Just to confirm what we all knew what was coming — since no one else has formally said it out loud yet — by all indications Penguin Random House has completed the execution of new ebook contracts with major trading partners. As required by the court, Random House is complying with the terms of Penguin’s ebook pricing settlements, and ebook titles from both divisions are available for discounting by retailers now. We have no direct confirmation of when the new Random House contracts were implemented, but Amazon price-change tracking via our Publishers Marketplace Book Tracker tool shows a number of […]
Archives for September 2013
People, Etc.
Stephen Power has joined Amacom as senior editor, responsible for the management and human resources publishing programs. Previously he was a senior editor at Wiley. Liese Mayer will join Scribner as editor on September 16. Previously she was an associate editor at The Overlook Press. Sara Hartman-Seeskin will join Sourcebooks as rights and exports manager. Previously she was international rights manager for Free Spirit Publishing. In addition, Liz Kelsch has been promoted to publicity manager and Nicole Komasinski moves up to associate graphic designer. Claire Anderson-Wheeler has joined Regal Literary as an agent. Previously she was an agent at Anderson […]
Bettors’ Favorite Crace Leads Booker Shortlist
UK bettors’ favorite Jim Crace’s HARVEST is one of six titles shortlisted for the Booker prize, leading a conventional list drawn from big publishers. Statistically, the list features 4 women; one 3-time nominee (Toibin); 2 titles not yet published in the US (Lahiri’s book publishes September 24; Catton’s is scheduled for October 15); 2 Canadians (Catton and Ozeki); and 1 author under 30 (Catton). We Need New Names, Noviolet Bulawayo (Chatto/Little, Brown) The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton (Granta/Little, Brown) Harvest, Jim Crace (Picador/Nan A. Talese) The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury/Knopf) A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (Canongate/Viking) The Testament […]
People, Etc.
At Liza Dawson Associates, Monica Odom has been promoted to associate agent, and also serves as manager of finance and social media development. The recipients of the 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Awards are Tiffany Briere (fiction/nonfiction), Ashlee Crews (fiction), Kristin Dombek (nonfiction), Margaree Little (poetry), Kirstin Valdez Quade (fiction), and Jill Sisson Quinn (nonfiction) The National Book Awards will announce their first-ever longlists exclusively on The Daily Beast over a four-day period beginning September 16 with the Young People’s Literature category (the Poetry longlist will be announced September 17, followed by Nonfiction on the 18th and Fiction on the 19th.) […]
Pinkus’s Lawyer Says Harper Lee Suit Is Settled
Harper Lee’s copyright lawsuit against her former agent Sam Pinkus appears to be reaching an end. Pinkus’s lawyer Vincent Carissimi told the NY Daily News late last week that both sides “have reached a mutually satisfactory resolution” and that “all the concerns have been addressed.” In papers filed in federal court last Thursday, Lee dismissed her claims against co-defendants Lee Ann Winick and Gerald Posner, with each side bearing its own legal costs. Carissimi told the Daily News “we have reached a settlement” and indicated that final papers would be filed soon to dismiss the entire case — though such […]
Forthcoming: Rubio, More Hogarth Shakespeare, and Maybe Ray Kelly
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has a second book on the way from Sentinel, “about the future of the country and the future of the Republican Party,” due after the 2014 mid-term elections. Cindy Adams says that NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly has “met” with Bob Barnett and has decided Barnett is representing Kelly for a book deal, though the NY Post headlines the story as a rumor. Two more authors were announced for The Hogarth Shakespeare line, which launches in 2016. Margaret Atwood will write a prose retelling of The Tempest, and Howard Jacobson will retell The Merchant of Venice. “For […]