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 […]
Archives for February 2010
Burkle Continues Agitating Against Barnes & Noble Board
It was fairly obvious that the Barnes & Noble board of directors would decline investor Ron Burkle’s request that they grant him an exception from the poison pill provision that they adopted specifically to block Burkle and his friends from threatening the Riggios’ de facto control over the company. But in a new letter to […]
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Simon & Schuster Audio vp audio production Sandy Moore is retiring March 1 after 25 years with the division, since it’s founding in 1984. Christopher Lynch writes, “her vision for how an audiobook should sound literally shaped an industry, and her ability to adapt to the changing times has kept S&S as the standard bearer […]
Random Names New Digital Execs; Realigns A Few Imprints
Random House CEO Markus Dohle announced internally today “our next steps forward in accelerating the company’s transition to digital, growing our physical book sales, and increasing the efficiency of our customer- author- and publisher-support services.” He also noted some other realignments: The Princeton Review, Sylvan Learning, and Prima Games imprints are becoming part of Random […]
O'Reilly: Stay Focused On the "Boring Stuff"
O’Reilly Media ceo Tim O’Reilly provided a commanding ending to the company’s multi-day Tools of Change conference yesterday, where organizers said they had over 1,250 attendees. Curiously, however, in speaking to the core strengths of what a publisher does, O’Reilly seemed to rebut much of what had been presented during the conference itself. He made […]
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Director of Janklow & Nesbit UK Tif Loehnis is leaving the agency after 10 years. She tells the Bookseller: “I have a large and noisy family who need to see more of me than they have done in the last few years and my authors need an agent who can be more available to them.” […]