Bruce Harris
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After a forty + year career in publishing, including positions as Publisher-COO of Workman Publishing, President of Random House Trade Sales and Marketing, Director of Publishing of the Crown Publishing Group and founder of Harmony Books where he published Martin Amis, Douglas Adams, Irving Penn, Maurice Sendak and Ram Dass’ Be Here Now, Bruce began his independent consultancy practice for publishers and authors in 2004.

He has consulted for many companies including: Knopf, My Family.Com., Hyperion Books, The Taunton Press, Andrews Mc Meel Publishing, W. W. Norton, Budget Travel magazine, and several divisions of Time-Warner. He also supervised the independent publication of Joy at Work, which became a Business Week, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestseller and is currently working with several clients including the authors of The Risk Takers to be published by Vanguard in Spring 2010.

Blog Entries by Bruce Harris

"The First Tycoon": A Good News Publishing Backstory

Posted November 25, 2009 | 17:15:02 (EST)

Why would anyone want to read a 720 page book on the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt?

The object itself is a beautiful piece of bookmaking with a classy jacket and deckled edged paper.

I picked the book up a few moths ago because I'm personally interested in the impulses and...

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Predators in the Book Biz

Posted October 27, 2009 | 12:29:46 (EST)

In PW this week Jim Milliott writes that

The board of directors of the American Booksellers Association requested that the government begin an investigation into what the organization believes is the illegal predatory pricing policies being carried out by Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target in selling 10 hardcover titles...
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Will The Lost Symbol Kill Book Publishing?

Posted October 14, 2009 | 10:06:36 (EST)

Records were meant to be broken and the report that Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol sold 1 million books on the day of publication and over 2 million worldwide in the first week on sale called to mind Usain Bolt's amazing record in the 100m run. Publishers like to say...

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