Apple said today they will announce pricing and begin to take pre-orders for international versions of the iPad starting May 10, for delivery at the end of the month, a one-month delay from the original plan. “We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason–the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far.” The company says that US “demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks.” They […]
People, Etc.
Correcting the rundown of the reporting lines at the new Ballantine Bantam Dell, editorial directors Linda Marrow and Kate Miciak report to publisher Libby McGuire. All other editors will report to new editor-in-chief Jennifer Hershey, who also reports to McGuire. At Shambhala Publications, Sara Bercholz has been promoted to executive vice president and will also become the family owner representative of the independent publisher. In addition, partial ownership will be transferred to Sara and brother Ivan Bercholz. Founder Samuel Bercholz will continue to serve as chairman. She comments: “I’m so pleased to be taking on this position–to continue the tradition […]
Ballantine and Bantam Dell Come Together Under McGuire
Today Random House took the next step set in motion from the companywide reorganization in late 2008, consolidating the Ballantine and Bantam Dell lines into a new Ballantine Bantam Dell group. Libby McGuire will run the merged division as svp, publisher, and Bantam Dell evp, publisher and editor-in-chief Nita Taublib is leaving the company. Random House Publishing Group president Gina Centrello writes to employees “I am saddened that with the organizational changes we are announcing this morning for Ballantine and Bantam Dell” Taublib will “step down.” Calling her a “one-of-a-kind editor and a team-building publisher,” Centrello writes, “she is one […]
More Awards: Commonwealth, Orange First Book
In yesterday’s other award news, Britain’s Rana Dasgupta won the overall Commonwealth Prize for his novel SOLO. The book was honored with the Guardian’s “Not the Booker” prize last year. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has rights to the book in the US, scheduled for publication next year.) Australia’s Glenda Guest won the first novel award for SIDDON ROCK. There’s no public indication of a US deal there yet. Further to yesterday’s IMPAC report, Ross Raisin’s God’s Own Country was published in the UK by Viking–and in the US it was issued as an original trade paperback by Harper Perennail as OUT […]
Distribution, People, Etc.
Soho Press will move their worldwide distribution–including ebooks–to Random House as of January 1, 2011. They have been distributed by Consortium since 2003 Marcy Posner, formerly agent and foreign rights director at Sterling Lord Literistic, has joined Folio Literary Management as an agent specializing in children’s and young adult as well as women’s fiction, romance and serious and commercial non-fiction. Celeste Fine will continue as the foreign rights director. Lottchen Shivers will join Abrams on April 19 in the new position of executive director of adult marketing and publicity, reporting to vp of sales and marketing Mary Wowk. Shivers will […]
Bellevue Press Leads Pulitzers As Harding's "Tinkers" Takes Fiction Honors
The just-announced 2010 Pulitzers (with the official finalists listed underneath the winners: FictionTinkers, by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press) Love in Infant Monkeys, by Lydia Millet (Soft Skull Press)In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin (W.W. Norton & Company) HistoryLords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press) Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, by Gordon S. Wood (Oxford University Press) BiographyThe First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles (Alfred […]