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 […]
Lunch for Tuesday, April 19
Neumann to Leave FBF Early Ever since the Frankfurt Book Fair declined to renew Volker Neumann’s contract and appointed Jürgen Boos to replace him, it was considered doubtful that Neumann would serve out his contract, scheduled to run through the end of 2005. Now that Boos has started his job as president of the Fair […]
Lunch for Monday, April 18
Oprah’s Magazine Adds Books The Oprah Magazine will produce an annual series of hardcover books, beginning with LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews and Inspiration from O, in partnership with Oxmoor House. They’ll push hard in direct mail marketing and sell to the trade through their Sunset Books and Leisure […]