Jill Abramson has denied allegations from two journalists that she plagiarized work of other reporters in her new book Merchants of Truth. Michael Moynihan of Vice News provided comparisons on Twitter to multiple passages from Ryerson Review of Journalism, Time Out magazine, the New Yorker, and more that he says she copied. Freelance journalist Ian Frisch posted…
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YA Author Zhao Postpones Blood Heir After Online Controversy
Amélie Wen Zhao’s YA novel Blood Heir, which was due to publish June 4 from Delacorte, has been postponed indefinitely by the author after a controversy in the online YA community. The first in a planned trilogy pitched as Anastasia meets Six of Crows, the sale was reported last January, in a major deal, at auction, with…
Winter Institute Winds Down With Past ABA Presidents in Conversation
Winter Institute wrapped up on Friday with the ABA Past Presidents in Conversation, featuring Becky Anderson, Betsy Burton, Mitchell Kaplan, Gayle Shanks, and Michael Tucker. Much of the session was given over to reminiscence of Winter Institutes past and anecdotes from their shops, but they also discussed changes in bookselling over the years and ongoing challenges….
Bookselling: Barnes & Noble Closes A Houston Store, Plans One for Sarasota
Barnes & Noble’s big 38,700-square-foot store on Westheimer Road in Houston, TX closed on January 12 after 23 years in that location. Separately, the chain will build a new 14,000-square-foot store in the Sarasota, FL-area’s University Town Center, which vp of real estate development Jim Lampassi says is due to open by spring 2020. Meanwhile…
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Caroline Osborn has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as subsidiary rights manager. She was most recently in subsidiary rights at Little, Brown Children’s. Derek Reed has been promoted to senior editor, Currency, Convergent, and Crown Forum. Cami Miller has been promoted to director for mass market sales at Harper Christian. At William Morrow, Eliza Rosenberry has been promoted to senior publicity…
Parneros Formally Disputes BN’s Claim He Was a “Faithless Servant”
Former Barnes & Noble CEO Demos Parneros’ determination to dispute the bookseller’s claim he was a “faithless servant” has now resulted in a formal motion: On December 21, after some scheduling confusion regarding an intended postponement, his counsel filed the motion to dismiss BN’s second counterclaim against him. (As for the other two counterclaims, counsel…