In August the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission proudly hailed an unusual deal with Little, Brown for “authorized” publication of their report about the 2008 collapse that would provide the government with both an advance and royalties. Reports at the time said that five of the six largest publishers had bid, and Little, Brown was selected for “the intangibles.” But the WSJ reported yesterday that the original publishing deal “failed to close” for undisclosed reasons. Will Lippincott at Lippincott Massie McQuilkin, who co-agented the report with Joe Spieler of the Spieler Agency, confirms that Public Affairs will publish the report in […]
Deals
Open Road and Cursor Announce Lists, and More Imprint News
Open Road has announced four titles that they will publish this fall as ebook originals: Jonathon King’s MIDNIGHT GUARDIANS, the sixth book in his Edgar Award- winning Max Freeman mystery series (along with ebook versions of the first five Freeman mysteries and two standalone novels)Mary Glickman’s first novel, HOME IN THE MORNINGGenre veteran Alan Dean Foster’s memoir PREDATORS I HAVE KNOWNEntertainment journalist Jo Piazza’s CELEBRITY INC. With world rights to all the titles, publisher Brendan Cahill will represent publishing rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with co-founder Jeff Sharp representing film/TV rights. Separately, Richard Nash‘s long-discussed start-up Cursor may actually […]
Pre-Frankfurt Analysis: Where the Deals, and Aren’t
With the Frankfurt Book Fair officially opening on Wednesday (and dealmaking already underway at the Frankfurter Hof), “mood”-watchers like the Guardian are already proclaiming last year’s recession-induced “austerity” over. Publisher of Harper UK’s Blue Door Patrick Janson Smith says, “People have short memories. It was instant panic last year but now it’s back to business.” But the schedule has also affected the key pre-Frankfurt selling season. With a late Labor Day followed quickly by the Jewish holidays and an earlier-than-usual Frankfurt itself, there have been barely a few “shopping weeks” prior to this year’s fair. We decided to look past […]
Unusual Deal for Financial Crisis Report Gives Treasury An Advance and Royalties
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and its staff journalist Matt Cooper have made a deal with Little, Brown for “authorized” publication of their report about the 2008 collapse on December 15 in both print and digital versions. As is usually the case with government documents, the publisher’s version will compete with a free downloadable version available on government web sites. But everything else about the deal, which the commission announced in a terse statement last week, is less traditional. As the Washington Post writes, the government retained two agents–Will Lippincott at Lippincott Massie McQuilkin and Joe Spieler of the Spieler […]
People
Diane Salvatore, who left the magazine world briefly to serve as publisher of Broadway Books, is becoming editor-in-chief of Rodale’s Prevention magazine. Richard Price will write a new series of detective thrillers that Holt will publish starting in fall 2011 under the pen name Jay Morris.
WaPo, PublicAffairs Team Up For Book on Health Care Reform
The Washington Post announced this morning that its guide to new health care reform legislation passed by the House on Sunday night will be published by PublicAffairs in April, first as an e-book and shortly thereafter in paperback format. According to the release, LANDMARK: The Inside Story of America’s New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All “will provide a comprehensive look at the provisions of the bill as it emerges from the Senate” and “feature exclusive interviews with senior White House officials, lawmakers, lobbyists and industry leaders.”