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Harold Evans, "Newspaper Junkie" (VIDEO)

abcnews.com | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

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Sir Harold Evans, former king of old media -- he was the long-time editor of the UK's Sunday Times -- was on Good Morning America this morning to talk...

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The Writer-in-Chief

Steve Ross | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Political Writers, Book Publishing, Books, Barnes and Noble, Union Square, Random House, Barack Obama, Bestsellers, Nobel Prize, Obama Books, One Year Later, Audacity of Hope, Dreams From My Father, Memoir, 2008 Campaign, Books News
Steve Ross

Dreams from My Father had received a few impressive blurbs and favorable reviews, but had sold only a few thousand copies, so had been out of print for years.

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Tim Donaghy's Book Canceled, Threats of Lawsuit

ESPN | Sam Alipour | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: NBA Referee, Nba, New Books, Tim Donaghy, Blowing the Whistle, Books, Random House, Donaghy, Sports, NBA Book, Books News

Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy's tell-all book has been canceled by Triumph Books and parent company Random House, the publisher said. Blowing the Wh...

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Mavis Gallant: Underrated Short Story Master Proves Herself Again

David Finkle | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Short Stories, Expatriates in Paris, Literary Fiction, The New Yorker, Mavis Gallant, The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories, Green Sky, A Fairly Good Time, The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant, Canadian Authors, Random House, Alfred Dreyfus, Green Water, The New York Review of Books Publishing, Books News
David Finkle

Since none of the fiction lovers to whom I mention Mavis Gallant has more than the vaguest notion who she is -- this, despite her being singled out fo...

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Vampires: Why Here, Why Now?

Tom Alderman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Count Chocula, The Vampire Diaries, Dark Shadows, Bela Lugosi, Syracuse University, Random House, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Charlaine Harris, Hammer Films, Colin Farrell, Sesame Steet, Nicolas Cage. Con Air, Interview With a Vampire, Wheaties Breakfast of Champions, Lord Byron, Stephanie Meyer, Anne Rice, Lady Caroline Lamb, The CW Network, Tracey Bateman, Bram Stoker, The Vampyre, Twilight, Charlie Huston, General Mills, Drew Silver, The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vampires, WaterBrook Publishers, Rosemary Laurey, Robert Thompson, True Blood, Tanya Huff, John Polidori, Bill Compton, Nosferatu, Sookie, Entertainment News
Tom Alderman

If fiction often reflects a nation's culture, why, oh-why-oh, do we have so many vampires, in so many places, sucking up so many entertainment dollars with such blazing success today?

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Current Best Sellers: Buyers Beware

Tom Alderman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Harper Audio, The Making of a President, Mitch Rapp, Arthur Morey, Richard Wolffe, William Morrow, Theodore White, Obama, Fire and Ice, Random House, Nick Heller, Renegade, Jack Reacher, Crown Publishing, Joseph Finder, J. A. Jance, Blackwater, Joanne Brady, Paranoia, J. P. Beaumont, Vanished, Holgter Graham, Killer Instinct, St. Martin's Press, MacMillan Audio, Media News
Tom Alderman

If you're the kind of reader who must finish a book no matter how disappointing, you might want to save time by simply avoiding these current offerings from three marquee-name writers.

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William Bratton Book Deal: Retiring LA Police Chief To Write Book

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 09.13.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — William J. Bratton, who last week abruptly announced he would retire as head of the Los Angeles Police Department, has a book deal. ...

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What Is Work? Mastering the Art of Change

Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, MJ Ryan, Change, Humor, Careers, Random House, Self-Empowerment, Job Search, Happiness, Sharon Glassman, Broadway Books, Adaptability, Social Networking, Positive Psychology, Living News
Sharon Glassman

Change Masters use their talents and tools to rule the day. Victims of change decry their fate. Now is an endless opportunity to be one, or the other. Which one will we choose?

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He Showed the World Through Teachers' Eyes: Thank You, Frank McCourt

Dan Brown | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Ed Reform, New York City Public Schools, Education, Random House, Stuyvesant High School, Angela's Ashes, Terry Gross, Shakespeare, Teachers, Storycorps, Frank Mccourt, Fresh Air, Media News
Dan Brown

Occasionally, a teacher can cross over from the all-consuming teaching sphere to tell the tale to the masses. No one in recent memory did this more successfully than Frank McCourt.

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Jay-Z Closes In On Book Deal

The New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Spiegel and Grau, Jay-Z, Hip Hop, Random House, Books, Media News

Jay-Z is close to finalizing a book deal with the Spiegel & Grau imprint of Random House. The literary agent repping the rapper, Matthew Guma, had no ...

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Kathy Griffin Memoir Acquired For More Than $2 Million

New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

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The comedian Kathy Griffin is writing a memoir, and according to three sources with knowledge of the deal, her literary agent at Endeavor, former Dutt...

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Alpha Financial Dogs Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb, Socks Clinton and First Annual Lucky Award given to Mickey Rourke!

Wendy Diamond | Posted 03.26.2009 | Style

Read More: AnimalFair.Com, Dev Patel, The Lucky Award, Bill Clinton, Sydney Pollack, Socks, Kate Winslet, Bloomberg News, Nouriel Roubini, PetSmart.Com, Anthony Minghella, Adoptions.Petsmart.com, Mickey Rourke, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Betty Currie, Sean Penn, The Reader, Random House, Slumdog Millionaire, Harvey Milk, Wall-E, 81st Academy Awards, Elegy, Kodak Theatre, Penelope Cruz, Vicki Christina Barcelona, Oscars, Paris Hilton's Tinkerbell, Heath Ledger, The Times, Vino, Style News
Wendy Diamond

In honor of the 81st Academy Awards, I decided I wanted to start the first annual Lucky Awards. It's not about glamour, but the person or film and their contributions to a greater good.

