Museum and Art Book Publishers Wander in Copyright’s Wild West If every picture tells a story, Mitch Tuchman has heard them all. As head of publications at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for 13 years, Tuchman produced 68 volumes for copublication or trade distribution, wrangling permission to print thousands of images from…Continue Reading
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Tagged Art Museum Image Consortium, Artists Rights Society, ArtSTOR, Bob Panzer, Bridgeman Art Library, Corbis, Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, Garrett White, James Shulman, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mellon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mikki Carpenter, Museum of Modern Art, Peter Howe, Peter Warner, Susan Bielstein, Susan Chun, Thames & Hudson, Theodore Feder, University of Chicago Press, Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Whitney, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Workman
Eyeing the plethora of titles from publishers large and small at the 91st National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention, one relatively new educational publisher was heard to marvel, “How can so many books sell?” Indeed, that was the question furrowing many publishers’ brows during the weekend of Nov. 17, as an estimated 6,000…Continue Reading
Parisian Pandemonium Vargas Plagues Paris, Orsenna’s French Lessons, And Brouwers Skewers Dutch Boomers The specter of bubonic plague coming down the mail chute rattles all of Paris in an uncannily topical work by the French archaeologist and crime writer Fred Vargas. In the author’s latest novel, Leave Quickly and Return Late (which, incidentally, was written…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Day in the Life of God, Algiers: White Town, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Ariane Fink, Atlas, Aufbau, Cinemax, Diamantis, DVA, Einaudi, Erik Orsenna, Fabienne Roussel, Fayard, Fluttering Heart, Fred Vargas, Geert Mak, Goncourt, Grammar Is a Sweet Song, Guillermo Schavelzon, Harvard University Press, Harvill, Ildiko von Kurthy, Jeroen Brouwers, Laura Susijn, Leave Quickly and Return Late, Martin Caoparros, Martine Bertea, Monica Herrero, Moonshine Duty, My Father's Century, Osiris, Prix Femina, Regine Deforges, Saint-Exupery, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Secret Rooms, Seix Barral, Siedler, Stock, Sunken Red, The Blue Bicycle, Tokyo Sogensha, Ves Mir, Viviane Hamy, Waking the Dead
Though much battered in the last decade, Croatia’s 4.5 million inhabitants are citizens of the most developed and richest former Yugoslav republic — and one eager to traffic in the world of books. The Zagreb-based publisher Hrvoje Bozicevic of Editions Bozicevic profiles the nation’s evolving publishing business. The wartime atrocities that befell Croatia and Slovenia…Continue Reading
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Tagged Auden, Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, Croatian Association of Publishers and Booksellers, Dubravka Ugresic, Editions Bozicevic, Eve Ensler, F.W. Engdahl, Fording the Stream of Consciousness, Grand Street, Hrvoje Bozicevic, J. K. Rowling, Janko Polic Kamov, John Grisham, Leksikografski Zavod Miroslav Krleza, marble Skin, Matic Hrvatska, Milan Kundera, Miljenko Jergovic, National University Library, Nikola Sop, Northwestern, Norton, Partisan Review, Patricia Cornwell, Paul Auster, Penguin, Sarajevki Marlboro, Skolska Kujiga, Slavenka Drakulic, Sveznadar, The New York Trilogy, The Vagina Monologues, Tom Clancy
As jitters over snail mail consume the media, email marketers have been keen to whisper what amounts to the new gospel in direct-to-consumer marketing: opting-in. Wary of their mailboxes, the theory goes, customers are much more likely to agree to receive promotional messages via email. Whether or not this is actually the case, sagging response…Continue Reading
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Tagged B&N.com, Bertelsmann, Bookspan, Cambridge U. Press, DirectGroup, George Pratt, Gwen Seznec, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School Press, Henry Holt, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Zooba
Talk of international piracy may make some American publishers nod off at the conference table, but at a forum held in Frankfurt last month, the Indian anti-piracy daredevil Akash Chittranshi told tales that had even the most narcoleptic among us wide-eyed with suspense. An intellectual property lawyer based in New Delhi by day — and…Continue Reading
Sales of Book Businesses Plummet, But the Big Keep Getting Bigger In the third quarter of this year, merger and acquisition activity in trade book and other consumer publishing segments plummeted more than 40%, according to industry figures tracked by investment banking firm Whitestone Communications. Despite a flurry of speculation over sales — for example,…Continue Reading
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Tagged Arthur Bicknell, Baran Rosen, Bill Brinton, Bill Hammond, Cinven, Consortium, Cowan Liebowitz, David Libowitz, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Globe Pequot, Hachette, HarperCollins, Hicks Muse Tate & Furst, IDG, Kit van Tulleken, Lagardere, Lyons Press, Macmillan General Reference, Mark Pattis, Martin Levin, McGraw-Hill, Merriam Webster, Morris Communications, Next Chapter Holdings, Nick Lyons, North-South, NTC/Contemporary, Octopus, Pearson, Prentice hall Direct, Publishing Strategy International, Random House, Sanoma WSOY, Simon & Schuster, Tom Panelas, Vivendi, VNU, Warburg Pincus, Whitestone Communications
The Travolta Generation Swingin’ Sweden’s Gardell, Finland’s Eager Readers, And Greece’s Turk in the Garden One of Scandinavia’s sassiest stand-up comedians drenches himself in “sweaty randiness and lonely searching” this month with A UFO Makes an Entry, a second novel by Jonas Gardell about the star-crossed generation that grew up in the suburban 1970s, weaned…Continue Reading
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Tagged A UFO Makes an Entry, Clara Gustafsson, Edita, Growing Up a Comedian, Jonas Gardell, Norstedts, Otava, Tammi, The Passion Play, Tiden, Tiderne Skifter, WSOY
In the waning days of October, Publishing Trends paid a nostalgia-filled visit to Chicago’s McCormick place, this time to the 84th Annual Direct Marketing Association conference to see how another troubled industry deals with adversity. Next to the direct response business — buffeted by ever-increasing postal rates and regulations, an economy in the doldrums and…Continue Reading
Crime has been paying well enough for Court TV, the fast-growing cable network launched in 1991 (and founded by the now beleaguered Steven Brill) that under chief executive Henry Schleiff has doubled its reach to 60 million viewers in recent years, doling out televised trials by day and original riffs on the criminal justice system…Continue Reading
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Tagged AOL Time Warner, Burt Reynolds, Court TV, Crime Library, Doug Jacobs, Henry Schleiff, Jack the Ripper, Kensington, Liberty Media, Little Brown, O.J. Simpson, Rosalie Muskatt, Steven Brill, Ted Bundy, Wadsworth International Thompson Learning, You Be the Judge
