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Lunch for Wednesday, July 26

July 26, 2006
By Michael Cader

Changing of the Guard at CDS CDS president and co-founder Steve Black is leaving the company “to pursue other interests” following an agreed upon year-long transition, the last of the original team of long-term distribution executives associated with the company. Perseus has hired Sabrina Bracco to rejoin the company next month from Bear Stearns and run the distribution unit, with the title of vp, client services, reporting to Perseus CEO David Steinberger. Bracco worked for Perseus in a variety of roles before going to Bear Stearns, including serving as director of sales operations. CDS Books publisher Roger Cooper now reports […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, July 25

July 25, 2006
By Michael Cader

Bernard Moves On, Saletan Moves Up; New Boss for Penguin UK; and More Personnel News Harcourt Adult publisher Andre Bernard is leaving after ten years at the company to become vice president of the Guggenheim Foundation. Editor-in-chief Becky Saletan, who joined the house two years ago, will take over Bernard’s role as publisher. Also at Harcourt, Peter Horan has joined the company as a publicist, after two years at St. Martin’s. In the UK, Penguin finally will have a dedicated operational executive again. Peter Field, who runs Penguin and Pearson in Australia, is moving to London as chief executive of […]

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Lunch for Monday, July 24

July 24, 2006
By Michael Cader

UC System May Join Google Library Program The University of California is considering joining other academic libraries participating in the library program of Google Book Search, with the board of regents discussing the possibilities at a meeting last week. As the Daily Californian reports, the UC system has over 34 million books that “could be eligible for digitization” under such a program. UC is already a participant in the Open Content Alliance project, which covers just public domain titles, but “books bound by copyright currently make up about 75 to 80 percent of UC collections.” UC director for library planning […]

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Lunch Weekly for Monday, July 23

July 24, 2006
By Michael Cader

Monday, July 24   Our Usual Reminder If for some reason this has reached you even though you are not a paying member of PublishersMarketplace, please visit the link below to join us all the time for complete deal reports and more. Click to register http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/register.shtml Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes […]

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Lunch for Friday, July 21

July 21, 2006
By Michael Cader

Vrai Pynchon The description of Thomas Pynchon’s forthcoming novel AGAINST THE DAY referred to in Slate yesterday, pulled down from Amazon’s official product page but preserved by a site visitor on Amazon’s discussion board, is indeed by the author, confirmed by Tracy Locke at Penguin Press. Locke adds that the Slate piece incorrectly claimed she “disavowed all knowledge” of the post. “I explained to Troy Patterson that I was unaware that any sort of book description had been posted on Amazon and that I’d not seen it — and therefore could not comment on its accuracy.” Amazon’s Sean Sundwall tells […]

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Lunch for Thursday, July 20

July 20, 2006
By Michael Cader

A Flat Quarter for Scholastic Scholastic announced flat sales for their fourth quarter ($334 million in the children’s book publishing and distribution, even with a year ago, and $601 million overall, up $9 million from last year) and lower profits, with net income of $38 million, versus $43 million a year ago. Sales for fiscal 2007 are projected to drop from this year’s $2.28 billion (which included last year’s new Harry Potter) to between $2.1 and $2.2 billion. Total Potter revenue for 2006 was $195 million, up from $20 million the year before. Press Release Uh Oh: Jones’ Idea of […]

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