Herz Launches Small Imprint Doubleday Broadway’s Suzanne Herz will become publisher of a new imprint for the house, Flying Point Press, focusing on popular culture and fiction and aiming to publish up to six books a year. Herz will “work closely with senior editor Phyllis Grann” and other members of the Doubleday Broadway team. The […]
Lunch for Tuesday, April 26
Apple Retaliates for Wiley Bio Wiley says that Apple Computer “told us that our technology books were immediately being pulled from their Apple retail stores,” the company’s Kitt Allan says, “in apparent retaliation for the upcoming publication of a biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs,” the San Jose Mercury News reports. The paper says the […]
Lunch for Monday, April 25
RH Buys Half of Scottish Publisher Random House UK has taken a fifty percent stake in Scottish nonfiction publisher Mainstream. Bill Campbell and Peter Mackenzie will continue as joint managing directors of the company, founded 27 years ago, and it will continue to operate from Edinburgh. Random UK’s Ian Hudson and Brian Davies will join […]
Lunch for Friday, April 22
Bologna Report Publishing News has a long overview on the recent Bologna Book Fair, reporting a steady show with few big stories. “While still, to all intents, a fiction fair, it was noticeable, almost wherever you went, that publishers are not giving up on picture books. Despite a market, particularly in the US, that appears […]
Lunch for Thursday, April 21
Suit Alleges BN Publishing Showed More than Bad Manners with Social Savvy Books Boston-based etiquette instructor/entrepreneur Judith Ré and her trademarked Social Savvy business are in a four-count trademark infringement battle with Barnes & Noble Publishing, the Boston Globe’s Alex Beam reports, with a court hearing scheduled for May 4. Ray contends that as soon […]
Lunch for Wednesday, April 20
Bad News from Borders Yesterday the bookseller revised downward their sales and earnings guidance for the fiscal first quarter of 2005, ending later this month. Same-store sales at the superstores have declined 0.8 percent so far (and are down 3 percent at Walden), and they expect to record a loss for the quarter of .06 […]