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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
PW’s Web coverage of Digital Book 2008 is here, with well-deserved mentions of experimentation at Harlequin, Random House and elsewhere—including RH’s tests of an ad-supported model and user-customized books. Just add your photo and dedication. I don't see any PW references to ePub, bizarrely, even though it was on the agenda. Hey, what do you [...]
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PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | yesterday
We hope some of you had the opportunity to swing by your local Likemind coffee morning today. PSFK was lucky enough to meet some likeminds in both Brooklyn and Manhattan and share in the mutual enthusiasm over Rob Walker’s soon-to-be-released book, Buying In (thanks, Random House!). The book and conversation inspired us to do a [...]
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seeking spirit (Free subscription) | yesterday
this is a poem I wrote more than a year ago when I was recognizing the level of conflict and potential for split within the communion…. I’M NOT SURE I CAN DO THIS By Sharon Moon Based on: “Goodbye, New York” by Deborah Garrison, from The Second Child. © Random House. Goodbye, Anglican Home (a song from the wrong side of the [...]
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educating alice (Free subscription) | yesterday
The City of Ember movie trailer is up (thanks to Dotti Enderle for letting child_lit know) and looks very cool. Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, and Martin Landau are in it! Opens 10.10.08. and At yesterday's Random House preview I learned that there is one final book coming out in the series: The Diamond of Darkhold. The publication [...]
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Penguin hired two prominent publishing executives -- Random House's Don Weisberg and Scholastic's Barbara Marcus -- to bolster their children's division.
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PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Likemind coffee morning takes place this Friday around the world. As a special treat for those of you in North America, Rob Walker (author of the NY Times Magazine “Consumed” column and blogger at http://murketing.com) & Random House were kind enough to supply early copies of Rob’s new book “Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between [...]
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InfoIsland.org (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Rich Idiot Island and Crown Publishing, a subsidiary of Random House, are pleased to welcome bestselling author Robert Shemin and to announce a program of fun and informative events in the virtual world of Second Life. Shemin's recent bestselling book “How Come This Idiot's Rich and I’m Not” came out in March 2008. Rich Idiot [...]
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Peter Olson of Random House fixed his reputation in the publishing industry when he displayed a smirking glee at the number of editors he'd fired. (Never let Lynn Hirschberg of the Times follow you...
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Ebury Publishing Blog (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
I’m tooting the Ebury Marketing horn a little bit today. Last month, Ben highlighted the Random House Group’s fantastic widget, which is being rolled out across our frontlist and backlist titles as we speak, but as Ebury we do a lot of stuff online as well. Of course, we have our facebook profile, [...]
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PersonaNonData (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The FT speculates with the aggrandising title, All Eyes on Random that we are all on the edges of our seats wondering who will be the next CEO of Random House. The paper suggests that RH is set to be managed by someone outside the industry either from the services unit Arvato or the Direct Group. From the article: People familiar with Random House’s parent Bertelsmann...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
In writing about the (apparently soon to come) ouster of Random House head Peter Olson Marion Maneker suggests: If you want to understand book publishing, you need to think less Bloomsbury and more Gambino.
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
New York-based Random House, the world's largest book publisher, looks set to be managed by a European executive from outside the book industry after its chief executive, American Peter Olson, announces his departure in the coming weeks. People familiar with Random House’s parent Bertelsmann said that the German media group had decided against promoting Random House...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
He was 'world's best author' once, but Saroyan's fame has slipped FRESNO, Calif. – After his acclaimed first book of short stories was published in 1934, William Saroyan sent a letter to Random House asking: “Do you think it would help any if I was photographed swinging on a trapeze?”
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mellart (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Ed Piskor has collaborated with Harvey Pekar on American Splendor. He and Mr. Pekar are currently wrapping up a graphic novel called "MACEDONIA" for Random House.
