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Bookmarks: Simon & Schuster’s bad year, Book Oven launches, and more

Sundry links from around the Web: Simon & Schuster's operating profits decline by 58% for the year Gil Adamson featured in the Guardian Book Oven, a collaborative literary community run by BookCamp Toronto's Hugh McGuire, ... Read More »

August 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Court rules against S&S in Stephen King text messaging case

By Scott MacDonald

The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against Simon & Schuster today, saying that the publishing firm violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in its advertising campaign for Stephen King's horror novel The Cell. According to ... Read More »

June 22, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

Amazon: more than just a bookstore

By Stuart Woods

Time magazine book critic and tech columnist Lev Grossman follows up his report earlier this year about the future of literature with a new article, written with reporter Andrea Sachs, examining the impact Amazon is ... Read More »

June 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

Richard Nash: Publishers as partners, not gatekeepers

By Stuart Woods

BookExpo America's trade show officially kicks off today, but the annual industry gathering is already well underway. At one of the preliminary seminars on Thursday, indie publishing veteran Richard Nash, formerly the publisher of Soft ... Read More »

May 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Parsing Black Wednesday

By Stuart Woods

One of the worst weeks in U.S. publishing history has left the book trade facing a grim tally. Just to sum up, on Wednesday three of the biggest publishers south of the border announced massive ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Big shake-ups at Random House U.S.

By Scott MacDonald

There's some scary stuff going on at Random House in the U.S. today. Industry observers anticipated changes to the company's organizational structure after new CEO Markus Dohle took over earlier this year, but few could ... Read More »

December 3, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Partisan publishing

By Stuart Woods

Slate columnist Timothy Noah takes on a new book by right-wing journalist Jerome R. Corsi, calling it an unambiguous smear-job against presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Hearst magazines go with Canada-only prices

By Stuart Woods

In a story that's near and dear to our hearts here at Quillblog, The Toronto Star is reporting that Hearst Magazines “ which publishes Cosmopolitan, Oprah Magazine, Seventeen, Good Housekeeping, Popular Mechanics and Esquire “ ... Read More »

December 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Ghetto lit goes mainstream

By Stuart Woods

Possibly the most vital – and certainly the most gratuitous – debate in American letters is occurring almost entirely under the radar. The controversy surrounds a body of work referred to variously as ghetto, urban, ... Read More »

October 16, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Fresh on Q&Q's Job Board

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This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Sales Representative (Vancouver), Higher Education Division - Oxford University Press(Vancouver, BC) Sales Associate / National Accounts - Simon & Schuster Canada (Markham, ON.) Rights Contracts Associate - Random House ... Read More »

September 12, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: Simon & Schuster

Bookmarks: Simon & Schuster’s bad year, Book Oven launches, and more

Court rules against S&S in Stephen King text messaging case

Richard Nash: Publishers as partners, not gatekeepers

Parsing Black Wednesday

Big shake-ups at Random House U.S.

Partisan publishing

Hearst magazines go with Canada-only prices

Ghetto lit goes mainstream

Fresh on Q&Q's Job Board

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