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Bernie Madoff Books Coming From Two Major Publishers

AP | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — The Bernard Madoff books are in the works. Less than one week after the former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market was arrested for ...

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Layoffs at Random House, Simon & Schuster

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 01.03.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — The economy has crashed down on an industry once believed immune from the worst _ book publishing _ with consolidation at Random Hous...

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Publish or Perish v. Publish and Perish

Aimee Liu | Posted 12.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Blogs, Time, Internet, Electronic Publishing, Advertising Age, E-Books, Cottage Living, Artists, Random House, Technology, Business News
Aimee Liu

Here's the central paradox: there's more opportunity for all to publish, but more than ever, only the mega-sellers profit at all. It's like a rapidly expanding casino with a shrinking winner's circle.

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Random House Going Digital With Thousands Of Books

AP | Posted 12.25.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK — With e-book sales exploding in an otherwise sleepy market, Random House Inc. announced Monday that it was making thousands of additio...

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Random House Freezes Employee Pensions, Eliminates Pensions For Future Hires

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Random House, Random House Pensions, Pensions, Books, Book Business, Publishing, Media News

NEW YORK — The country's largest trade publisher, Random House Inc., has frozen the pensions of its current employees and eliminated them for fu...

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Paul Simon's Lyrics & The Case Of The Vanishing Compact Disc

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Sony Legacy, The Black Eyed Peas, Maroon 5, Clive Davis, John Mayer, High School Musical 3, Verve Records, Axl Rose, One Tree Hill, Joss Stone, Michael J. Fox, Compact Discs, Cds, Emo, David Archuleta, Philly International, Barack Obama, Barnes & Noble, Ricky Martin, Chuck Close, Taylor Swift, Napster, Led Zepplin, Coldplay, Borders, High School Musical 2, Superman, Joni Mitchell, Circuit City, American Idol, David Remnick, Graceland, Phillip Glass, Britney Spears, Lps, Paul Simon, Broadway, Neil Young, Random House, Singer Sowing Center, Jazz Music, Grammy, Classical Music, Concord Records, John Legend, David Cook, John McCain, Simon & Garfunkel, 45s, Vinyl, Beyonce, High School Musical, Starbuck's, Genesis, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Best Buy, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Emi, R.E.M., Itunes, Guns N' Roses, Matrix, Ume, Rhino, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

The problem of compact discs disappearing from the marketplace is worse than it was only a year ago. Store buyers just ain't a-buyin' from the labels, and it's looking grim all over.

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First Time Novelist Breaks All Rules with a Winner

Cynthia Kling | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media

Read More: How Far Is the Ocean From Here, Virginia Woolf, Writer Interview, Workshop, Book Deal, Amy Shearn, Writing, Fiction, How to Write, Authors, Writing Class, Surrogate Mother, James Joyce, Random House, Writer Interviews, Literary Agent, Susannah Prue, Yuppies, Proust, Book, Contemporary Fiction, PJ Mark, Surrogate, Media News
Cynthia Kling

"How Far is the Ocean from Here," by Amy Shearn has to be the weirdest, funniest saddest road novel I've ever read. A single 20-something agrees to surrogate for a pair of cozy yuppies.

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Balancing Motherhood, Marriage and Friendship: An Interview With Allison Winn Scotch

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Allison Winn Scotch, Maintaining Friendships, Time, Living News, Relationships, Infertility, Motherhood, Random House, Female Friendships, Virtual Friends, Isolation, Time of My Life, Friendship by the Book, Marriage, Loneliness, 30-Something, Weinstein Company, Syle, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Time of Your Life tells the story of Jillian -- a thirty-something, married, suburban mother -- who suddenly sees her life playing out a different way than it did seven years ago, jumps to fix it, and takes the reader along for the ride

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Jack Reacher, Once More Into the Breach - An Audio Book Review

Tom Alderman | Posted 10.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Dick Hill, Lee Child, Clint Eastwood, Bad Day at Black Rock, Jack Reacher, Hope, Despair, Rambo, Colorado, Random House, Bad Luck and Trouble, Random House Audio, Media News
Tom Alderman

TITLE: "Nothing To Lose" AUTHOR: Lee Child (The Jack Reacher Series) GENRE: Muscular Mystery LENGTH: 14 hours, unabridged PUBLISHER: ...

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Random House Cancels New Book For Fear Of Islamic Reaction, Prompting Criticism From Rushdie

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 09.15.2008 | Media

Read More: The Jewel of Medina, Salman Rushdie, Random House, Islamic Radicalism, Islamic Fundamentalism, Media News

NEW YORK — Salman Rushdie strongly criticized his publisher for pulling a historical novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride over c...

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Greening Hollywood: Green Books & Recycling Art for Kids and Tots

Paige Donner | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Truffula Trees, Green Books for Kids, Paintbox Kids, Re-Purpose, Re-Use, Workshop, Recycled Art, Trees of Peace, Nobel Peace Prize, Random House, Dr. Seuss, Planting the Trees of Kenya, Farrar Straus Giroux, Wangari, Lorax, Parenting, Parenting Advice, Green News
Paige Donner

Dr. Seuss spoke through the Lorax to warn us against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty. And this was long before saving the earth became a global concern.

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Random House CEO Peter Olson To Step Down: Sources

New York Times | Mark Landler | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media

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Peter W. Olson, the chief executive of Random House and one of the most powerful figures in American book publishing, will step down in the next few w...

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"Money Honey" Maria Bartiromo Sells Book For $500K

New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo has sold a book to Crown, a division of Random House, for an advance several knowledgable sources said was in the neighbor...

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