Wolfe left longtime publisher over money
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Roger Straus, the late founder and longtime leader of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, regarded his company as a family and liked to boast that "We publish authors, not books."
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Recent troubles at the Miami Herald did not suddenly lead to Friday's announcement that Tom Fiedler, the longtime executive editor, would be retiring soon. Fiedler told E&P today that he had actually decided to quit as early as mid-2005, but delayed the move after Knight Ridder put itself on the auction block last year.
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American novelist Thomas Wolfe once wrote a book entitled &quot;You Can&#39;t Go Home Again.&quot; His argument was that once the door to an era closes, it could never be opened again.
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News sites may be tempted by an advertising scheme that lets them profit from ads linked to selected words within an article. But publishers who value a separation of editorial and advertising content should steer clear. By Adam L. Penenberg.
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GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Every month, Mark Barnes used to buy $600 worth of new, name-brand inkjet and toner cartridges for printers that churn out a steady stream of contracts and marketing material in his real estate office.
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The nation's largest bookseller reports a fall in earnings and completes a spinoff.
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John F. Gallagher, a founder of 1-800-East-West Mortgage Co. and ISoldMyHouse.com and the radio voice of many of its ads, said he was fired yesterday by the bank that he and his wife sold their company to four years ago.
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German publishing executive Dieter von Holtzbrinck has resigned from Dow Jones &amp; Co.'s board to protest a deal to sell the company, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
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President Bush's re-election disappointed many in the publishing industry, a blue-state business where liberals have long predominated, but it has boosted sales for a few anti-Bush books, notably Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter With Kansas?"
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NEW YORK Steve Coll, the managing editor of The Washington Post for the past six years and the apparent front-runner to succeed the top editor, announced abruptly that he would step down at the end of the year to divide his time between writing books and
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The king of beer drops its full-year outlook by a penny.
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ESPN announced yesterday the signing of Rick Reilly, whose contract with Sports Illustrated expires at the end of November, to write the back-page column in ESPN the Magazine and to deliver essays on âSportsCenterâ during its golf coverage.Reilly said he succumbed to ESPN after rejecting offers 5 and 10 years ago. âThe money was ridiculous,â he said in a news media conference call. âThis is an itch Iâve always wanted to scratch, to take my voice to a different place.â Despite being on TV regularly with one-minute commentaries, he said ESPN wanted him for his column. âBelieve me, with this nose, I know whatâs best for me,â he said.
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Pearson, the publisher of The Financial Times and the owner of Penguin books, said that profit fell 29 percent in 2006, partly as a result of a gain in the prior year on the sale of its stake in a Spanish newspaper. Income for the company, which also has a 50 percent stake in The Economist magazine and owns the French newspaper Les Ãchos, dropped to Â£446 million ($875.4 million) from Â£624 million. Revenue rose 8 percent, to Â£4.4 billion ($8.7 billion) as 8 percent sales growth at the companyâs schools publishing business in the United States outweighed slower sales at Penguin. Ad revenue was up 9 percent at The Financial Times. Excluding one-time items, profit rose 38 percent, to Â£455 million ($893.6 million) in 2006.
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When the bookseller reclaims its site's management, new features, deals, and designs are in the offing.
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CondÃ© Nast, home to Vanity Fair and Vogue, among other magazines, announced the departure of its editorial director on Wednesday.
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In a changed but still heated partisan climate, political books are expected to remain a boon to publishers.
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The Associated Press is ending its book review package.