Huffington Posts Book News The new celeblog the Huffington Post launches today with an uncredited lead story highlighting Gerald Posner’s forthcoming SECRETS OF THE KINGDOM: The Inside Story of the Saudi-US Connection, scheduled for publication next week. They say the book cites NSA reports that Saudi Arabia has “a nationwide, self-destruction explosive system composed of […]
Lunch for Friday, May 6
Book Sense June Picks The June picks and notables have been posted online. My wife can certainly vouch for this month’s number one pick — she devoured THE HISTORIAN over spring break and happily declared it one of the most enjoyable books she’s read in a long time. 1. THE HISTORIAN: A Novel, by Elizabeth […]
Lunch for Thursday, May 5
Soft Quarter for Harper As part of News Corp.’s just-released third quarter results, sales at HarperCollins fell 6.5 percent compared to the same period last year, registering $300 million. Profits fell 17 percent, to $30 million for the quarter. The new results come in comparison to a particularly strong quarterly report for Harper a year […]
Lunch for May 4
Sales Down At: Harlequin, Waterstone’s Sales at Harlequin continue to slide, down $7.9 million for the first quarter to $129 million (Canadian), with most of the weakness in North American revenues. Same-store sales at UK bookseller Waterstone’s fell 2.8 percent in the first quarter. The slide comes after what had been a strong pre-Christmas period […]
Lunch for May 3
Server Limbo The good news is that our fast new dedicated server is working wonderfully. The less good news is that, of this morning’s serving, the “DNS records” that tell computers all over the world how to find our new server have not been updated yet. That process is supposed to start imminently — unless […]
Lunch for Monday, May 2
Please Note Some time in the next day or two, we expect to be moving to a new, bigger, dedicated server for PublishersMarketplace. The move will present a variety of improvements for members — once we get there. It’s a bit of an open question exactly when we’ll officially jump from one computer to the […]