Nan Graham has been promoted to svp, publisher of Scribner, reporting to Scribner Publishing Group president Susan Moldow. “As if Nan hadn’t amply proven how deserved this promotion is by her firm hand in shaping the list and staff and insuring the growth of the Scribner imprint over the last eighteen years, her performance of late surely demonstrates that she continues to exercise her singular editorial instincts, abilities, and leadership qualities at the highest levels,” Moldow said in the announcement. “[Graham’s] tireless work and shining insights for every book on the Scribner list have made Nan’s contribution to the success […]
More Best of Lists from Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Barnes & Noble
The Best of 2012 lists continue to stream in (which means we’ll have another update to our “best of the best” master list very soon.) Entertainment Weekly offered its 10 best fiction and nonfiction lists: Fiction Hilary Mantel, BRING UP THE BODIES Adam Johnson, THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON Jess Walter, BEAUTIFUL RUINS Maria Semple, WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE Ben Fountain, BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK Nell Freudenberger, THE NEWLYWEDS John Green, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Gillian Flynn, GONE GIRL Chris Ware, BUILDING STORIES Junot Diaz, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER Nonfiction Katherine Boo, BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS Cheryl […]
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Jennifer Garza has joined the Simon & Schuster publicity department as publicity manager. Previously she worked at Media Connect. Novelist Jennifer Egan and Knopf Doubleday executive editor Erroll McDonald are joining the PEN American Center board of trustees. Ben Fountain won the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction for his novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. The award was presented at a ceremony in New York Tuesday night that also honored New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman with the organization’s Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction.
eNews: Google Books in Russia; eBooks From Time Inc. and USA Today
Google has launched its Google Play store in Russia, which will sell ebooks starting from 49 rubles ($1.59) to customers with an existing Google Wallet account. Time Inc. and USA Today are the latest magazine and newspaper publications, respectively, moving into the ebook market. Time Inc.’s MyRecipes.com is launching a new digital cookbook series with recipes taken from the company’s lifestyle publications Real Simple, Food & Wine, Cooking Light, Southern Living, Sunset, All You and Coastal Living. The first of the digital cookbooks, all priced at $3.99, is “MyRecipes Best-Loved Cookies for Every Occasion.” Meanwhile, USA Today’s first ebook, also released today, is USA TOMORROW, a […]
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Emma Patterson and Emily Forland will join Brandt & Hochman as agents effective January 1. Both Patterson and Forland were previously with the Wendy Weil Agency, and were the two principal agents looking after the agency’s business following Weil’s death in September. Amber Qureshi is joining Seven Stories as associate publisher and executive editor in January. She was most recently an executive editor at Viking. Korea will be the “market focus” country at the London Book Fair in 2014.
Overlook Sues In Attempt to Affirm Right to Publish eBook Edition of Bulgakov’s MASTER AND MARGARITA
Overlook has filed suit against the grandchildren of Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov claiming that the ebook edition of MASTER AND MARGARITA does not violate copyright, Courthouse News reports. (The full complaint is not yet available in any federal court docket.) Overlook acquired the US copyright to Bulgakov’s classic novel (written in 1937 but not published until 1967, more than 25 years after Bulgakov’s death) in 2001 when it bought Ardis Press, which originally commissioned the book’s current English-language translation in 1995. Though Overlook “acknowledges that Bulgakov’s grandchildren own rights to the underlying copyright,” they dispute the heirs’ contention that the […]