Astute publisher and British Museum chair behind fundraising for the Great CourtGraham Greene, who has died aged 80, was one of the leading publishers of his generation, as well as giving huge public service in an impressive range of activities, usually unpaid. As managing director of Jonathan Cape from 1966 to 1988, he built this small, cottage-industry publisher into a top name for developing outstanding authors and publishing quality books, both fiction and non-fiction. Benign and genial in manner, Graham had a keen eye for literary talent and a managerial ability to soothe artistic egos. He nurtured young authors so that they would remain long on the Cape lists, and greatly appreciated the commercial and marketing skills of his charismatic partner, Tom Maschler; together they were a formidable team.Eventually, Cape was sold to the giant Random House. Graham retired from the business as he recognised that he was personally and professionally unsuited to the ruthless new publishing world, driven by accountant directors seeking to maximise short-term profits from illiterate celebrity authors who often did not read, let alone write, their ghost-written memoirs. He recently said that “in all my publishing career, I never asked myself how many copies a book would sell. I simply asked: is it good?” Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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For the second week in a row, "The Fault in Our Stars" was the top selling title on Apple's iBooks bestseller list. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Top academic publisher who joined Cambridge University Press as a graduate trainee and became a managing director in 2002Andrew Brown, who has died aged 63 of cancer, was one of the leading academic publishers of his generation. Having joined Cambridge University Press as a graduate trainee in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One of the first women to write about wine, she was known for her prickly putdowns and forthright views about food and drinkPamela Vandyke Price, who has died aged 90, was the first woman in Britain to write seriously about wine and spirits. Writing about drinking – its tastes, smells,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Leading Sunday Times journalist who was the first editor of its groundbreaking investigative Insight unitRon Hall, a former top executive of the Sunday Times in its pre-Murdoch golden era, has died aged 79. Hall's distinctions were many: first editor of the paper's successful investigative unit,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Graham has been appointed as publishing consultant at Anova Books Group Ltd. Graham was... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher adept at balancing the demands of literature and commerce, and a notable writer on artIn his prime, with his coloured shirts, red braces, bright bow ties and macho cigars there were few more flamboyant London publishers than Tom Rosenthal, who has died aged 78. But the extravagant top... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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My friend Mary Cowan, who has died aged 99, rebelled against her privileged background and in the 1930s became a communist.She was born in Edinburgh, where her father, John Jameson, was the Conservative MP for Edinburgh West. Her mother, Margaret (nee Smith), was the daughter of a master of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Britain's first homegrown existentialist star, he failed to follow up the huge success of his 1956 book, The OutsiderFor a few dazzling months, Colin Wilson, who has died aged 82, was taken at his own valuation in his diary as "the major literary genius of our century", a writer destined to be... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nearly 16 months after the Québec publishing industry began its quest for fixed pricing on new titles, they finally got what they wanted...sort of. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher of military history books and husband of Jilly CooperLeo Cooper, who has died aged 79 after suffering from Parkinson's disease, was a publisher with a zeal for military history, who also enjoyed some notoriety as the husband of the novelist Jilly Cooper.Leo's hospitality was out of all... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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My friend Paul Westlake, who has died of cancer aged 65, was a pillar of the radical publishing world from the mid-1970s onwards. He was an advocate of workers' co-operatives and gained much experience in ensuring that the output of independent publishers reached the bookshops.In autumn 1976,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Journalist, biographer and author who explored the history of property ownership in AmericaThe Scottish author Andro Linklater was fascinated by the relationship between people and land. His death at the age of 68 from a heart attack came while he was on the isle of Eigg, researching for a new... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Washington Post Co. announced Monday that it will change its name to Graham Holdings Company, acknowledging the Oct. 1 sale of the company’s flagship newspaper and several other publishing businesses to Amazon.com founder Jeffrey P. Bez ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women's Prize for Fiction winner A M Homes and Man Booker-longlisted Richard House are among... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Richard House's The Kills (Picador), Charlotte Mendelson's Almost English (Mantle), and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ASAE and its 21,000 members represent leading trade association, individual membership societies and voluntary organizations across the United States and in 50 countries around the world. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With the publishing industry dealing with problems caused first by the Great Recession and then by the transition to a more digitally oriented marketplace, it is easy to think that environmental concerns have been pushed far down companies’ to-do lists. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Jane Green has moved to Pan Macmillan from Penguin in a deal which will see her... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin has secured deals in 25 languages for Sally Green's YA debut Half Bad within 13 weeks... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US publisher Chelsea Green has partnered with Publishers Group UK for sales and distribution.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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