Michael Cader

All Kinds of Jobs Just as busy as our deals page is our terrifically efficient Job Board. With 24 listings in the last 7 days and over 70 in all, we’ve got great openings in all departments and from all over the country. For employers, we provide by far the single-largest audience of book publishing people available online (well over 27,000 a day to be precise) — and we do it at what is by far the lowest price. If you haven’t tried our Job Board since we relocated it to PublishersMarketplace earlier in the year, you’ll be surprised at […]

Please Note I’m out of town with limited access the next couple of days; today’s Lunch is abbreviated, and tomorrow and Wednesday will see something similar or — more likely — no Lunch at all. Links and anything else important will be posted at the PublishersMarketplace home page. People in Tehran Says Nafisi’s Version is “Dated” Azar Nafisi’s READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN “May be a huge bestseller in the United States, but it has yet to be translated into Persian. As a result, almost no Iranians have even heard of the book. Fewer still have read it.” Since Nafisi left […]

That’s A Lot of Jobs With another 3 new posts from yesterday and almost 20 from the last four days, our Job Board remains very active with fresh opportunities. For employers, we provide by far the single-largest audience of book publishing people available online (well over 27,000 a day to be precise) — and we do it at what is by far the lowest price. If you haven’t tried our Job Board since we relocated it to PublishersMarketplace earlier in the year, you’ll be surprised at how efficient and effective it is at reaching people within the industry. Check out […]

That’s A Lot of Jobs The other real news of the day is the big action at our Job Board, where we had a vigorous 11 brand-new postings just yesterday, along with plenty more earlier in the week. For employers, we provide by far the single-largest audience of book publishing people available online (well over 27,000 a day to be precise) — and we do it at what is by far the lowest price. If you haven’t tried our Job Board since we relocated it to PublishersMarketplace earlier in the year, you’ll be surprised at how efficient and effective it […]

RH Makes Rizzoli A Distribution Offer They Couldn’t Resist Random House’s distribution group has finally landed a client of scale, as Rizzoli has informed their current distributor Holtzbrinck that they will shift their business as January 1, 2005. Holtzbrinck Distributed Publishers sales and marketing vp Patti Hughes tells her staff in a memo that, “They thank us for representing them so well over the past 17 years in what was a wonderful partnership and confirm that this change in distribution was purely a financial decision for them.” New NY Head for Avalon; Bergstrom Promoted at S&S; Dempsey to Crown Avalon […]

Rockport Gets Creative Quarto’s Rockport Publishing Group (with includes the illustrated design line Rockport, the mind/body/spirit imprint Fair Winds Press, Quarry Books, RotoVision and Apple Press) has acquired Minneapolis-based Creative Publishers International for $10.8 million in cash and convertible loan notes. CPi is known for their home improvement, home decorating, sewing and crafting, and outdoors-related books, including branded lines with Black & Decker and Singer. The company’s nature, photography and wildlife imprint, NorthWord Press name, and its children’s imprint Two-Can, are not being acquired by Rockport. Rockport CEO Ken Fund says in a statement, “This acquisition marks a major turning […]