The Latest Deals and New Features More deals already, including Bill Mechanic’s high six-figure fiction buy, another film buy for Walter Dean Myers, a home for the ex-Eagles guitarist, a high-priced deal for novelist Dani Shapiro, and more. Register here to view the deals (and get an optional daily deal e-mail) See all the latest deals Appeals Court Says Rosetta Can Keep Operating as Random Pursues Case Rosetta Books can continue to operate while Random House pursues its case againt the e-publisher, after a Federal appeals court upheld the earlier denial of a preliminary injunction. While it’s always tempting to […]
Lunch for Monday, March 11, 2002
The Latest Deals and New Features Big new deals include a book about John Walker Lindh, Deepak Chopra’s first cookbook, an insider account of Israel’s destruction of Iraq’s nuclear reactor, a history of the CIA-led coup in Iran in 1953, the novel of the moment for the London Book Fair that’s being compared to Thomas HANNIBAL, plus a big fiction sale in London, and much more — all in advance of Deal Lunch, with updates during the day as we receive them. Plus, today we launch a major revamping of the member categories and pages at PublishersMarketplace.com. One of the […]
Lunch for March 8, 2002
The Latest Deals, Proposals, and More In the latest deals, Barneys creative director Simon Doonan is fascinated by Wacky Chicks, Al Sharpton finds a home for his campaign book, you can start guessing who will play Rudy!, there’s a new look at the 1980 US Olympic hockey team, and more, including live reports during the day. If you didn’t bookmark our Rights and Proposals Board yet, you might have missed two new psychological thrillers that draw on medical issues, a prisoner of war memoir that portrays a year in the life of a young American POW working on a German […]
Lunch for March 7, 2002
The Latest Deals, Proposals, and More What’s said to be a a groundbreaking investigative work on the asbestos poisoning of America, a new memoir, a Puschart winner’s new novel, and more, all in the latest deals at PublishersMarketplace.com. Meanwhile, if you haven’t bookmarked the Rights and proposals page yet (or if you aren’t using it sell projects), you could be missing out. A whole wave of intriguing new offerings includes everything from a police officer’s story of a three-year undercover investigation in Anaheim’s Little Gaza, a neighborhood controlled by Middle Eastern Organized Crime, to the extensive illustrated diary of a […]
Lunch for March 5, 2002
The Latest Deals, Proposals, and More We have so many new deals listed at PublishersMarketplace.com — 20 just since Monday night’s Deal Lunch — that I don’t know where to begin in teasing you with details (though my favorite remains the surprise home for wrestler Mick Foley’s novel). Please join us and get all the details. Meanwhile, new proposals include two-time Olympic gold medal skating chamption Katarina Witt’s an illustrated book on diet and exercise, which sold over 100,000 copies in Germany last year, available for English language rights. Plus, check out the most visited member pages, track your books’ […]
Lunch for March 4, 2002
The Latest Deals and More In deals a three-time Cy Young Award winner reveals his secrets, there’s a new “critter” from the Stellaluna creator, and much more (almost a dozen new reports) plus new deals during the day as we receive them and all the week’s news in advance of Deal Lunch, at PublishersMarketplace.com. Intriguing new proposals include the true story of the a recently discovered footlocker containing the lost drawings, films, photographs, articles, and engineering equipment of Donald Hall (“one of the greatest aeronautical engineers of the 20th century”), who collaborated with Charles Lindbergh in designing the Spirit of […]