Christian publisher Tyndale House is right in the middle of the controversy over the application of new health care requirements to organizations with religious beliefs at their core. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton has issued a preliminary injunction in the publisher’s favor, exempting Tyndale House for now from providing contraceptive coverage to employees as mandated by the new health care law. Judge Walton wrote in his order, “The contraceptive coverage mandate affirmatively compels the plaintiffs to violate their religious beliefs in order to comply with the law and avoid the sanctions that would be imposed for their noncompliance.” Tyndale says […]
Archives for November 2012
Bookselling: The Book Stall in Conversation With Potential New Owners; Mobile Libris Needs New Buyer By December 31
Owner of the Book Stall in Winnetka, IL Roberta Rubin, who has been preparing to retire after 30 years of running the store, tells the Chicago Tribune she’s “in conversation with three prospective buyers and is confident one will be able to close the deal.” In May Rubin said she was “plotting an exit strategy” though at the time the store was not formally up for sale. She had told the Sun-Times, “I’m talking to people who might be interested in buying it, but I’m still making that decision.” Rubin said her store turned a profit over the past year–after […]
Washington Post’s Top 10, and More
The Washington Post published their “best of 2012” lists, with their Top 10 list mixing consensus favorites with a few new contenders (Marigold is published by Stanford’s Woodrow Wilson Center). NONFICTION Behind The Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo House of Stone, Anthony Shadid Iron Curtain, Anne Applebaum Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam, James G. Hershberg Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson FICTION Arcadia, Lauren Groff Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel Broken Harbor, Tana French Canada, Richard Ford As usual, the paper also recommends 50 notable works of […]
People, Etc.
Allan Adler has been promoted to general counsel and vp, government affairs at the Association of American Publishers. Peter Berkery, Jr. will serve as executive director of the Association of American University Presses, starting March 1, 2013. He has been vp and publisher for Oxford University Press’s US Law Division for the past four years. Longtime Crown editor and executive Charlie Conrad was laid off earlier this week, after 22 years at the company (first Bantam Doubleday Dell and then Random House Inc.). Spokesperson David Drake tells us “the change did not involve a broader reassignment of responsibilities or roles within […]
eNews: Hachette Commits to EPUB3; Fictionwise Will Shut Down on December 4
Long on-the-verge EPUB3 may finally land. Hachette Book Group underscored their commitment to new standard and the enhanced content it supports, announcing that they will release 16 titles in EPUB3 between this November and next March. Beginning with titles across a variety of nonfiction genres and children’s books, they plan to “publish all standard novels in EPUB3 by March 2013” as well. The news had been widely expected ever since Barnes & Noble bought the company in 2009, prior to launching the first iteration of the Nook, but Fictionwise will officially shut down on December 4, according to an email […]
People, Etc.
Tom Clancy is returning to William Morris Endeavor for representation, where Jennifer Rudolph Walsh and Tracy Fisher will serve as his primary agents. Clancy next novel THREAT VECTOR publishes next month, and Paramount is “rebooting” the Clany movie franchise with “Jack Ryan,” directed by Kenneth Branagh, and starring Chris Pine, Keira Knightley and Kevin Costner, set for a Christmas 2013 release. Allison Hollett has joined Osprey as US vp, sales and marketing, where she will develop and manage all aspects of the company’s marketing and publicity efforts working out of Osprey’s New York offices. Hollett, previously director of trade sales […]