PEOPLE Simon & Schuster’s various imprints have been trimmed over the past few weeks: Rachel Klayman has been laid off from The Free Press, Jeff Neuman has left S&S (and may be reached at neudors@yahoo.com), and Rosemary Ahern (who arrived from Dutton less than two years ago), and Kim Kanner and an assistant have departed…Continue Reading
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PEOPLE After 15 years at Reader’s Digest, most recently as VP Global Director, Global Books & Home Entertainment, Alfredo Santana will be leaving the company. He may be reached via email at siempre@attglobal.net or at (212) 781-0632. Santana tells PT that he will attend Frankfurt this year, his eighteenth. Gerry Helferich, who recently left Wiley,…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Wyatt Book, Abbeville, About.com, Abrams, Alfredo Santana, Alison Callahan, Amiri Baraka, Anne Roiphe, Annie Hughes, Anthony F. Janson, Ballantine, Barbara Marcus, Barnes & Noble, Barry Samuels, Bill Strachan, Billy Collins, Bob Wyatt, BOMC, Broadcreek Dixieland Band, Brown, Candlewick Press, Chris McKerrow, Claire Tisne, Coleman Theater, Columbia University Press, Crown, David Allender, Deborah Sloan, Doubleday, Electronic Book Web, Ellen Shapiro, Eric Himmel, Esther Margolis, Gemstar eBookstore, Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, German Book Office, Gerry Helferich, Golden Notebook, Grace Paley, HarperCollins, History of Art, Ingram, James H. Billington, Jane Friedman, Janice King, Jeff Meltzer, Josh Marwell, Kathy Smith, Ken Brooks, Kitt Allan, Knowbetter.com, Laura Bush, Library of Congress, Little, Macmillan, Mariachi Los Amigos, Mary Beth Guimaraes, McGraw-Hill, Mel Parker, Nancy Miller, National Book Festival, New York Is Book Country, Newmarket Press, Open University Press, Palm, Pat Strachan, Pearson Education, Peter Clifton, Pocket, Powells.com, PubEasy, Publishing & Media Group, Publishing Dimensions, Reader's Digest, Riky Stock, Rita Dove, Robert Jones, Scholastic, Squeeze Bayou, St. Martin's, Stan Fisher, Susan Weinberg, Taha Muhammad Ali, Taking Wing: Poems from the Oregon Outback to the Hudson Valley, Ted Hill, Teresa Nicholas, Teri Henry, The Bookseller, The Red Tent, Trafalgar Square, Vista, Warner/ipublish, Wiley, Workman, Zack Schisgal
Today’s $50 Lifestyle Books Just Might Be Worth Every Penny Early this year, the illustrated book market was declared dead, or at least mutilated (blame the blood-curdling discount battle between Könemann and Taschen), with high-end art houses such as Abrams, Abbeville, and Rizzoli said to be wallowing hip-deep in a glut of coffee-table books. Just…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Return to Cooking, Abbeville, Abradale, Abrams, AOL TW, Artisan, Barnes & Noble, Black & Decker, book sales, BookScan, Borders, Briggs & Stratton, Bruce Harris, Bulfinch Press, Chain Sales Marketing, Christopher Capen, Claekson Potter, Creative Publishing, Day in the Life of America, DK, Earth From Above, Eric Ripert, Fog City Press, French Laundry Cookbook, HarperCollins, Harvey Markowitz, Healthy 1-2-3, Jill Cohen, Karen Kreiger, Konemann, Lauren Shakely, Laurie Rippon, Len Riggio, Mel Shapiro, Popular Mechanics, Quarto, QVC, Rizzoli, Rozanne Gold, Simon & Schuster, Singer, Small Engine Care and Repair, Steve Tager, Stewart Tabori & Chang, Taschen, Tehabi Books, Terry Newell, The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair, The New American Cheese, Tim Street-Porter, Tropical Houses, Wal-Mart, Weldon Owen, Williams Sonoma Savoring, Workman
The message from last week’s gargantuan National Stationery Show — all 270,000 square feet of it, sprawled over New York’s Javits Center from May 19-22 — was a gold-embossed, watermarked greeting card carrying that shopworn mantra: content is king. Well, this time around content was king, as an estimated 15,000 buyers seemed to breeze right…Continue Reading
