Great Jobs, Great Audience, Great Deal With five new postings since yesterday and 78 in all — close to our highest ever — our Job Board remains vibrant even in the dog days of August. We think the explanation is pretty simple: We deliver by far the largest audience of people in the book publishing […]
Lunch for Tuesday, August 10
Personnel News Andrew Mandel will join Farrar Straus as evp and deputy publisher on September 20. He will be responsible for “Finance, operations, production, sales, and marketing functions, and will work closely with all departments to enhance FSG’s performance.” For the past eight years he has been at Workman Publishing, currently serving as general manager. […]
Lunch for Monday, August 9
Da Vinci Book Helps Drive Sales at Nelson Thomas Nelson reported first quarter sales of $49 million, up 17 percent from a year before, with income of $1.9 million, up from $1.1 million a year ago. CEO Sam Moore says that BREAKING THE DA VINCI CODE was one of two “top performers” for the quarter. […]
Lunch for Friday, August 6
Their Plans Becomes Our Plan PublicAffairs was preparing to print a paperback book, KERRY/EDWARDS: Their Plans and Promises, promoted as “delineating issue-by-issue the promises and the plans of the Kerry/Edwards ticket,” for release at the end of August. But yesterday the publisher announced that they were dropping that book of “position papers” in favor of […]
Lunch for Thursday, August 5
CIA Asks Author/Agent to Tone Down the Talking The author of IMPERIAL HUBRIS — revealed to be Michael Scheuer, but still called anonymous by the NYT — has “been ordered to sharply curtail his interviews with news organizations in connection with the book, his publisher said on Wednesday.” Editor Christina Davidson tells the paper that […]
Lunch for Wednesday, August 4
Fall Book to Skewer Musical Greats Herbert Breslin, longtime publicity agent or manager to the likes of Plácido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Itzhak Perlman, Leonard Slatkin and Georg Solti, has an autobiography coming in October from Doubleday that the Washington Post is ready to call, “Likely [to] be one of the most talked-about musical […]