Simon & Schuster vp, director of children’s sales Mary Marotta will move over on May 5 to become deputy publisher for Aladdin, Little Simon, Simon Pulse and Simon Spotlight, reporting to division president Jon Anderson. Marotta fills the role vacated by Mara Anastas when she moved up to publisher of Aladdin and Simon Pulse. Anderson notes, “Her sales skills coupled with her business acumen are exactly what are needed to take Little Simon, Simon Spotlight, Aladdin and Simon Pulse to the next level in their growth and development.” Jodi Rosoff has joined Grand Central as publicity & marketing director for […]
Archives for April 2014
Tartt Wins Pulitzer
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. The winners in the book categories are: Fiction: The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown) History: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton) Biography: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, by Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) General Nonfiction: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, by Dan Fagin, (Bantam Books) Poetry: 3 Sections, by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press) Drama: The Flick, by Annie Baker Both fiction finalists were also Publishers Lunch Buzz Books, The Son by Philipp Meyer and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, by Bob […]
Authors Guild Challenges Google Fair Use Ruling In Appeal
Last week the Authors Guild formally detailed their appeal of Judge Denny Chin’s November 14, 2013 summary judgment motion in favor of Google, finding that the web giant’s library book-scanning project was protected as “fair use.” The Guild says that the District Court applied “an unprecedented, expansive and erroneous interpretation of the fair use doctrine. The District Court essentially ignored the inherently commercial nature of the Library Project and wrongly determined that the entire program is ‘transformative.’ In doing so, the District Court failed to separately evaluate whether each of Google’s uses, including its reproduction, archival storage and distribution of […]
Forthcoming: Geithner’s Tour Guests, and A New Eggers
Crown announced former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner‘s book tour for STRESS TEST for May, featuring well-known “moderators” at many of his appearances. Notably, they include former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke (in Washington, DC) and former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (in Chicago). Other moderators include Pulitzer–winning author Liaquat Ahamed, Jim Cramer, and Bethany McLean. On June 17 Knopf will publish a newly-announced 208 page novel by Dave Eggers, YOUR FATHERS, WHERE ARE THEY? AND THE PROPHETS, DO THEY LIVE FOREVER? It’s the “story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking answers the only way he knows […]
LAT Awards Honor Ozeki, Fink, Bulawayo, and Rowling; ALA’s Most Challenged
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in ten categories on Friday night. They include: Fiction Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (Viking) First Fiction NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur Books) Current Interest Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial (Crown) Biography Marie Arana, Bolivar: American Liberator (Simon & Schuster) Mystery/Thriller J.K. Rowling aka Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling (Mulholland) Other winners included Ulli Lust (Graphic Novel/Comics); Christopher Clark (History); Ron Padgett (Poetry); Alan Weisman (Science & Technology); and Gene Luen Yang (YA). Next up are the Pulitzer prizes, set to be announced Monday […]
Lockhart’s WE WERE LIARS Tops May’s LibraryReads List
E. Lockhart’s YA novel WE WERE LIARS tops the May LibraryReads list. Also appearing is Laline Paull’s debut novel THE BEES, which like the Lockhart is among the 40 titles you can preview right now in our free ebook, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2014: Spring/Summer. (Paull’s novel made the May Indie Next list as well.) The LibraryReads list also includes: Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See Ruth Reichl, Delicious! Liz Trenow, The Forgotten Seamstress Josh Malerman, Bird Box Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, Bittersweet Molly Wizenberg, Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage Darynda Jones, Sixth Grave on the Edge […]