Last August Crown inadvertently fed catalog data to Edelweiss indicating that former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s forthcoming book would be titled STRESS TEST, and was set for May 6, 2014 publication. Crown quickly indicated that was an error, calling the information “an internal working title and placeholder publication date.” So today they made the same title official: STRESS TEST: Reflections on Financial Crises, by Timothy F. Geithner will go on sale May 13. The jacket is viewable at a new web site, along with a five-paragraph statement from the author on the home page: “Two administrations—one Republican, one Democratic, with […]
Archives for February 2014
Forthcoming: A Real Banker, and A Funny One
Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke announced to the AP that he wants to write a book about the financial crisis of 2008 and the recession that followed it: “I want people to understand what we knew, when we knew it, how we made decisions and how we dealt with the enormous economic uncertainty.” Bernanke “expects to begin meeting with publishers within the next several weeks.” As you prepare, you can review Princeton University Press’s collection of a lecture series by Bernanke on the same topic, published a year ago. Separately, a page-one 1,300-word investigation by the NYT reveals that […]
Briefs: Holland’s Polare Bookstores in Bankruptcy; EC Review Delays Anti-Free Book Shipping Bill in France
Dutch bookstore chain Polare declared bankruptcy Monday afternoon. Less than a month ago, Polare temporarily closed its stores and suspended online sales as part of what they said was a “strategic organization” to stem ongoing financial woes. NLTimes reports the bankruptcy was “necessary to pay overdue wages” and that employees are guaranteed to receive their wages for a maximum of 6 weeks, paid by the Employment Insurance Agency (UWV.) Seven of Polare’s stores are also understood to have attracted interest from outside buyers, while five employees of the company’s store in Rotterdam have started a crowdfunding campaign to buy it from […]
Apple Asks For Next eBook Trial(s) to be Moved Back to California, Texas
Apple has not been doing well in New York’s Southern District under Judge Denise Cote, so the company is trying a last-minute effort to get the damages trial moved to a different venue. Or rather, split into two venues. They want the judicial panel for multidistrict litigation to return the consumer class action suits to the Northern District of California — where many of the suits were originally filed, and where Apple is located — and they ask for the states’ suit to be returned to the Western District of Texas, where it was first filed by the Texas Attorney […]
People, Etc.
Editor-in-chief of Ace and Roc Books Ginjer Buchanan announced that she will retire in March 2014, exactly 30 years after she was hired by the Berkley Publishing Group, now a division of Penguin Random House. Berkley president and publisher Leslie Gelbman notes: “During her thirty years with Ace and Roc, Ginjer was essential in growing our science fiction and fantasy list and launching the careers of several bestselling authors. Her love for the genre and books in general and dedication to her authors is unparalleled, and she’s a key reason Ace/Roc is one of the preeminent science fiction-fantasy publishers.” Cara Bedick has joined […]
Small Investor/Agitator Touts Unfinanced “Proposal” to Buy Control of Barnes & Noble Or Nook
Michael Glickstein’s G Asset Management — by all outward indications a one-man shop — has been agitating the Barnes & Noble board to increase shareholder value since 2011 without much success, but on Friday he discovered the power of a press release and put himself on the map. Put on the wire early Friday afternoon, G Asset Management’s announcement touted their “proposal” to acquire a controlling stake in all of Barnes & Noble or, failing that, the “Nook segment,” which does not exist currently as a freestanding piece. This is not an actual bid, or even a formal offer. G Asset […]