Barnes & Noble is holding an event at Chelsea Piers next week, on October 20, billed as “a major event in our company’s history,” so the NYT speculates that’s when they will unveil their own branded ereading device. The Times also “reports” on what Lunch revealed in July: that Barnes & Noble has been negotiating with publishers to give ebook purchasers the right to “lend” their ebooks to other people. (At the time we reported on it, the proposal under discussion would allow “lending” the ebook to one person at a time, up to three or four times, with DRM […]
Archives for October 2009
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Vicki Lame has been promoted to associate editor at St. Martin’s. John Freeman, who was named acting editor of Granta after the departure of Alex Clark in May, has been made editor on a permanent basis, The Bookseller reports.http://www.thebookseller.com/news/99842-freeman-named-granta-editor-on-permanent-basis.html.rss Mystery writer Stuart Kaminsky, 75, died last Friday. Sarah Weinman rounds up the coverage and testimonials.
Lunch Weekly for Monday, October 12
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 to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Debut Haley Tanner’s VACLAV AND LENA, a love story set in the […]
More on That BN eReader
The Wall Street Journal filed more details on Barnes & Noble’s own ereading device that we told you about previously, which “could begin selling the device as soon as next month.” (The launch has already slid from the information we were originally provided.) Then Gizmodo followed with a “leak” from “someone who claims to work for BN developing mobile apps” that says the reader could run Google’s Android as its operating system. Meanwhile, the in the UK the Telegraph is trying to figure out who is partnering with Amazon to provide wireless delivery to Kindle, since AT&T doesn’t work there–and […]
Two With Harper Connections Play the Other Side of Palin Portrayal
First we saw Lloyd Grove’s Beast piece that points out last fall’s parody paperback TERMINATRIX: The Sarah Palin Chronicles, published by Collins, was likely co-authored by Adam Bellow–who is editing Palin’s GOING ROGUE. It was published as “compiled by the Editors of the Wasilla Iron Dog Gazette,” but “informed sources” say it was the work of Bellow and Bruce Nichols.Beast Then we saw on Time.com that Joel Stein wrote a 49-page parody (offered as a free pdf), ROGE JOURNALIST: An Even More American Life. His co-author is ghostwriter Neil Strauss–one of the two people behind the Igniter line under Harper’s […]
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The Reece Halsey North, Reece Halsey New York and Reece Halsey Paris literary agencies have melding into Kimberley Cameron & Associates, with the same staff and offices (new contacts are at the site: www.KimberleyCameron.com). Penguin UK managing director Helen Fraser will retire from the publisher at the end of the year. She is going to become chief executive of the Girls’ Day School Trust, and will also join the board of Frances Lincoln as a non-executive director. The Guardian Children’s Fiction prize has gone to Mal Peet‘s EXPOSURE.