We'd like to take a moment to call your attention to the Tumblr of Knopf publicity director Paul Bogaards, where he has published a conceptual power list (A man after our own hearts!) delineating the hierarchy of book publishing in 2012. Read More
Yesterday Mat Honan wrote a blog post for Gizmodo asking if Amazon was "letting publishers ruin the Kindle." The blogger had trouble reading Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 across his array of mobile devices, and decided it was probably because the publisher of the book, Knopf, had decided to ruin the Kindle and restrict books to a single device. He failed to place a phone call to Knopf to see if the synching problem wasn't due to some lightning storm in the humid Amazonian data cloud. Read More
On the occasion of his 25th anniversary of designing book covers for Knopf, Chip Kidd discusses the design for the cover of Haruki Murakami's new novel, 1Q84. Mr. Kidd engaged in "positive-negative play with the cover and the binding" that allows the subject on the cover to "exist in two different planes of reality."
Bill Clinton is writing another book! Called Back to Work, it's going to tell everyone how to get America “back into the future business.” In a statement from Knopf, the book is said to detail "how we can get out of the current economic crisis and lay a foundation for long-term prosperity. He offers specific Read More
Julian Assange's autobiography--which he initially championed and then tried to cancel--will be published in the U.K. tomorrow by Canongate, its British publisher. Its American publisher has decided not to go along, however.
"We cancelled our contract for Julian Assange’s memoir," wrote Knopf spokesperson Paul Bogaards in an e-mail to The Observer. Read More
Robert Gates just retired from his job as secretary of defense. Now, of course, he is writing not one but two books. The first, to be published in 2013, will be a memoir about his experience as the only secretary of defense to serve two different presidents from both parties while at war the entire Read More
Julian Assange has inked a deal to release his memoirs, which will follow the 39-year-old transparency advocate's journey from his youth as a hacker in Australia to his current status as controversial founder of Wikileaks. The book was acquired by Knopf, a division of Random House, in the U.S. and Canongate in the U.K., Read More
Lavish is not a word normally associated with book parties. Most of them are characterized by warm white wine and pallid cubes of cheese. Unless you are a member of the celebrated Guinness family, in which case your guests will be treated to Blood Orange Bellinis and delicate crab cakes in a mind-blowingly glamorous apartment Read More
A while back, friends encouraged author Norman Sprinrad to turn his failed French history screenplay into a novel. Doing so would require some connections, of course—did Sprinrad know any New York editors who might be able to make it happen?
Well, I said, I think there's this guy who was an editor at a secondary science Read More
Picador UK is promoting Bret Easton Ellis' Imperial Bedrooms with a game that is sort of offensive but mostly just boring. Upon visiting "The Devil in You" site, users assume the role of a sleazy producer filming an audition with a young actress. After the actress reads, the site gives one the opportunity Read More
Knopf announced today that they have acquired the rights to Sonia Sotomayor's memoir. Agent Peter Bernstein negotiated the deal, and George Andreou will be editing.
According to Knopf, the yet-untitled book will be "a coming-of-age memoir by an American daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants."
"Sonia Sotomayor has lived a remarkable life and her achievements will prove an Read More
Time to relax post-BEA—summer Fridays, the publishing world's traditional long weekends, start today. So! Pack the many free totes you collected with some (non-required??) reading and head for the Jitney now.
Or seek out a more creative destination. Knopf publicity director Paul Bogaards, who had a pretty good week with the new Stieg Larsson, Read More
“Nobody throws book parties anymore," read the invitation to Wednesday night’s Knopf party. "So come party with a bunch of nobodies.”
Guests included Carl Hiaasen, Nicholas Kristof, Nora Ephron and Joseph O'Neill.
Nina Bourne--the legendary Knopf advertising director who died last month at 93--was memorialized Wednesday afternoon at the New York Ethical Culture Society.
"A meeting-up of the old Knopf family," was how Jane Friedman said she'd described the service to Random House CEO Markus Dohle. But the crowd that assembled Wednesday also included the family Ms. Bourne Read More
HarperCollins announced today that they'll be publishing a new book by Sarah Palin--who is, as you'll recall, "the #1 New York Times bestselling author of GOING ROGUE: An American Life." According to a press release, the yet-untitled book "will be a celebration of American virtues and strengths."Meanwhile, Knopf says they'll be publishing Tony Blair's memoir, Read More
