Notes Today’s a travel day, so this post is a little rushed. Lunches may be a little late the rest of this week. As you may know, we’ve made lots of subtle but important improvements to PublishersMarketplace features this summer — faster deal searching and the ability to use multiple keywords, the great new deal […]
Lunch for Tuesday, August 17
Khouri Speaks Norma Khouri has admitted to some measure of fabrication in a televised interview. She now maintains she lived in Jordan for 12 years. “I had lived in Chicago and I lived in Greece and I have lived in Jordan. When I wrote the memoir I chose to write only about my time in […]
Lunch for Monday, August 16
E-Book Pioneers Launch Audio Venture The team that created the Palm Reader software and built that platform into the most successful e-book venture so far will launch a new audiobook company that takes advantage of the latest standards at the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston on Labor Day. Mike Segroves serves as president and […]
Lunch for Friday, August 13
Both Khouri Books Pulled For Good Random House Australia has made their withdrawal of Norma Khouri’s FORBIDDEN LOVE permanent, and has dropped her second book as well, originally scheduled for publication this fall. Managing director Margaret Seale comments: “It’s just very disappointing that we haven’t had the evidence to prove to us that the allegations […]
Lunch for Thursday, August 12
Great Jobs, Great Audience, Great Deal With another 4 new postings since yesterday we’re now up to 80 in all — close to our highest ever — as our Job Board remains vibrant even in the dog days of August. And why not. We deliver by far the largest audience of people in the book […]
Lunch for Wednesday, August 11
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 […]