Brian Ulicky has been named publicity manager for Blue Rider Press, starting September 6. He was most recently at Simon & Schuster, also as a publicity manager. Simon & Schuster Children’s has announced a number of new hires and promotions. Ariel Colletti has moved to the Atheneum imprint, where she will remain an assistant editor, and editorial assistant Dani Young will also oversee the coordinating of all three imprints’ paperback conversions, repackages, as well as managing the back ad library. In addition, Amy Rosenbaum has joined as an editorial assistant, having recently completed the Columbia Publishing Course. Penguin rep Ann […]
Borders Gets Court Approval On Auctions for Intellectual Property and Real Estate Leases
Borders received approval from federal bankruptcy court Wednesday to auction its name (as well as the brand names of once-operational subsidiaries Waldenbooks and Brentano’s), trademarks, website, and email lists on September 14, Reuters reported. Borders has enlisted Streambank to manage the sale of Borders’ intellectual property assets, with the firm’s principal David Peress noting in a statement that in addition to its marks and e-commerce assets, “Borders is the holder of a contiguous block of IPv4 addresses which it seeks to transfer to a qualified buyer.” A stalking horse bidder for the IP assets will be named in advance of […]
Attorney Discusses Agency Lawsuit
In an interview on Wednesday, managing partner at law firm Hagens Berman Steve Berman confirmed a number of the inferences in our initial report on their lawsuit against Apple and the Agency Five publishers. Berman admits that for now they have no actual evidence of collusion and no information beyond what is already well-known publicly and outlined in their complaint. But he believes that provides a sufficiently “plausible allegation…that there was a conspiracy” to get a judge’s approval to go forward with the case and compel discovery. (Berman also has no direct knowledge of the civil investigations into the same […]
Harper Praises Children’s Results; US eBooks Were 12 Percent for the Year
News Corp. reported fourth quarter earnings after the close of the market on Wednesday, and per the new standard there was no specific mention of either HarperCollins or book publishing. The larger publishing division–which is dominated by the company’s newspapers–had a good performance despite public controversy, with sales up $225 million and segment operating income rising $74 million. Harper said in a brief statement that it “ended the year with a profitable quarter and exceeded its plan for the year.” They say the children’s division enjoyed “its second best ever” year. eBook sales were “approximately 12 percent of sales in […]
As Promised, Kindle Launches HTML5 Reading App
Amazon launched their Kindle Cloud Reader today, an HTML5 reading app that works through web browsers both online and offline. By using the browser, the app can work on iPads through Safari (as long as they are running iOS4 and higher). It works on all computer-based versions of Safari, and Google’s Chrome as well. It does not currently work on iPhones, but the company says it “will be available on additional web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, the BlackBerry PlayBook browser, and other mobile browsers, in the coming months.” For iPad users, the app includes an “integrated, touch optimized store,” […]
Washington Post Eliminates Book Editor Job, Moves Most Staff to Style Section
A reorganization of the “structure and staffing” of various weekly feature sections at the Washington Post will eliminate the position of Book World Editor entirely. That job is currently held by Rachel Shea, who has run the group for the past two and a half years. She has the option of applying for the few other jobs open at the newspaper. Most Book World staff, including fiction editor Ron Charles and the current assistant editors, will report to the paper’s Style section. But nonfiction editor Steve Levingston will report to Outlook, where the non-fiction reviews are published. Executive editor Marcus Brauchli writes in […]