SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Marvel Publishing joins forces this fall with horrormeister Stephen King to transform The Stand into a series of comics through a licensing agreement with the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group.
Major Spoilers (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
NEW YORK –Through a licensing agreement with The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., Marvel Publishing joins forces this fall with World Fantasy Award-winning writer Stephen King, long acknowledged as the master of modern horror, to bring to life in the graphic fiction format one of the most revered and influential [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
The company formally known as the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group has chosen to relaunch itself as, simply, Doubleday Publishing Group . Officially, this isn't happening until next Wednesday, when the logo you see to your left will appear on the spine of Devil May Care , the James Bond novel Sebastian Faulks is writing as Ian Fleming . However, the company website is already infused with the new...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
Janet Silver, recently ousted as publisher of Houghton Mifflin's adult trade division in the wake of the company's merger with Harcourt, has been appointed editor at large at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, an imprint of the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group. Last month Ms. Silver, 53, was edged out of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adult Trade Books when Becky Saletan, publisher of the trade division of Harcourt,...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
Doubleday threw a party last night for Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau, who were celebrating the official launch of their new imprint at Random House ( read all about it ). Wait, no, it's not an imprint—Doubleday Broadway president Stephen Rubin made a point of this during his speech. “A new publishing house!” he said, twice. “Not an imprint.” He emphasized that this does not happen every day. The party...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk magazine, has signed with Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group to write a portrait of the Clinton era.
Big Bad Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2007
:: Globe and Mail: Golden Compass Not Anti-Religious, Movie’s Star Says Days after an Ontario school board temporarily pulled copies of Philip Pullman's popular fantasy novel The Golden Compass from their shelves, the people bringing it to the big screen, including actor Daniel Craig, have come to its defence. :: Publishers Weekly: More Publishers Go With TurnHere TurnHere, [...]
Big Bad Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
:: Atlanta Journal Constitution: World's Worst Book Title Winner The winner was “Cooking With Pooh,” which is a real book from Disney. It barely beat out “Letting It Go: a History of American Incontinence,” “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification” (which I think maybe some people did not realize [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
When TurnHere launched the Bookvideos.tv website earlier this year, its short promotional films were produced exclusively for Simon & Schuster...
901am (Free subscription) | 11/19/2007
TurnHere announced the launch of the multi-publisher book-centric network, Bookvideos.tv. The site will feature videos from leading publishing houses including Bantam Dell, Chronicle, Disney (Hyperion), Doubleday Broadway, Hachette Book Group, Loyola Press, MacMillan, Simon & Schuster, Thomas Nelson and WW Norton. Together with the publishers, TurnHere will produce videos that tell the stories behind...
Farther Off the Wall (Free subscription) | 11/09/2007
Vin Scully isn't pleased about an admitted unauthorized biography done on him, as we pointed out in today's Daily News media column. UCLA basketball fans aren't happy about watching videostreaming on CSTV, as we also pointed out. And Joe Theismann...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/22/2007
The trend seems as plain as the nose on your child's face, or an arrow through your head. There's Madonna, Billy Crystal and Jamie Lee Curtis. And Jerry Seinfeld. And John Lithgow. And Katie Couric.
Yale Press Log (Free subscription) | 09/25/2007
For Immediate Release: September 25, 2007 Yale University Press Acquires Anchor Bible Series from Doubleday New York and New Haven— The Anchor Bible Series, a prestigious collection of more than 115 volumes of biblical scholarship, has been acquired by Yale...
Marketing News (Free subscription) | 08/20/2007
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/17/2007
Vanity Fair columnist and Burn Rate author Michael Wolff has signed with Doubleday to write the definitive account of Rupert Murdoch's rise to power, culminating in his recent $5 billion takeover of Dow Jones. Doubleday Broadway editor-in-chief Bill Thomas bought North American and German rights, as well as audio, in an auction conducted by Andrew Wylie, in a deal said to be in the high six figures....
