Crain’s reports that Richard Pine at Inkwell Management in the US and Mark Lucas to Lucas Alexander Whitley in the UK are auctioning a book by amateur singing sensation Susan Boyle. (The agents did not respond to queries from Crain’s.)Crains (if you click through from Google News you won’t get stopped at the reg wall) Celebrity bodyguard Mickey Brett’s book proposal about a variety of famous clients, including Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, makes its way to the NY Daily News, though the book itself will not find its way to store shelves. After legal threats to block any publication, […]
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LAT Festival: Prizes, and Wind Damage
The Los Angeles Times kicked off their weekend festival of books with the naming of their annual book prize winners, which included: Fiction: Marilynne Robinson, HOMEFirst Fiction: Zoe Ferraris, FINDING NOUFYoung Adult: Terry Pratchett, NATIONCurrent Interest: Barton Gellman, ANGLER: The Cheney Vice Presidency Though this year’s awards presentation was downsized to the newspaper’s offices and not open to the public, LA Observed says “LAT publisher Eddy Hartenstein pledged publicly that the Times Book Prizes would continue next year, and at least some judges were already asked to return.” On Saturday afternoon, heavy winds knocked down a scaffolding on the UCLA […]
PM Reports Record Traffic In Q1
We’ve been busy reporting everyone else’s quarterly numbers, so we thought we would share a few of our own. Most notably, Publishers Marketplace has been hitting all-time high traffic numbers for the entire quarter. For March our true page views (leaving out hundreds of thousands of views from search engines, spiders, etc.) were over 1.2 million–with both page views and unique visitors up 32.5 percent over a year ago. And traffic was building throughout the quarter; up 12 percent in January, and 16 percent in February, and 20 percent overall for the quarter. We think a lot of it is […]
ABA Stays the Course Naming Teicher New CEO
The ABA has picked longtime chief operating officer Oren Teicher to succeed Avin Domnitz as the organization’s CEO. President Gayle Shanks writes to members, “His encyclopedic knowledge of everything associated with ABA’s past and current programs, coupled with his thoughtful and insightful analysis of how ABA can meet our future challenges, combined to make him our clear choice.” Shanks also notes that “as recommended several years ago by our Governance Review Committee, details surrounding the new CEO contract will be made available to the membership after they are finalized. The Board wants to assure the membership that the terms of […]
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USAir Captain Chesley Sullenberger will appear at BEA on Saturday afternoon, speaking from one of the convention’s new floor-based Author Stages and then signing a promotional piece for his forthcoming book from William Morrow. Globe Pequot group publisher Gary Krebs is leaving the company, and will join McGraw-Hill Professional as a group publisher next month. Author of THE MEANING OF NIGHT and THE GLASS OF TIME Michael Cox, 60, died Tuesday morning after a long battle with cancer.
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Granta continues to revamp their web site, now featuring articles and interviews that will not appear in the print magazine. They have finally added RSS feeds as well. Helen Chase, wife of William Chase and a former editor of Chase’s Calendar of Events died after a battle with Parkinson’s Disease. She co-managed Chase’s Calendar from its inception in 1957 until McGraw-Hill acquired it in 1989, and remained involved in the publishing process “right up until the last day of her life.” On April 6 John Mackey will join Oxford University Press as the Barnes & Noble national accounts manager. He […]