Random House and Crown merge under PRH’s continued consolidation efforts
Announced last Friday morning, two of Penguin Random House’s (PRH) most successful publishing groups, Crown Publishing Group and Random House, are merging. For the New York Times, Alexandra Alter reports… Read more »
Curtis Sittenfeld imagines what Hillary’s life would have looked like without Bill
The Clintons really aren’t going anywhere. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women International event last week, Hillary Clinton announced that she is “back to… Read more »
Lena Dunham publishes extracts from her college diary for charity
As we recently wrote on MobyLives, Lena Dunham has been making forays into publishing, launching an online mag and newsletter, Lenny Letter, and starting her own imprint at Random House, also… Read more »
Lena Dunham launches a new imprint with Random House
Lena Dunham can’t stop, won’t stop. In addition to writing, creating, and staring in the HBO series Girls; signing a book deal for more than $3.5 million in 2012; launching Lenny… Read more »
The latest scintillating chapter in the Fifty Shades series is royalty fraud
No publishing phenomenon—or really any phenomenon—can escape the tinge of litigation. Controversy can move pretty slowly, though. It’ll probably be years before coloring book guru Johanna Basford gets sued for… Read more »
The vanishing mass market: Penguin merges two mass market publishing houses to create new mass market publishing house
Earlier this week, Penguin announced it would be merging two of its mass market divisions, Berkley and New American Library, into one division, Berkley Publishing Group. According to Publishers Weekly, “Leslie Gelbman,… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: Let’s write a novel about publishing together!
Topics discussed: Thomas Pynchon, our Thomas Pynchon petition, the huge success of our Thomas Pynchon petition, liking books, loving books, #amreading, the We Love Books Party, the Constitution Party, arsenic,… Read more »
In Cold Blood is being adapted for TV
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote’s seminal 1966 book about the investigation into a quadruple murder in Kansas, is heading for the small screen sometime in the near future. Patrick Hipes… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: who will publish the ebooks?
Topics discussed: The Oscars, Inherent Vice, team trivia, Traffic, Traffic, ebook production, SAG Awards, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, misguided opinions, adolescence, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, self-publishing triumphalists, Mark… Read more »
The New Press hosts a tribute to André Schiffrin
Publishing colleagues, family members and admirers gathered in the Cooper Union Great Hall on Wednesday night to celebrate the life of André Schiffrin, the visionary publisher who refused to sacrifice… Read more »