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Tagged American Greetings, Andy Goldsworthy, Barefoot Contessa, Blue Mountain Arts, Candlewick, Chronicle, Chronicle Books, Constance Kay, David Downton, Dinotopia, Excite@home, Fairie-ality, FAO Schwarz, Garborg's, Helen Steinbuck, House of Ellwand, Ina Garten, Jane Lahr, Karen Lotz, Kate Spade, Love Checks, Madame Alexander, Max Lucado, Mike levine, Mike Shutz, National Stationery Show, Panton, Penguin Putnam, Publications International, Random House, Silver Linings, Sourcebooks, SPS Studios, Susan Shutz, Workman, Zany Brainy
There was a certain fin de siècle feeling at the Javits Center during the week of Feb. 11 — it was the 99th annual Toy Fair, after all — as the toy biz hit New York City in suitably world-weary grandeur. Press releases moped that the learning segment of the toy industry was down 6%…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amy Epstein, BAFTA, Brain Quest, DK, Egmont, Eloise, Eloise Takes a Bawth, EM.TV, Friedman/Fairfax, Goldilocks, International Playthings, itsy bitsy, Jim Henson, Kay Thompson, Klutz, Klutz Kwiz, Lamaze, Learning Curve, Simon & Schuster, Spin Master Toys, The Hoobs, The Straight Edge, The Three Little Pigs, toy fair, Workman
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
Gary Hoover, whose book Hoover’s Vision is being published in November, gave PT an email and telephone interview while touring the country on speaking engagements. A website, Hooversvision.com, will launch simultaneously with the book. PT asked if Hoover’s Vision is for business moguls only, or does it appeal to a broader audience? It’s for “anyone…Continue Reading
Calendar Publishing Clocks Another Year. But Is There Life After ‘The Far Side’? The Far Side Off-the-Wall Calendar, Gary Larson’s page-a-day phenomenon that has been the number one selling boxed calendar for more than a decade, is history. “He decided that 17 years was enough,” says Michael Nonbello, VP for Andrews McMeel Publishing. “Larson wanted…Continue Reading
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Tagged American Greetings, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Anne Geddes, At-a-Glance, Barnes & Noble, Borders, BrownTrout, Calendar Club, Charles Miers, Chess Press, Chiquita, Date Works, Day by Day, Far Side Off-the-Wall Calendar, Gary Larson, HarperCollins, HarperEntertainment, Harry Potter, Hyperion, John Lash, Lisa Gulick, Michael Nonbello, Mike Brown, Mike Hejny, Motorbooks International, Penguin Putnam, Ricky Martin, Rizzoli, Simon & Schuster, Sunbelt PUblications, The Date Place, The New Girls of Maxim, Tom Dupree, Twentieth Century Fox, Universe, Workman
Vendor Survey 2001 As the old nursery rhyme has it: “Three wise men of Gotham / Went to sea in a bowl; / If the bowl had been stronger / My story had been longer.” The ever trenchant respondents to Publishing Trends’ annual survey on publisher services to wholesalers and retailers have cast publishers in…Continue Reading
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Tagged Bertelsmann, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, Houghton Mifflin, Norton, Penguin Putnam, PGW, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Time Warner Trade, Workman
What began as a humble “public service” snack is swiftly plumping up to a full-meal deal for Michael Cader, the book packager and compulsive web-surfer behind Publishers Lunch, a free daily email news digest for the book biz. Launched last April and based at www.publisherslunch.com, the service has already been promoted as the publishing industry’s…Continue Reading
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Tagged Bad As I Wanna Dress, Cader Books, Chronicle Books, Crown Books, HarperCollins, Hyperion, In The Kitchen With Bill, Jim Romenesko, Michael Cader, PBS, Poynter, Publishers Lunch, Smithsonian, Subrights.com, Workman
