PEOPLE As announced previously, Bill Shinker will join Penguin Putnam as SVP and Publisher of an as yet unnamed imprint, on Sept. 4. He was most recently at Free Press, where he had been Publisher from August 2000 to his resignation at the beginning of April. Ken Wright, formerly at Holt Reference, has been named…Continue Reading
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When You Care Enough to Give the Very Best With Your Galley ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT INSIDE.COM (6/2/01) CHICAGO — According to a recent survey, interest in e-books is minimal, and recent figures suggest that retail sales of books are flat. But that hasn’t stopped publishers from hyping their new books, whatever it takes. And what…Continue Reading
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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT INSIDE.COM (4/26/01) Battered by the rise of Internet retailing, skewered by deep-discount bookselling chains and wounded by waves of sweepstakes scandals, the mail-order book publishing business has been hit hard, as customers have become increasingly cynical about their responsibility to pay up, return promptly and — above all — remain loyal to…Continue Reading
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PEOPLE Candy Lee, formerly CEO of Troll Communications, has joined iFormation Group as the MD of Sales & Marketing. Launched in June 2000, iFormation is a partnership of The Boston Consulting Group, General Atlantic Partners, and Goldman Sachs that partners with “the world’s leading companies by investing in and operating new technology businesses that leverage…Continue Reading
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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT INSIDE.COM (4/23/01) You can’t blame Thomas Middelhoff for trying. The chief executive of German media behemoth Bertelsmann — doted on in the business pages as a Visor-toting visionary dragging an ossified corporate empire out of the Westphalian mist — has upped the ante for global synergizing in one of his company’s most…Continue Reading
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The Asia International Book Fair may be the new kid on the block of Asian fairs. But as it wrapped up its second consecutive year during the week of April 24, it was clear that the annual trade book show has already given the region some much-needed exposure, sparking a broad conversation about emerging trends…Continue Reading
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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT INSIDE.COM (5/15/01) Nearly two decades after he captivated the world with escapades of gonzo spirituality as the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh — he with the fleet of 93 Rolls-Royces and a controversial 64,000-acre commune in Oregon — the guru today known as Osho has been reincarnated as a mind-body-spirit book phenom. Indeed, 11…Continue Reading
Wine Dark Seas Aegean Fables, France Between the Sheets, and Sweden Says ‘Pippi, Move Over’ A veritable odyssey of titles appears this month on the bestseller list from Greece, at the top of which is The Three Widows by Dora Yiannakopoulou, which traces the lives and friendships of three women who become friends after the…Continue Reading
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Despite lackluster sales and the death of all things ‘e’, there is continued interest from publishers in ebooks, epublishing, and elearning. So the seventh annual seminar hosted by University of Virginia and the Library of Congress on “Publishing in the 21st Century” was very much web-focused. The keynote was given by Hungry Minds’ CEO John…Continue Reading
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Last month Publishing Trends reported the results of its questionnaire on ebooks (see PT April, 2001). This month Vista International (with the Bookseller, Book Marketing Ltd., and Rightscom) gives us a peek at their survey of publisher attitudes toward technology, due out in June: • Surveying 80 “senior publishing executives” in trade, educational, professional, and…Continue Reading
