As you would expect, headlines fueled the party conversations the night before the opening of the London Book Fair, focused on the new ceo of Simon & Schuster and the war in the Middle East. The traditional Monday night WME and Harper parties buzzed with news of Greg Greeley’s appointment, with eyebrows raised over his background at Amazon and how long he will stay in the job until KKR exits their investment, already two-and-a-half years into their “base case” of five to seven years of ownership. Meanwhile, in the virtual world, people were obsessing over New York Magazine’s What Do […]
