Globe Pequot has purchased two office buildings in Essex, CT. The company, currently located in Guilford, CT, will move into the 7,000 square foot space this summer after renovation.
Archives for February 2022
Judge Questions Maryland and AAP
The AAP and the state of Maryland appeared before Federal Judge Deborah L. Boardman Monday morning for an extensive hearing on the AAP’s motion for a preliminary injunction blocking the state’s law on library licensing of digital text. After about an hour of questions directed at the attorney for Maryland, the court took a break at 12:20 before pressing the AAP about their ability to meet the stringent legal conditions for a preliminary injunction. So this is an interim report that we will update later today on our site. Judge Boardman made it clear that she had significant questions about […]
Esper Memoir To Be Published With “Minimal Redactions”
Former secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper’s memoir A Sacred Oath, about his experience working under the Trump administration, will be published by William Morrow in May with “minimal redactions,” after the Department of Defense reversed its decision to block sections that contained information they claimed was classified. Esper sued the DOD in November, claiming the agency redacted “multiple words, sentences, and paragraphs from approximately sixty pages” with “no written explanation” to justify the deletions. Following the Pentagon’s announcement that it had reversed its decision, Esper dropped the lawsuit. Esper’s lawyer, Mark S. Zaid, said in a statement, “The prepublication […]
This Wednesday’s Live Discuss Guest: Editor Sara Birmingham
Join Discuss online at this Publishers Marketplace link Wednesday, February 9 at noon Eastern for an AMA with Sara Birmingham, editor at Ecco. To participate in Discuss, just sign in and use the “reply” button to type your questions or comments, and Sara will post back.
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Noreen Herits has been promoted to vp, executive director, publicity & media strategy at Random House Children's.
Obituaries: Jason Epstein Dies At 93
Editor and innovator Jason Epstein, 93, died on Friday at home on Sag Harbor, his daughter Helen Epstein confirmed to the NYT. Creator of Anchor Books when he was 25, longtime editorial director at Random House, and co-creator of The New York Review of Books and the Library of America, the NYT calls him “the editor, author and publishing visionary who introduced the quality paperback to American readers.” As the paper notes, “He officially retired in 1999 but continued to edit books into his 80s.” Penguin Random House said in a statement: “We mourn the passing of our extraordinary, pathfinding […]