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Archives for March 2014

People, Etc.

March 31, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

At Crown Business, Ayelet Gruenspecht has been promoted to marketing manager, while Megan Perritt moves up to publicity manager for the imprint as well as for Crown Forum. In addition, associate publisher for Crown Forum and Three Rivers Press Campbell Wharton will take on an additional role in project directing Crown Business campaigns on a […]

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Authors and Editors

March 31, 2014
By Michael Cader

Author Michael Lewis garners a lot of attention for the release today of FLASH BOYS (including this excerpt in the NYT Magazine). He tells NY Magazine he finished the manuscript two months ago. “Lewis says he turned down large advances to remain with his longtime editor, Norton head Starling Lawrence, and for his last two books, he’s taken no book advance at all. ‘I […]

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Judge Cote Certifies Consumer Class, Excludes Much of Apple’s Expert Witness Testimony

March 30, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

Late Friday afternoon Judge Denise Cote issued two rulings in the ongoing ebook antitrust case. The first finally grants class certification for the consumers who first sued Apple and the Agency Five publishers back in 2011 and officially sought certification last October, in an 86-page order. (The publishers, of course, settled, and consumers started seeing the […]

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People, Etc.

March 28, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

Diana Gill will join Ace and Roc Books on April 1 as executive editor, reporting to Susan Allison. Previously she was executive editor at William Morrow, where she ran the US branch of HarperVoyager for the past 12 years. Jacky Klein will join Phaidon Press in June as commissioning editor, Art, working primarily out of […]

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eNews: Verso’s eBook/Print Bundle; DropBox Rumored to Buy ReadMill; and More

March 28, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

Verso Books will sell its books, both print and digital, direct on its website as of April 8, and will also offer print/ebook bundles for all new titles and “hundreds” of recent ones (free postage is also included.) Verso is working with Booxstream on DRM, and each ebook will be visibly watermarked. In a statement […]

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Diesel eBooks Will Shut Down By Month’s End

March 27, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

Diesel eBooks finally confirmed that it is shutting down by the end of the month, just shy of its tenth anniversary. The news was made more obvious as a result of the company’s March 14 lawsuit (under the “new” name of Lavoho, Inc.) against Apple and the “Agency Five” publishers last week for effectively ruining […]

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