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 […]
Lunch for Tuesday, August 3
Author Tommy Franks, Reporting for Duty General Tommy Franks gave a number of interviews for his just-released book AMERICAN SOLDIER, in which he indicates he expects the U.S. will need to maintain soldiers in Iraq for up to five years. Franks says that President Bush’s appearance on an aircraft carrier under a “Mission Accomplished” banner […]
Lunch for Monday, August 2
Lagardere Gets Hodder Lagardere has indeed made the winning bid for Hodder Headline, paying $406.4 million (which includes the assumption of about $24 million in debt). The unit is Britain’s fourth largest trade publisher, and its second-largest educational publisher. With 2003 sales of $263 million, the multiple is about 1.5 times sales. Over half of […]
Lunch for Thursday, July 28
Please Note Tomorrow is the gala visiting day at my son’s camp, so I’ll be forsaking publishing news for displays of athletic skill and a seven-year-old rendition of a 70s-style performance of “Love Train.” Lunch will resume Monday. Quarto Buys Again, Adding Aurum The Quarto Group announced their second acquisition of the month, purchasing the […]
Lunch for Wednesday, July 28
Yes, Virginia, Norton Will Make Money on the Book The success of Norton’s authorized edition of the 9/11 Commission Report continues to cause befuddlement far and wide. At least today’s NY Times article clears up the notion that the — given their reported sales figures — publisher was going to lose money on the project. […]
Lunch for Tuesday, July 27
Norton Reports Big Sales for Report; Orders Second Printing Norton announced a 200,000-copy second printing for the 9/11 Commission Report yesterday. The publisher now estimates that they sold 350,000 copies through Sunday. (The company previously reported opening day sales that started at a low of 75,000 copies and crept up to 150,000 copies.) BN’s Bob […]