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Tag: 05.09.14
Executive Director Unexpectedly Quits Ballet San José
Stephanie Ziesel “oversaw the troupe through a turbulent stretch during which it dismissed its founding artistic director, Dennis Nahat, and reshuffled its board of directors. Ballet officials sang her praises but would not comment on the specifics behind this parting of the ways.”
Amazon Argues With A Publisher, And Writers Get Hurt
“Among Amazon’s tactics against Hachette, some of which it has been employing for months, are charging more for its books and suggesting that readers might enjoy instead a book from another author. If customers for some reason persist and buy a Hachette book anyway, Amazon is saying it will take weeks to deliver it.”
What Happens When A Young Publisher Decides To Create A Beautiful Online Magazine (Called ‘Sex’)
“After doing 10 publications that made very little money, I realized I really didn’t want to be a book publisher. I didn’t want to deal with stock anymore. I didn’t want deal with inventory.”
Amazon Is Telling Some Customers Their Mainstream Publishers’ Books Won’t Be Available For Five Weeks
So much for instant drone delivery: “The affected books are a mixture of new and old. A just-published memoir, ‘Everybody’s Got Something,’ by the ‘Good Morning America’ anchor Robin Roberts, is taking as long as three weeks to ship, customers were told. So is Stephen Colbert’s ‘America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t.'”