Macmillan and Flatiron Books have now announced what we couldn’t put on the record in May when reporting Amy Einhorn‘s impending departure from Putnam because none of the principals would confirm it at the time. She will join Flatiron Books as svp and publisher on July 21. Macmillan ceo John Sargent notes that “Flatiron Books, with Bob Miller’s great expertise in non-fiction and Amy’s great talent in fiction, is now a full-spectrum new publishing company with tremendous potential.” Miller, Flatiron’s president, says in the announcement, “While our original plan was to publish non-fiction, forming this partnership offers us an irresistible way to […]
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Camille McDuffie is leaving her position as president of Goldberg McDuffie Communications to join the newly-created Columbia Global Reports as publisher, under director Nicholas Lemann. It’s a Columbia University-based publishing project “dedicated to the production of sustained, original reporting and analysis on under-reported global issues for audiences that extend beyond the academy,” and they will produce four to six short books a year, for publication beginning in fall 2015. Also joining the unit as editor is Jimmy So, who was a culture and books editor at The Daily Beast. At William Morrow, Jessica Williams has been promoted to editor. Heather Alexander […]
New Penguin Random House Logo Has Neither A Penguin Nor A House
The quest for a new Penguin Random House logo and brand identity has led not to one mark, but to 250. Neither the penguin nor the house logo won this contest; in fact, both have been left aside in favor of a single “wordmark” proclaiming “Penguin Random House” in type only. (The distinctive Penguin orange does live on as stripes alongside the words, and in some backgrounds.) The “corporate wordmark” is designed to live in harmony alongside all of the company’s existing 250 imprint and divisional logos and trademarks in a “brand system” that works for PRH units around the […]
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Former Atlantic Books editor-in-chief Ravi Mirchandani will join Pan Macmillan’s Picador as associate publisher on September 1, reporting to publisher Paul Baggaley. Founder and president of 800-CEO-READ Jack Covert retired on May 30, thirty years after he started the business books company. In a note on his blog last week Seth Godin remarked: “Jack Covert is one of the most important people in my little village of book publishing, a single individual outside the normal circles of New York, someone who cares and does something about it. Jack Covert relentlessly sees possibility when other people are ready to shrug their shoulders […]
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On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of NYT reporter and author James Risen, letting stand an Appeals Court ruling that he must testify as to whether former CIA officer James Sterling was the source of leaked, classified information Risen used in his 2006 book STATE OF WAR: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. (The Court’s decision is in line with the full Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which had declined to hear Risen’s appeal by a 13-to-1 vote.) Risen has said he will go to jail rather than testify. Similarly, Attorney […]
At BEA: Isaacson On Collaboration; Patterson On Amazon/Hachette, Again; and More
Walter Isaacson discussed his forthcoming book THE INNOVATORS with Slate publisher Jacob Weisberg Friday morning at BEA. The book, which traces the lineage of technological innovation from Ada Lovelace (“I didn’t know much about her until my daughter introduced me”), Charles Babbage and Alan Turing to the founders of Intel to Twitter’s Ev Williams, was an antidote to his biography of Steve Jobs. “Almost every great innovator in the book had a great collaborator,” Isaacson said, adding he wanted to show “three to four great types of leaders” as opposed to the singular, uncompromising vision of Jobs. “People would come […]