April 10, 2012
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Jennifer Heuer is a book designer based in Brooklyn. Formerly a designer at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, she now runs her own studio out of the Pencil Factory. Jen’s striking inkblot design for 1000 Black Umbrellas by Daniel McGinn, … Continue reading
February 19, 2009
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Colin Robinson, former editor at Scribner (a division of Simon & Schuster) and previously at The New Press and Verso, has written an excellent diary piece for the London Review of Books on Publishing’s Demise. It’s always interesting to read … Continue reading
February 2, 2009
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The publishing industry is finally turning toward “mass digitization”, Matthew Shaer reports in The Christian Science Monitor . But “it’s not the bigger houses, such as Macmillan or HarperCollins, that are moving the fastest” he says. It is agile independent … Continue reading
December 4, 2008
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There has been relentless torrent of grim publishing news coming out of New York the last few days. It has, at times, been hard to keep up with it all, and I don’t know the people involved well enough or … Continue reading
November 13, 2008
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According Carolyn Reidy, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, a worse publishing environment may be on the way, reports Publishers Weekly: Reidy said she hesitated to use the word “crisis” but “there is no question that we are currently … Continue reading