Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Children’s: Middle grade 2007 California Teacher of the Year and author of […]
People
Melissa Possick will become associate publisher for Random House Trade Paperbacks on April 5, reporting to Jane von Mehren, as Kim Hovey focuses full-time on her role as associate publisher for Ballantine. Possick, who began her career at Random House, is currently director of marketing at Workman. Katy Hershberger has been promoted to senior publicist at St. Martin’s.
Looking Back On Studio
We were interested in Bob Miller’s own take on the Harper Studio experiment, which he offers below: “The Harper Studio experience has been a gratifying and educational one. I think that the large publishing conglomerates of the future should have units devoted to experimentation, and I think we need to keep trying as an industry to find ways to share risks and rewards differently with authors on the one hand and retailers on the other. Authors need to be treated as partners both creatively and financially; booksellers also need to find ways to share the risk, especially on new authors. […]
Briefs
Finally, a day this week without headline news… Among other items, the schedule for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival has been announced. Slate has an interesting video on how easy, and inexpensive, it was to schedule a 30-second ad to run on national television via Google’s TV advertising program. The point is that you can reach television-scale audiences for hundreds of dollars and up. (Starbucks ad must be endured first….)Slate Consistent with their previous position, the Authors Guild advised members regarding recent amendment letters from Random House and HarperCollins “appear to be going to virtually all authors who have […]
BN Head Lynch Takes Over As CEO of Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Just a year after bringing in William Lynch as ceo of Barnes & Noble.com and grooming him for bigger things at the company, this morning it was announced that he will take over as ceo of all of Barnes & Noble, Inc. In a second promotion, chief operating officer Mitchell Klipper moves up to the newly-created position ceo of the retail stores group. Current ceo Steve Riggio will keep the position of vice chairman and remain “actively involved in the company.” In a conference call this morning, chairman Len Riggio said “today’s announcement brings much joy to Steve and me. […]
People, Awards, Distribution and More Announcements
Matt Martz has been promoted to associate editor at St. Martin’s, continuing to report to Kelley Ragland, editorial director of Minotaur. Brigid Pasulka won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for her debut novel A LONG LONG TIME AGO & ESSENTIALLY TRUE. Columbia University awarded the Bancroft history prize to three books: Linda Gordon’s Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits; Woody Holton’s Abigail Adams; and Margaret Jacobs’s White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. Penguin Children’s announced a one-million-copy first printing for the May release of John […]