The NYT Magazine has a big profile of Norman Rush, running in advance of the September 10 release of SUBTLE BODIES. The AP provides an advance look at the work of their own reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman included in the forthcoming September 3 release ENEMIES WITHIN: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America.” They lead: “The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Designating an […]
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Sourcebooks Makes Their Biggest Acquistion Yet
Earlier this summer Sourcebooks acquired Simple Truths, a nearly $10 million publisher you’ve probably never heard of — and until recently, Sourcebooks founder and ceo Dominique Raccah had not heard of them either, even though Simple Truths is based a few blocks away from Sourcebooks in Naperville, IL. (They were brought together by a local magazine.) One reason Simple Truths is little-known inside trade publishing, and a big reason Sourcebook was interested in the company, is that nearly all of their book sales are made directly, online through their own site and through corporate sales. Simple Truths publishes motivational and […]
Briefs
Dan Crissman has been promoted to senior editor at The Overlook Press. Amy Hatvany‘s OUTSIDE THE LINES is Costco’s “Pennie’s Pick” for September. The Northern and Southern California Independent Bookseller’s Associations have come to the end of their IndieGoGo fundraising campaign for the planned California Bookstore Day — to be convened Saturday May 3, 2014. While they raised less than half the stated funding goal, their page promises that “CBD is definitely happening!”
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Having overseen McGraw-Hill Education during its spinoff from McGraw-Hill to its standalone status as a private company owned by Apollo Global Management, ceo Lloyd G. “Buzz” Waterhouse, 61, will retire by the end of the year. He’s been in the post only since June 2012. Spokesman Daniel Sieger told the WSJ Waterhouse is stepping down for “a combination of personal and professional reasons,” but will remain on the board. A search is underway for a replacement. On Monday Crown “inadvertently” fed out catalog data indicating a May 6, 2014 pub date for former Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner‘s memoir and a working title […]
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Based on two anonymous sources, Shane Salerno’s forthcoming movie about the late J.D. Salinger and the tie-in book SALINGER co-written by Salerno and David Shields asserts that the late author instructed his estate to publish at least five posthumous books, “authorizing a specific timetable” for publication running from 2015 through 2020. The NYT says the books are described as including “a novel set during World War II and based on his first marriage to Sylvia Welter, and a novella modeled on his own war experiences.” A story collection called THE FAMILY GLASS would expand previously published stories about the Glass […]
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Christine Munroe recently joined Kobo as US Manager for Kobo Writing Life. Previously she was a scout at Mary Anne Thompson Associates. In addition, Diego Marano has been named UK Manager for Kobo Writing Life. Previously he was a digital content acquisitions manager at Waterstones. Jenny Choy will join Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as senior manager, school & library marketing on September 16. Previously she was Manager, school & library marketing at Candlewick Press. At the Edinburgh Book Festival Ian Rankin announced he will take a year off, the Scotsman reports, after finishing the manuscript of the next […]