Irish poet Seamus Heaney, 74, died in a hospital Friday morning after a short illness. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1995. (Click here to see many of his works currently in print in the US.) Leanne Silverman joined Rowman & Littlefield as senior acquisitions editor in their Boulder office earlier this week. She […]
Archives for August 2013
Random House Has Lower Sales, Higher Earnings
Bertelsmann reported results for the first six months of the year, including the last financial report for Random House Inc. as a standalone company, covering the period right up to the merger with Penguin. Sales were “slightly lower” than last year’s record first half, falling 32 million euros (or 3.4 percent) to 915 million euros […]
Hachette Has Softer Second Quarter But Remains Up for the Year
Lagardere reported first-half of the year results after the close of the market in France on Thursday. Sales at Lagardere Publishing were 495 euros in the second quarter — and 917 million euros for the formally reported first half, up 3.1 percent on a like-for-like basis, and 12 million euros higher on a topline basis […]
Briefs: Amazon Appeals to Supreme Court, Adds Kindle Mexico; and More
On August 23, Amazon filed a brief with the US Supreme Court, asking it to hear their challenge to New York’s 2008 law requiring the etailer to collect sales tax in the state due to their network of online affiliates (Amazon Associates). The New York Court of Appeals upheld the law in a ruling in […]
On Matthew Shear
St. Martin’s Press publisher Matthew Shear, 57, died on Wednesday after a three-year battle with cancer that was unknown to nearly all of his colleagues. He joined St. Martin’s in 1995, and prior to that he worked at Bantam. The memorial service is tomorrow at 10:00 at Riverside Memorial Chapel (180 W 76th Street in NYC), with […]
Books In the News
The NYT Magazine has a big profile of Norman Rush, running in advance of the September 10 release of SUBTLE BODIES. The AP provides an advance look at the work of their own reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman included in the forthcoming September 3 release ENEMIES WITHIN: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and […]