Macmillan Latest Publishing Company To Suffer Layoffs
NEW YORK — Another book publisher is cutting jobs: Macmillan, where authors include Thomas Friedman, Rick Atkinson and Janet Evanovich, is elimi...
NEW YORK — Another book publisher is cutting jobs: Macmillan, where authors include Thomas Friedman, Rick Atkinson and Janet Evanovich, is elimi...
Danny Groner | Posted 11.17.2011
Last week the publishing world was shaken by word of layoffs and reorganization inside some of the top publishing houses. While the written word is st...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The economy has crashed down on an industry once believed immune from the worst _ book publishing _ with consolidation at Random Hous...
New York Times | Motoko Rich | Posted 05.25.2011
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher of authors including Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer, Günter Grass and J. R. R. Tolkien, has temporarily s...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The country's largest trade publisher, Random House Inc., has frozen the pensions of its current employees and eliminated them for fu...
Erica Heller | Posted 05.25.2011
Madness and stupidity are, alas, not limited to the arena of war. The publishing world seems to also have stepped in it, and will now leave us its grimy footprints to follow on the real Bridge to Nowhere.
CJR/Fox News | Posted 05.25.2011
In a somewhat predictable move, Joe The Plumber, aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, has signed a book deal. Joe told Fox News that he was "broke," but still to...
New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 05.25.2011
Earlier today Media Mob reported that political polling expert Nate Silver, the wunderkind statistician behind the Web site FiveThirtyEight.com, was o...
Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011
Reading digital text on a small handheld device is nothing like reading text on a computer (desktop or laptop). A mobile device is much more comfortable, for plenty of reasons.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011
Reading an ebooks is just "another way" to be reading, it's not necessarily a replacement of a hard copy. I prefer to talk to people face-to-face, but I recognize the utility of the telephone.
Advertising Age | Nat Ives | Posted 05.25.2011
Magazine readers are concerned about the environment and are already taking steps to live more sustainably, according to a survey of Hearst Magazines ...
Alex Geana | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the oddest things about being a new writer? The publishing industries new requirement. Writers need to have a reader base before a publisher will touch them.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011
Book publishing is late to the digital party so it can look to all the many mistakes the music business made in the past decade, and decide how to move into the uncertain future.
Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011
A friend who runs a printing plant told me half his clients are going under and the rest are struggling. But as he put it, "I can't subsidize the publishing business."
Jack Myers | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 400 magazine publishing and editorial executives gathered earlier this week in San Francisco for the annual American Magazine Conference.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011
There's going to be a shake-up, no doubt. It'll be ugly for publishing companies that don't adjust.
Jennifer Nix | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama Nation is a pathetic excuse for a book and is just one more example of how the right effectively moves their lies into the national discourse while the left fails to do so with progressive ideas.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011
In reaction to the torrent of hostile Obama books, my publisher made an early release deal with Amazon, spurring Barnes & Noble to cancel its orders and refuse to stock the book in any of its stores.
Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 11.17.2011
Memoir provides a means for anyone writing to become the hero of his or her own life. That's why we write memoir and that's why we read it.
Aaron Greenspan | Posted 05.25.2011
It seems like Ben Mezrich has perfect idea for a book. There's only one problem: so far, the book is being billed as a memoir, and I don't recall seeing him at Harvard in 2003, because he wasn't there.
Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.25.2011
The function of a memoir is to make a truth about a life lived that resonates in the bones of the writer and sends out shock waves of recognition to readers.
The Guardian (U.K.) | Stephen Brook | Posted 05.25.2011
Fashion bible Vogue launches in India today, aiming to blitz the market with a print run of 50,000 copies - more than double that of its nearest rival...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011