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Move Over, Buffy

December 1, 2000

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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

Posted in Featured Articles • 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

Loony for Laydowns

August 1, 2000

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As live satellite feeds beamed Scholastic’s midnight Muggle-fest around the globe last month, the intricately choreographed release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was evidence of more than just the good fortune of Potter point-man Michael Jacobs. It was also proof that the one-day laydown — a luxury formerly reserved for embargoed bombshells…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged A Clean Well Lighted Place, Alexandra Ripley, Amazon, AMS, B&N, Bob Wietrak, Dick Heffernan, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Kevan Lyon, Michael Jacobs, Michael Wolff, Neal Sofman, Penguin Putnam, Random House, Rick Hall, Scarlett, Time Warner

Book View, June 2000

June 1, 2000

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PEOPLE Reader’s Digest announces that Harold Clarke, most recently President of Random’s Children’s Publishing Division, has been named VP Publisher New Market Development, for RD’s Global Books and Home Entertainment Division, reporting to SVP and President John Bohane. Speaking of exurban, Janet Harris has left Workman, where she has overseen all sales, to become Associate…Continue Reading

Posted in Book View • Tagged Alice van Straalen, AMG, Anchor Books, Ballantine, Bill Phillips, BoardRoom, Bookspan, Broadway, Celia O'Connell, Center for Literary Presses, Craig Herman, David Gale, Debby Tobias, Deborah Baker, Dino Battista, Doubleday Direct, Elizabeth Bogner, Harold Clarke, HarperCollins, iPublish, Janet Harris, Jennifer Josephy, John Bohane, Karen Daly, Keith Goldsmith, Kodansha, Library of America, Little Brown, Lucinda Karter, Lyda Shuster, Marcia Burch, Michael Morrison, Mike Winton, Morrow/Avon, Norton, Owl/Holt, Penguin Putnam, Pocket Books, Publishers Group West, Random House, Reader's Digest, Rightscenter.com, Roger Cooper, S&S, Storey, Time Warner, Tracy Brown, USA Films, Vintage, Warner, Will Lippincott, Workman, Zagat, Zagat Survey

Book View, March 2000

March 1, 2000

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PEOPLE This month, the announcement of the millennium comes from Penguin Putnam, which has hired retired Commanding General Gilbert S. Harper of the US Army as VP for warehousing and fulfillment. Responsibilities in his previous life included “designing the Army’s next generation distribution architecture.” Industry watchers like the image of the soldier reporting to our…Continue Reading

Posted in Book View • Tagged AM Homes, Amit Chaudhuri, Andre Dubus III, Anness Publishing, Annie Proulx, Annik LaFarge, Arrow, Arthur Schlessinger Jr., BDD, Ben Franklin, Bill Barry, Bill Straun, Black Cherry Blues, Broadway/Doubleday, Cambridge Univ Press, Candice Delong, Careerbay.com, Carisa Hays, Charles Grench, Charles Nurnberg, Christine Caruso, Close Range, Columbia University Press, Contentville.com, Crown, Daniel Goleman, Dartmouth, Dava Sobel, David Chalfant, David Lappin, Deb Brody, Dick Seaver, Disney Worldwide Publishing, Donald Antrim, Ed Barry, Edward Said, Eileen Cope, Elaine Koster, Emily Heckman, Emotional Intelligence, Fodor's, Frances Gilbert, Frank McCourt, Freedom Song, FSG, Gilbert S. Harper, Gilles Dana, Harmony Press, HarperAudio, HarperCollins, HarperResource, Henry Holt, Holt, House of Sand and Fog, Hyperion, IDG Books, IMG, Inwood, iVillage, Ja Hing, Jack Romanos, James Lee Burke, Jeannette Seaver, Jennifer Josephy, Joe Pittman, John Conti, John Fagan, Judith Carr, Jumpa Lahiri, Junot Díaz, Karen Kelly, Kathryn Court, Kent Haruf, Knopf, Laura Brown, Lauren Wohl, Lewis Bateman, Linda Cunningham, Little Brown, Liz Hartman, Lois Wallace, Louise Gluck, Lowenstein Associates, Lynn Nesbit, Marcia Burch, Marcia Herrin, Maria Guarnaschelli, Marion Maneker, Mark Ouimet, Martha Levin, Mary Ellen Curley, Mary Wowk, Miramax/Talk, NAL, Nancy Matsumoto, Nat Sobel, National Arts Club, Nicole Aragi, OUP, Pat Mulcahy, Paul Beason, Paul Elie, Payback, Penguin Putnam, PGW, Phil Duva, Phil Spitzer, Pinwheel, Plainsong, Pocket Books, Purple Cane Road, Questia Media Inc, Random House, Random Reference, Rebecca Strong, RH, Robert Teufel, Robin Strashun, Rodale, Rufus Wainwright, S&S, Saul Bellow, Scholastic, Scribner, Seth Gershel, Sloan Harris, Sonny Mehta, St. Martin's, Stacy Schiff, Sterling, Steve Murphy, Steve Wasserman, Steven Brill, Steven Magnuson, Stuart Applebaum, Susan Dalsimer, Taming the Hunger Within, The Free Press, Three Rivers Press, Tilting at Windmills, Tom Kelly, Trigg Robinson McLeod, Univ of North Carolina Press, Waiting, Warner, Winslow Press, Workman, WRC Media, Yale Univ Press

Book View, January 2000

January 1, 2000

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PEOPLE Other than arch rivals co-venturing (viz. BOMC and the Doubleday Clubs) and sales departments reorganizing (first Random, then Harper, then S&S. . . ), it’s been a quiet few weeks. Well, not exactly quiet: First, word came that B&N’s David Cully was going to Lechters as President and COO, and then S&S announced that…Continue Reading

Posted in Book View • Tagged Abrams, Academy of American Poets, Amazon, Anne Kostick, B&N, Bagehot Council, Ballantine, Bantam Dell, Barefoot Books, Bertelsmann, Bill Wadsworth, BlueBarn Interactive, Bob Asahina, BOMC, Britney Spears, Broadway, Carol Southern, Clarkson Potter, Contentville.com, Crown, Dan Halpern, David Cully, Deborah Garrison, Disney Publishing, Don Imus, Doubleday, Dutton, Ellen Friedman, Erik Engstrom, Evelyn Lauder, Faith Sale, Francine Prose, Frank Weimann, Geoffrey Beene, Ginger Barber, HarperCollins, Heather Schroeder, Henning Gutmann, Henry Holt, Henry Paolucci, Hillel Black, Hyperion, Ian Chapman, ICM, International Intellectual Property Alliance, Jane Friedman, Jerry Howard, John Conti, John Duff, John Russell, Josalyn Moran, Karen Mender, Kat Berman, Kate Tentler, Knopf, Kristen Kiser, Lauren Shakely, Lechters, Leonard Lauder, Leroy Nieman, Lisa Holton, Lisa Mandel, Lynn Nesbit, Maria Campbell, Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living, MaryChris Bradley, Michael di Capua, Microsoft, Morrow, Nancy Novogrod, Nick Webb, Nike, North-South Books, Pantheon, Paul Bresnick, Penguin Putnam, Perigee Books, Peter Olsen, Pocket Books, Random House, Reader's Digest, Regis Philbin, Richard Oldenburg, Robert Stone, Rosamond Bernier, S&S, Sheila Curry, Something Shining, Sourcebooks, Stephanie Owens Lurie, Steve Brill, Steve Geck, Tessa Strickland, The New Yorker, Tracy Brown, VitaminShoppe.com, Wiley, Workman, Yahoo!, Yale Univ Press

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