Tin House Magazine will shut down after its 20th anniversary issue is released in June 2019. Tin House Books and Tin House Workshop will continue, and new original fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will be published at tinhouse.com. Co-founder and editor of the magazine Rob Spillman will be leaving to move on to “new adventures.” Publisher and editor-in-chief Win McCormack said the decision was made “given the current costs of producing a print literary magazine” and thanked Spillman and founding editors Elissa Schappell and Holly MacArthur, as well as the rest of the staff “for their part in creating a vital, […]
Archives for December 2018
Amazon Sting Operation Targets Counterfeit Textbook Sales
Amazon is cracking down on merchants using its site to sell counterfeit textbooks, CNBC reported. A sting operation lead to the suspension of at least 20 merchants — a move intended to send publishers a clear message that Amazon is a serious partner in their effort to prevent the sale of counterfeit product. Booksellers whose accounts were suspended had all shipped counterfeit books to one Clara Dufour – a fake name, perhaps one carefully chosen boost the story’s PR. Amazon soon issued a statement: “These counterfeit books were caught in a test buy program we operate, which is just one […]
Setterfield’s Once Upon a River Tops January Library Reads
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield is top pick for January’s Library Reads. Also on the list is Sofia Lundberg’s The Red Address Book, which is excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler. The rest of the list: An Anonymous Girl, by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen The Au Pair, by Emma Rous The Current, by Tim Johnston The Dreamers, by Karen Thompson Walker My Favorite Half-Night Stand, by Christina Lauren The Suspect, by Fiona Barton Unmarriageable, by Soniah Kamal Watching You, by Lisa Jewell The Golden Tresses of the Dead, by Alan Bradley In An Absent […]
People, Etc.
Marnie Cochran will move over to become executive editor at Harmony and Rodale, starting January 1. She has been at Ballantine for over 10 years. Kerri Kolen has joined Audible as executive editor on their originals team. Most recently she was executive editor at Putnam. Lucille Rettino has been promoted to the new position of vp, associate publisher, director of marketing and publicity for Tom Doherty Associates. In addition to her existing reports, Melissa Singer will report to Rettino in her scheduling/list management capacity while continuing to report to Patrick Nielsen Hayden for editorial work. Rachel Richardson is joining Watson, Little as their […]
Once Again, Court Thoroughly Rejects ReDigi’s Scheme for “Used” Digital Goods Marketplace
Just as a District Court unequivocally and thorough called (now bankrupt) start-up ReDigi’s efforts to establish a scheme and marketplace for reselling “used” copies of copyrighted digital files of music (and thus potentially ebooks, as well as video, games and software) copyright infringement in 2013, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ratified that decision in this cockroach of a legal case. The Appeals Court similarly dismisses without hesitation ReDigi’s various arguments. “Their transfer process” to move the “used” files around inherently “creates a reproduction, and that is a copyright violation,” pure and simple. Their arguments for fair use did […]
People, Etc.
Former Weidenfeld & Nicolson publisher Kirsty Dunseath will become publishing director for Doubleday UK, starting March 25 and reporting to fiction publisher Sarah Adams. As of January 1, Nation Books will be renamed Bold Type Books, as the Nation Institute itself is changing its name to Type Media Center. Jon Krakauer has moved to Gersh for representation (while continuing to work with attorney Becky Hall). And correcting yesterday’s representation item on Rupi Kaur, she remains with Suzanne Brandreth at CookeMcDermid for literary representation; ICM will represent Kaur for film, television and theater. Forthcoming Robert Caro‘s next book is about himself rather than Lyndon Johnson, […]