Up, Up and Away A quick post brought to you from Terminal 3 at Heathrow. Without meaning to be persistently negative, but simply reflecting what we hear, even my driver out to the airport has been hearing from people all day how reluctant they are about the move to ExCel. And he pegs the cab ride from Heathrow over to Anaheim-Upon-Thames as a good hour-and-a-half to two hours. London’s a great show, the move is a fact of life, and of course publishing people can excel to focusing on the negative. But it sure feels like the community needs a […]

Agency Moves (Or Not) Following the recent dissolution of agency Burnes & Clegg, Sarah Burnes will join The Gernert Company on April 1. Burnes’ clients and projects singled out in an announcement include Mary Guterson’s WE ARE ALL FINE HERE, the GOSSIP GIRL series, and Mary Kay Zuravleff’s forthcoming THE BOWL IS ALREADY BROKEN. In London, Publishing News made agency speculation their front-page story. Canada’s Westwood Creative Artists, having recently ended their sub-agenting relationship with A P Watt, is evaluating options. Bruce Westwood says, “We can work from Canada, we can set up in London, or we can buy something. […]

Now Available As noted yesterday, our new and amazingly useful print version of over 3,000 deals from 2004 is now available for sale. For a short period of time, PublishersMarketplace members can buy it at a special discount. And if you’re at the London Book Fair, as noted before, you can check out the first copies by visiting our friends at these booths: American Collective Stand BEA Frankfurt Book Fair Deal Book page Business in London In charmingly traditional (and to me endlessly amusing) fashion, attendance at the London Book Fair rose the second day now that it’s Monday, a […]

Now Available Our new and amazingly useful print version of over 3,000 deals from 2004 is now available for sale. For a short period of time, PublishersMarketplace members can buy it at a special discount. And if you’re at the London Book Fair, as noted before, you can check out the first copies by visiting our friends at these booths: American Collective Stand BEA Frankfurt Book Fair Deal Book page From London It’s rare in life that you get to experience “the good old days” as they are happening, but that was very much sense as the London Book Fair […]

On the Page and In Your Mail As noted yesterday, since we’ve already reported a lot of “London deals,” we’re hoping to send out the weekly round-up tonight before traveling. As another reminder, you can check out the first copies of our jam-packed BOOK DEALS: 2004 in London at these booths: American Collective Stand BEA Frankfurt Book Fair As of Sunday, PublishersMarketplace members can take advantage of a short window for discounted copies through this page at our site. Deal Book info page Departures: Radwell Leaves the Club; Wicker Leaves Vista; Travel Publisher Lacks Leck In the clearest indication yet […]

Notes We’re headed for another week of well over a hundred new deal reports — to help those of you buying and selling at London, we will try to dispatch the handy weekly round-up on Friday night before getting on a plane ourselves. Of course if you think the weekly reports are handy, you really need to check out the jam-packed DEAL BOOK: 2004 book that we announced yesterday. As noted, sample copies will be on display at LBF in the American Collective Stand, BEA, and Frankfurt Book Fair booths. We should be open for web orders by then, too. […]