After defending herself with a lie in the Hollywood Reporter — “‘not to my knowledge’ did anyone involved with the book engage in an organized strategy to bulk buy at bookstores surveyed by The New York Times to game the best-seller list” — YA author Lani Sarem moves to sister property Billboard with a column that’s supposed…
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At NBC News, Ariella Prince has been promoted to booking producer, handling author bookings across all NBC News programs and platforms (including Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, Megyn Kelly, and their digital properties). For the past seven years, she has worked under Jackie Levin, booking authors for all hours of the Today…
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Ingram Content Group announced a realignment in reporting structure to “help focus efforts in Ingram’s wholesale business and their growing distribution services.” The wholesale purchasing group, led by George Tattersfield, will now report to chief commercial officer Shawn Everson, “aligning our ‘buy side’ with our ‘sell side’ in wholesale.” The shared services sales team, acquired in…
Hillary, For Sale, On Tour
The first dates were announced on Monday for Hillary Clinton’s book tour, which comprises 9 book signings (six of which are in the greater New York metropolitan area) — plus a “Hillary Clinton Live” theater tour to 15 cities, where she promises to “connect with audiences with a story that’s personal, raw, detailed and surprisingly…
Briefs: Clinton Excerpt Recalls Trump As “Creep,” And More
Excerpts from Hillary Clinton‘s forthcoming What Happened were released to Morning Joe and played widely in the media this morning. Recalling the presidential debate shortly after the release of the Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump, Clinton writes: “This is not OK, I thought. It was the second presidential debate and Donald Trump was looming…
Nook Revises Content Policy to Limit/Eliminate Erotica, Starts Terminating Author Accounts
On August 16 Nook Press revised their posted content policy in a way that seems to indicate they will no longer sell self-published erotica. Their definition of excluded “obscene or pornographic material” now “may include content that graphically portrays sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.” They also note “other…