking how rarely book publishers take…a gamble on talent from outside the industry. I arrived in book publishing late in my career and was amazed to discover that every other head of house (itself a term that helps to define book publishers as a race apart) had been in the industry for decades. “So, too, had almost everyone else. Across the Atlantic, reservations have been expressed about the appointment of a Bertelsmann executive to the top job at Random House. Well, yes, he may have worked […]
