• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

Archives for February 2010

Lunch Weekly for Monday, March 1

February 28, 2010
By Michael Macrone

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 […]

Login to read full story

Burkle Continues Agitating Against Barnes & Noble Board

February 26, 2010
By Michael Cader

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 […]

Login to read full story

People

February 25, 2010
By Michael Cader

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 […]

Continue Reading

Random Names New Digital Execs; Realigns A Few Imprints

February 25, 2010
By Michael Cader

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 […]

Login to read full story

O'Reilly: Stay Focused On the "Boring Stuff"

February 25, 2010
By Michael Cader

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 […]

Login to read full story

People and More

February 25, 2010
By Michael Cader

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.” […]

Login to read full story

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 11
  • Go to Next Page »

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • A Former Prosecutor Explains the Precedents On Woodward and S&S's Side February 2, 2023 The Hill
  • Author Booted From Horror Writers Association Over Racist, Transphobic Rants February 1, 2023 Daily Beast
  • Two Years Ago Netflix Settled A Lawsuit Brought by Chooseco; Now Random House Has Licensed A "Stranger Things" Choose Your Own Adventure Book February 1, 2023 PW (with no reference to the lawsuit)
  • London Book Fair Seminars to Feature Harper CEO Brian Murray, Author Colson Whitehead February 1, 2023 Show site
  • Folio Prize Shortlists Announced February 1, 2023 Prize site
  • Barnes &. Noble Plans 15,000-Square-Foot Store At The Avenue East Cobb in Atlanta January 30, 2023 East Cobb News
  • Boris Johnson Received £510,000 As First Advance on His Memoirs January 27, 2023 Parliamentary Disclosure
  • Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne's Literary Archives Acquired by New York Public Library January 27, 2023 NYT
  • R.F. Kuang's Next Novel Yellowface "Does deal a lot with underpaid, undervalued, entry-level employees in publishing" January 26, 2023 NYT interview
  • Daily Beast Obtains Mark Pomerantz's NDA and Contract with the Manhattan DA's Office January 26, 2023 DB
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.