The debate’s still out on whether America’s officially in a recession, but with food prices rising faster today than they have any time in the past seventeen years, customers may be cutting back on restaurant meals and cooking at home instead. What cookbook will they pick up? Will they pick one up at all? About…Continue Reading
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PEOPLE Karen Holt has been named Deputy Editor at PW, reporting to Sara Nelson, for whom she had worked at Simba. Holt came from The Book Standard and she starts March 14. Michael Coffey will become Executive Managing Editor. Meanwhile, erstwhile PW Editor Nora Rawlinson has joined Time Warner Book Group in the new position…Continue Reading
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People Publishers haven’t gotten the memo about summer doldrums, apparently, because this has been a record month for job changes: Phaidon Press announced that Chris North has become MD, working out of its London headquarters. North was most recently at HarperCollins, first in New York and later in Toronto as COO of HarperCollins Canada. Janet…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
A Quick Reference Fix for Publishers As we were trying to find hard data on the subject of reading groups recently, we realized once again how little useful, accurate, or relevant information there is on book publishing. So we asked a few people who are in the knowledge business — reference librarians, consultants, packagers, etc….Continue Reading
