Kaplan transformed the New York Observer and was part of the city's publishing elite during the magazine era's last golden agePeter Kaplan, who died on Friday at 59, of cancer, was an editor whose career spanned and encapsulated what one of his many employees and protégées – John Homans now at New York Magazine – calls the "late Renaissance" of American journalism.It is a career mainly associated with the New York Observer, which he edited for 15 years, but one that also tells a larger story of how the world turned in New York publishing. Kaplan came to the city from Harvard in 1976, when print – newspapers, books, magazines – was arguably the most influential business in the city. Time, Inc was Google. Ivy League editors were princes among the mighty. He went to work at New Times, a bi-weekly feature news magazine, launched a few years before by Jon Larsen (whose father was of the Time, Inc elite) and George Hirsch, a former publisher of New York Magazine, from which all other magazines of the period descended. New York was started by Clay Felker, who all editors aspired to be. (New York, after 45 years as a weekly, has just announced that it is scaling down to a biweekly schedule.)Single title magazine companies seemed like a reasonable model and could be found all over town – or, as it were, midtown. Who didn't want to be in publishing?In 1976, Rupert Murdoch launched a successful hostile takeover of New York Magazine, which also got him its sister publication the... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Group SJR has hired Pulitzer Prize winners and is stepping up its international expansion to compete with publishers' native ad studios for marketing spend. The post WPP touts its journalism cred in battle for branded content appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rick Wolff, who was laid off from Hachette in June, has been hired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to start a new line of business books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Much of the media coverage of libraries in 2014 to date has centered on the modest progress made on the ebook issue. But 2014 has been a year of significant progress for libraries in the public policy sphere, with a number of library initiatives advancing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The BBC have optioned Peter May's Lewis Trilogy for a new drama series. According to the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can't remember the plot of that mystery you just read? A new study determines: maybe it's your Kindle's fault. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Guardian journalist and co-author of a savagely funny book about the Sun newspaper, Stick It Up Your Punter!Pugnacious and anarchic, the former Guardian journalist Peter Chippindale, who has died aged 69 of kidney failure, assured his reputation with one savagely funny book Stick It Up... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Silvertail Books has signed a book of business lessons from British... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With the launch of Kindle Unlimited (KU), Amazon’s subscription service, consumer-oriented ebook subscription services are beginning to look like a coming thing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the new era of digital media, everyone’s a publisher — celebrities, nobodies, spy agencies, house plants and, especially, brands. Building “the plumbing” for brands that want to be part of this new era, and ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph has appointed Jessica Leeke to the role of editorial director. Leeke, currently... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pricing has always been a sensitive topic for publishers and libraries, dating back to the advent of “big deal” style e-journal packages and the so-called serials crisis. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Terry Eagleton is a bookseller's nightmare. "They simply don't know where to put me," he says. With good reason: the pre-eminent cultural critic and distinguished professor has written on cultural theory, politics, and history, as well as a memoir and a novel. In recent years, his attention has... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gambon starred as wizard Dumbledore in the movie series based on 'Vacancy' author J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' novels. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sci-fi and fantasy fiction is entering a golden age of short fiction thanks to social media, crowdfunding and a loyal community of ardent fansA man wakes up from a car crash to find that he is an "electric ant": an android programmed to believe it is human. At home he uses micro-tools to open... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An experiment in digital publishing continues to evolve.Medium, the publisher-platform hybrid backed by Twitter cofounder Ev Williams, is relaunching Matter today. As you may recall Matter was a successful Kickstarter project for in-depth reporting that Medium acquired last year.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Even though Jacqueline Woodson’s latest release, Brown Girl Dreaming (Penguin/Paulsen, Aug.), is set during the 1960s and ’70s, its themes are still relevant today, especially after a controversy erupted last month over the lack of diversity in BookCon’s initial lineup of authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How does a Montana horseman and carpenter by trade write a first novel that is getting the kind of advance press garnered by Cold Mountain? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After years of trying to write a memoir, Michael Coffey, the outgoing co-editorial director of Publishers Weekly, realized that fiction was the best way to extend ruminations about what it meant for him to be adopted. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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