Chicago, B.C. I’m really, really tired of chicken. I’m slightly annoyed, in the kindest way, at my friends at Little, Brown, because I can’t get their slogan for the new Malcolm Gladwell book, “Don’t think — BLINK” out of my mind. But Gladwell’s book is also about trusting your intuition, so there you have it […]
BEA Lunch for Friday, June 4
Work in Progress As many of you have noted, I’m posting direct to the PublishersMarketplace home page whenever I can. The downside of this constant activity is that I haven’t had time to be as reflective/analytical as I usually like. And I don’t even have time right now for my usual disclaimers about how hard […]
Lunch for Thursday, June 3
Chicago, B.C. At least psychologically, Bill Clinton’s upcoming keynote address tonight at BEA has turned this year’s convention around, particularly given that the idea of a return to Chicago B.C. (before Bill) was not particularly stirring. Anticipation of the speech continues to dominate press coverage and chatter among attendees; the big question is whether, after […]
Lunch for Wednesday, June 2
Schedule Note I’m off to Chicago shortly. BEA reports will be plentiful, but I’m not certain when we’ll actually be able to send them out via e-mail. Check the PublishersMarketplace.com home page regularly for live updates in between the e-mails. Speaking of the convention, the Saturday political luncheon has gotten considerably more intriguing with the […]
Lunch for Tuesday, June 1
Oprah Picks Anna for Summer Reading Oprah’s Book Club has made Leo Tolstoy’s ANNA KARENINA the summer reading selection. The official designation goes to Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s Penguin Classics translation from 2001. Wendel Finalizes Deal to Buy Editis Publishers Lagardere has confirmed their deal to sell 60 percent of the Editis publishing assets […]
Lunch for Friday, May 28
Ever More Deals Among the 25 or so new deals: a Canadian children’s series selling all over the world (with English language deals still to be finalized), a Vanity Fair writer’s memoir, a cultural history of bridge, big film deals, more from a bestselling fiction author, another Smarty Jones book (with a deal twist), and […]