Publishers Scrimmage Amid Dwindling Mass Market Suppliers The idiom of mass market book sales pops with so much merchandisers’ slang you could almost mistake it for a new extreme sport. You got your “lane blockers,” your “waterfalls,” your “power wings” and “gravity sleeves.” There are “clip strips” dangling product ready-to-hand, and “candyless checkouts” cheered by…Continue Reading
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It’s nearly BEA — which must mean that party season is on us again. What to do, where to go? While the fashion and film pack are given free nights galore at breathtakingly trendy Park with its planted tree in the middle of the floor and psychedelic fish-tank in the VIP bar upstairs, we publishing…Continue Reading
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As Russia’s book culture rebounds — witness the White Nights International Book Fair, slated for June 27–30 in St. Petersburg — copyright remains a needling concern. Yulia Borodyanskaya of Rightscenter.com reports from a recent conference meant to bolster awareness of the nation’s intellectual property laws. St. Petersburg is slowly but surely emerging as the cultural…Continue Reading
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The Streets of London Cumming Goes Undercover, More Fodder for Potter, and Delahunt Reaches for the Orange With all eyes focusing intently on the latest deals from the London Book Fair, we thought we’d swivel the periscope toward what’s hitting the stores this summer in the UK. For starters, Charles Cumming’s A Spy By Nature…Continue Reading
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McGraw-Hill’s Kids Group Sets Sights on the Trade Eleven years ago McGraw-Hill Inc. sacked more than 1,000 people and gutted its own infrastructure, shrinking its operating units from what had once been five, to three, and then two. Corporate vultures were regularly dive-bombing the company’s Sixth Avenue headquarters, girding for the last great hostile takeover…Continue Reading
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With Vista Computer Services’ survey of publishers’ attitudes toward ebooks and new technology about to be unleashed, and Simba’s just-released E-ssential Knowledge: The Consumer E-Books White Paper ($495 from simbanet.com), Publishing Trends decided to ask a (very) few questions of its own. We emailed a sampling of our correspondents and subscribers a brief questionnaire, and…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Gene Brissie, previously Editor in Chief at Prentice Hall Trade Publishing, has left to become a partner with Bert Holtje in the James Peter Associates Literary Agency. . . . Some changes in the S&S group: BJ Gabriel has been named VP National Accounts, with responsibility for sales of all S&S products, including adult…Continue Reading
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Industry Ad Spending Holds Steady, But Media Choices See-Saw As reports of widespread layoffs ricochet along Madison Avenue, and billboards still bear Christmas greetings downtown, the prospect of an advertising biz downturn has highlighted the fact that book publishers’ advertising habits — in terms of fact-based, industry-wide data — remain among the great unknowns of…Continue Reading
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It’s a two-way street for young writers in today’s book biz, contends Marian Wood, vp at Putnam and publisher of Marian Wood Books. Here’s an excerpt from her essay, “Is Publishing Dead?”, which appeared in the LA Times Book Review. It is easier today to publish a first novel than ever before. Armed with the…Continue Reading
Advance publicity for this year’s Toy Fair generated all the thrill of a wet blanket, with announcements rolling in from industry giants Mattel and Hasbro that their presence at the 98-year-old show will be significantly notched down in 2002. As talk of “downsizing” and “retrenching” swirled in the press, we were also treated to the…Continue Reading
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