Tattered Cover Bookstore is in negotiations to open several additional outlets in Denver International Airport. “Yes, we’re hoping to,” owner and founder Joyce Meskis told CBS4. “It’s in the hands of the city at this point.” She added that Tattered Cover would work with Hudson News and take over various airport store locations, which would then be re-branded under Tattered Cover’s name. Greg Smith, the onetime Goldman Sachs executive who resigned in spectacular fashion with a New York Times op-ed last week, is reported by the paper to be shopping for a book deal. Smith, who is being represented by […]
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Kate Lee will leave ICM on April 30 after nearly ten years with the agency. She is also stepping back from book agenting to pursue new opportunities; her clients, who include Jeff Jarvis, Brian Stelter, Charles Finch, and Adam Penenberg, will remain with ICM. Perseus has finally announced, after we reported it in early February, that Writers House has signed on with its Argo Navis author services program, which the agency will offer to its authors looking to distribute their works digitally. “After reviewing many of the digital publishing options available, we concluded that the service provided by Argo Navis […]
Briefs: Early Vonnegut Novella Published as Kindle Single; Patient Says Doctor Violated Her Privacy in 2009 Book
A previously unpublished novella by Kurt Vonnegut, BASIC TRAINING, is available today from RosettaBooks as a Kindle Single for $1.99. The 22,000-word autobiographical novella, “satirizing the military, authoritarianism, and most of the assumed mid-century myths of the family” was originally written in the late 1940s and meant to be published under the pseudonym “Mark Harvey.” In a complaint filed in Rhode Island federal court on March 16 and obtained by Courthouse News, Gabrielle Lisnoff claimed that Dr. Michael Stein, who treated her for drug addiction between 2005 and 2010, violated her privacy by using “her most private, embarrassing, and traumatizing […]
People, Etc: Schnittman to Hachette As Chief Marketing & Sales Officer
Evan Schnittman is joining Hachette Book Group on May 7 in a new executive position of evp, chief marketing and sales officer. He will oversee marketing and sales for all divisions of the company, which includes digital sales and marketing, advertising and promotion, and the market research and analytics group. He has been managing director, group sales and marketing, print & digital at Bloomsbury. HBG ceo David Young says in the announcement, “He brings great marketing and sales experience to his new role, and has worked at the intersection of technology and content for much of his career – expertise […]
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Marysue Rucci will return to Simon & Schuster as vp, editor-in-chief on April 2. She was most recently editorial director at Putnam and originally worked at S&S from 1997 through 2010. “Marysue will be the leader and architect of Simon & Schuster’s fiction list,” said publisher Jonathan Karp in a statement. “She will supervise all our fiction acquisitions, build her own list of authors–both novelists and nonfiction writers–and provide counsel to our editors. Under her guidance we expect to be an industry leader, publishing novels of the highest quality and the greatest appeal. We are all delighted that Marysue is […]
Connecticut Court Ruling Says Scholastic Book Clubs Liable For Sales Tax
One week after issuing third quarter results, Scholastic issued a statement saying that the company needed to revise its earnings report after they were notified that the Connecticut Supreme Court “had reversed an earlier trial court decision and found that Scholastic Book Clubs was liable for sales taxes relating to the operation of its school book clubs business in Connecticut.” The Hartford Courant reported that the unanimous ruling, issued on March 19, said Scholastic “owes $3.2 million plus interest and penalties going back to 1995 to the state,” based on the Book Clubs division having enough of a presence in […]