Publishing Jobs: Random House, HarperCollins, Rodale
This week, Random House is hiring a new editor, while HarperCollins is looking for a rights coordinator. Rodale is seeking a publicist, and Hachette Book Group is hiring a publicist, too. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additi...
Rebecca Skloot & Constance Hale Join Mediabistro Literary Festival
Want to finish your book this summer? From July 16 through August 1, 2012, Mediabistro will host its first Literary Festival & Workshops.
Among our long list of guests, Rebecca Skloot (pictured) will share some Unconventional Publicity tips and Con...
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Trilogy Sells 10 Million Copies in 6 Weeks
Vintage has sold a combined total of ten million trade paperback, eBook and audiobook copies of E.L. James‘ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy in the last six weeks.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group president Anthony Chirico had this statement: “...
John Oakes Urges Publishers to Sell eBooks Directly
John Oakes, the co-founder of OR Books, has written an opinion piece for Publisher’s Weekly, encouraging publishers to free themselves from the traditional print book supply chain (as well as from the shackles of Amazon) by selling eBooks directl...
Carol Burnett to Publish a Book about Her Daughter
Actress and author Carol Burnett has landed a book deal with Simon & Schuster to publish Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story. The memoir will explore her “relationship with her daughter Carrie Hamilton, an actress and writer who died ...
Philip K. Dick Total Recall eBook Coming
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired the eBook rights to “We Can Remember it For You Wholesale,” the short story by the late Philip K. Dick that inspired the Total Recall movie in 1990 and an upcoming remake (trailer embedded above).
The Wylie ...
Orange to End Sponsorship of Prize for Fiction
Orange Prize for Fiction co-founder Kate Mosse revealed today that the mobile phone company Orange will end its sponsorship of the U.K. literary award that bears its name.
The Prize for Fiction carries a £30,000 award, and winners receive a bronze fig...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Files for Bankruptcy
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has officially filed a major restructuring plan to redistribute the company’s $3.1 billion in debt, entering what they called “a prompt, court-supervised, chapter 11 process.”
The company predicts they will emerge from...
Hachette To Test eBook Pilot Program At Libraries
After pulling its new eBook titles from libraries back in 2010, the Hachette Book Group is testing a pilot program to offer new eBooks in libraries this spring.
Hachette currently offers backlist eBook titles for check out in libraries, but not new tit...
