Hasan Altaf joins the Paris Review as managing editor next Tuesday. Most recently, he was the managing editor at Harper’s Magazine. Fiction writer, poet, and musician Christian Keifer takes the new role of West Coast editor. Additionally, an expanded roster of advisory editors incorporates former poetry editor Robyn Creswell, plus Saskia Hamilton and Christopher Merrill. […]
Archives for August 2018
Legal: On Demand Publisher Challenges Federal Deposit Demand
The Institute for Justice is representing small, on-demand publisher Valancourt Books in a federal lawsuit challenging the US Copyright Office’s deposit demand, which requires providing two free copies of anything copyrightable. Valancourt, which has a list of about 400 reprints of out-of-print titles — “all of which contain at least some new material, like scholarly […]
People, Etc.
Lily Yengle has joined Bloomsbury Children’s as marketing manager. She was previously publicist at Penguin Children’s. Maria Mann has joined Page Street Publishing as publicity and marketing associate. Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be the keynote speaker at the opening press conference of the Frankfurt Book Fair, on October 9. At the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, […]
Sales Slide at Penguin Random House On Softer Dollar and More
Bertelsmann reported results for the first half of the year on Thursday, with sales at Penguin Random House+ (the PRH joint venture, plus the separate Random House Germany) registering €1.482 billion, down €48 million (or 3.1 percent) overall from a year ago. Operating EBITDA fell further, to €171 million, down 35 million (or 17 percent). […]
Barnes & Noble: Lots of Questions
Former Barnes & Noble ceo Demos Parneros’s fiery lawsuit against the company for defamation and breach of contract raises lots of currently unanswerable questions. We are readers so here, at least, are some documents for you to scrutinize: – First is the full 19-page complaint from Parneros, which we posted yesterday – There is Parneros’s […]
People, Etc.
Zachary Schisgal has joined Wiley as senior acquisitions editor. Florian Illies will become publisher of Rowohlt in Germany as of January 1, 2019, succeeding Barbara Laugwitz. Illies is the author of Generation Golf and 1913, and is currently the managing director of the auction house Grisebach. Picks The September Pennie’s Pick at Costco is The Dinner […]