After handing out a slew of Dagger Awards Thursday, the Crime Writers’ Association announced it is joining forces with Cactus TV to televise the remaining awards – now branded the Crime Thriller Dagger Awards – on October 21. In other TV-related book news, ITN has teamed up with various publishers, including Faber, Penguin and Random House, on a YouTube-housed portal of book-related video content called Beyond Books. Guardian
Archives for July 2009
People and Announcements
Yves Saada is joining Disney Publishing in the new role of vp, digital media. He will be responsible for the general management and strategic oversight of digital media within Disney’s global book group, including management of the fall 2009 launch of Disney Digital Books. Saada has held senior positions at companies including Pokemon USA, Mattel, Microsoft, and BrainPop. English PEN announced the PEN/Pinter Prize, an annual award named for the late playwright Harold Pinter to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an “unflinching, […]
PM Second Quarter: Traffic Still Up
People seemed to enjoy our first “quarterly report” earlier this year, so we’re taking another crack it for the second quarter. Our true page views continue at the the first quarter’s pace of increase, up almost 20 percent compared to a year ago (and even up 3 percent over our record-setting Q1), and unique visitors are increasing even faster, at 32 percent. Interestingly, page views even as we actually lowered daily views of the Automat after hot-linking many of the morning’s stories in Lunch. Deal reports were mixed this time around: April continued the uptick from February and March, up […]
McGraw-Hill Drops Another 340 Education Jobs In Reorg
The latest in a series of reorganizations of McGraw-Hill’s textbook division sounds so happy that you could almost overlook the news that they are eliminating another 340 jobs from the unit, taking a pre-tax charge of $14 million. Those cuts follow two previous purges since early 2008 that already eliminated 455 jobs within the education line, still making this latest reduction the single largest of the three rounds of layoffs. The company’s announcement, however, simply focuses on “creating achievement-focused preK-12 education group to help students develop 21st century skills.” That new focus somehow accounts for most of the layoffs: “the […]
Yen Press to Publish TWILIGHT Graphic Novel
Meyer-loving Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive report on this release, with no announced publication date from Hachette Book Group’s graphic novel line. “Though Korean artist Young Kim is creating the art, Meyer herself is deeply immersed in the project, reviewing every panel.” The magazine promises more sample art in their 7/17 issue.EW
Judge Dismisses Part of Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Suit Against Phoenix; Viner In Bankruptcy. TrumpNation Suit Also Dismissed
An LA Superior Court judge has dismissed the fraud portion of Dennis Kucinich’s lawsuit against Phoenix Books over the publication of his 2007 book THE COURAGE TO SURVIVE. Kucinich’s attorney says it was because the alleged to have made the fraudulent representations, company president Michael Viner, has filed for bankruptcy, which exempts him from the fraud action. Kucinich’s claim of breach of contract against the company goes forward. Attorney Stanley Leiber says, “We requested and demanded that they give us an accounting of all books sold. They have never done that. That is part of their obligation.” General counsel for […]