PEOPLE Much news in the beginning of this year: Long anticipated, and widely reported (in some places, more than once), Sarah Crichton is out and Michael Pietsch is in at Little, Brown. In other TWP news, Time Life Books is closing and Neil Levin is heading the new group (down to a dozen or so…Continue Reading
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Not surprisingly, 1999 — a year which occurred in that surreal interlude before anyone could imagine the impact of April 2000’s dot-com dump — was a year when everything came up “e”. And, as we glance at our prognostications of last year, we find that Publishing Trends exhorted publishers to embrace the opportunities that were…Continue Reading
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This was supposed to have been the year of the e-book, though judging from the hype and early sales, it might be safer to call it the year of the book, period. After scanning the evolving e-publishing landscape, PT’s panel of industry experts has selected the most interesting electronic publishing events of 2000, offered herewith…Continue Reading
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Tagged eBay, EBX, Electronic Book Exchange, Fatbrain, Frankfurt-Whitaker, HarperCollins, Henry Yuen, Holtzbrinck, IDG, Inside.com, Joel Fishman, John Wiley, Kip Parent, Lightning, Microsoft, MightyWords, Open eBook Forum, Oppenheimer Funds, Publisherslunch.com, Questia, Random House, RCA, Rightscenter.com, Sprout, Stanford University Press, Subrights.com, TV Guide, Ziff-Davis
PEOPLE Two Random House appointments: Beryl Needham, previously Dir. of Marketing for Little, Brown, has been named VP Dir. of National Accts. Children’s Books. And Adene Corns has been named VP Dir. of clubs and AMS. She was previously at S&S. Corns comes to Random with her full team . . . After 21 years…Continue Reading
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It’s strap in and launch time for the three most prominent contenders in the world of author-focused websites. To wit: AuthorsOnTheWeb.com, another node on Carol Fitzgerald’s Book Report Network, expects to go live by December 11; PreviewPort.com, an author portal headed by novelist Susan Bergman, is set to roll out an e-book store, and hopes…Continue Reading
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Agents Sound Off on New Media Given their relatively negligible treatment in the media coverage of the e-book biz over the past few months, you could reasonably conclude that literary agents are mere bystanders (or at best, nagging backseat drivers) in the mad dash to forge a viable new-media publishing model. Below, two agents respond…Continue Reading
Book Packagers Make the Best of a Worst-Case Scenario “The advantage of working with packagers,” says Mark Magowan, associate publisher at Abrams, “is that when the math of a series goes down, you don’t have to fire your own staff.” Though Magowan may be grinning as he says it, it’s no joke that book packagers…Continue Reading
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Tagged 17th Street Productions, Abrams, Al Lowman, Alloy Online, American Whole Health, Aqua Erotica, B&N.com, Bertelsmann, Book Soup, Bookspan, Broadway Books, Cader Books, Charles Melcher, Chronicle, Crown, Dan Weiss, David Borgenicht, Gruner + Jahr, Home Depot, Home Improvement 1-2-3, Jack Kerouac, Judith Joseph, Julia Molino, Kraft No Oven Summer Sensations, LiveReads, Mark Magowan, Melcher Media, Meredith, Michael Cader, Orpheus Emerged, Publisherslunch.com, Reader's Digest, Rebus, Rizzoli, Rodney Friedman, Roundtable Press, Soapdish Editions, Susan Meyer, The Amazing Book of Paper Boats, Three Rivers Press, Time Inc., Time Warner, UC Berkeley Wellness Letter, Van Nostrand Reinhold, WholeHealthMD, Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT INSIDE.COM (12/6/00) When Stephen King pulled the plug last week on his online serial story The Plant, citing a dwindling base of readers willing to pony up a buck for the latest installment, pundits rushed to declare electronic self-publishing dead on arrival. But many of them failed to notice that King’s supposed…Continue Reading
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Tagged B&N.com, Bertelsmann, BMG Direct, Book Club Associates, Book-of-the-Month Club, Bookspan, Christian Friege, eMarketing Strategy, Literary Guild, Markus Wilhelm, Neal Goff, Reader's Digest, Ruth Stevens, Stephen King, The Plant, Time Warner, William Zinsser
17th Street Productions Takes On Hollywood What do you get when you take a teen-oriented book packager, implant a Silicon Alley–style “convergence media business model,” and throw in a few Hollywood film options? As Leslie Morgenstein, president of 17th Street Productions, puts it, “We’re becoming a multimedia company rather than a book packager,” and that…Continue Reading
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Tagged 17th Street Productions, Alloy, Alloy.com, Ann Brashares, CCS, Columbia TriStar, Dan Weiss, Fearless, Francine Pascal, Greenblatt Janollari Studio, HarperCollins, Leslie Morgenstein, Penguin Putnam, Pocket, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Storyline Entertainment, The Black Book: Diaries of a Teenage Stud
Though there were e-items all over the Frankfurt Book Fair, and a press release from the fair went so far as to assert that 75% of all companies exhibiting had some e-thing on display, there was not a lot to get excited about — except, that is, the Anglo-American newcomer, eSubstance. In a sleek booth…Continue Reading
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