"I have an amazing story to tell you," she said, stepping into my office.

"She" was the editorial director whose balanced perspective and judgment made her essential to me as Publisher and to the editorial staff.

"Okay, let's hear it."

One of the editors, she told...

"Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a brash price war against Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday, saying it would sell 10 new books for just $10 apiece through its online site, Walmart.com. That was just the beginning. Hours later, Amazon matched the $10 price. Wal-Mart soon fired back with a promise to...

"My advice, Stevie? Get the Hell out of this industry, 'cuz it's sinking like the Titanic."

This was said to me yesterday at lunch with a dear friend of mine who is also a prominent and enormously successful literary agent. There is no question there is trouble across the industry...

Dear Panicked Print Media Executive,
My wife and I adopted a shelter puppy from the local kennel but we're having trouble with the paper training. Do you have any advice?
--Desperate in Dallas

Dear Desperate:
After she got nailed in the last round of layoffs, Nell said...

"I don't usually shoot homeless people," Scott Schumann said. It was just that the man's jeans-shorts-over-sweat-pants look, his pale blue boots with matching socks, gloves and glasses, suggested that he had not lost his need to "communicate and express himself through style." Designers as unalike as Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto...