Eoin Purcell
The assassination doesn’t stop commerce it seems:
BOOK publisher HarperCollins, which just received the manuscript for Benazir Bhutto’s upcoming book, is now moving quickly to get it on the shelves by February following yesterday’s assassination of the former Pakistani prime minister.
Source: The New York Post
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Eoin Purcell
I don’t normally post about my job here
But sometimes it is worthwhile. I have just received signed contracts in the post, signed yesterday* and they made me extremely happy.
GRANDAD is writing a book for Mercier Press
I have been a reader of Head Rambles for a while now and love it. I have been […]
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From the the horse’s mouth
Declan Burke has gotten a US deal for his excellent The Big O:
it has come to pass that the lovely people at Harcourt have in their infinite wisdom decided that THE BIG O is as good a tax deductible as any, and will be putting it between covers in the very […]
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Posted in Acquisitions, Agents, Authors, Books, Bookselling, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, HarperCollins, e-publishing, e-submissions, tagged Authonomy.com, Editing, Reading, Slush Pile, Submissions on October 10, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Eoin Purcell
What is it?
The bookseller news item has the full breakdown (see below) but you can read some more here on MSN and a bit of analysis here:
Authonomy, at www.authonomy.com, will initially be rolled out by HCUK in early 2008, with the intention of it becoming a global programme in the future. The site will […]
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Posted in Acquisitions, BBC Worldwide, Books, Companies & Organisations, Future of Publishing, Lonely Planet, Publishing, tagged BBC Worldwide, Business, Deals, Lonely Planet, News on October 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Eoin Purcell
Seems like a good buy to me
For details read here or here or here.
I have been noticing that Lonely Planet has been extending its brand very subtly recently. For instance moving into non-specific travel books like this one or this one and launching a nice set of pictorial books too. The combination of BBC […]
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