Publishers Weekly articles from January 1998, page 5

Publishers Weekly archives from January 1998

New HC imprint will focus on brand publishing. (HarperHorizon, a new imprint from HarperCollins that will produce books in partnership with licensers and existing organizations)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... HARPERCOLLINS'S newest imprint, HarperHorizon, will release its first titles in late February, said John Silbersack, senior v-p and publishing director of HarperHorizon. HC has positioned HarperHorizon as a brand publishing imprint...

NyBooks.Com is new lit zine online bookseller. (new literary e-zine on the Internet that is a collaboration between the publications New York Review of Books, Granta, and Reader's Catalogue)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... THREE NOTABLE New York City literary publications-the New York Review of Books, Granta and the Reader's Catalogue--have joined together to launch a collaborative literary Webzine and retailing venture called nybooks.com. The Web...

The tip of the iceberg. (hit movie 'Titanic' spurs sales of both new and backlist books about the disaster)
January 12, 1998... THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG Movie tie-in titles often make it onto bestseller charts but Titanic, the country's hottest movie ticket--$157.5 million during its first 17 days (not to mention Broadway's Tony Award-winning musical, which,...

Millbrook results up in first quarter. (Millbrook Press' revenues for the first quarter ending Oct 31, 1997, were up 22% to $4 million)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... MILLBROOK PRESS enjoyed a "significant increase" in trade sales for the first quarter ended October 31, 1997, which helped push total revenues up 22%, to $4 million. Millbrook reported net income in the quarter of $251,000, compared to...

Perkins to head AWL's Latin ops. (Addison Wesley Longman names G. Frederick Perkins president of AWL Iberoamericana)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... AS PART OF its effort to expand its presence in Latin America, Addison Wesley Longman has appointed G. Frederick Perkins president of AWL Iberoamericana. In his new position, Perkins will be responsible for all AWL operations in Latin...

Good writers, serious topics - at less than $10 each: new Ballantine series will test the market for short yet meaningful nonfiction. (The Library of Contemporary Thought series)
January 12, 1998... New Ballantine series will test the market for short yet meaningful nonfiction COMIC NOVELIST Carl Hiaasen vituperates the worldwide Disney menace. Sports jourlalist John Feinstein expounds on he dubious role-model potential of...

A 'Perfect Storm' spinoff, of sorts. (sea captain Linda Greenlaw, who is featured in bestseller 'Perfect Storm,' lands a book deal with Hyperion)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... A 'PERFECT STORM' SPINOFF, OF SORTS Beating out other interested publishers, Hyperion executive editor Will Schwalbe paid a rumored $150,000 advance for a book by Linda Greenlaw, the real-life female sea captain who is featured in...

SMP plans big push for James W. Hall. (thriller writer lands $1.7 million, three-book deal with SMP)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... SMP PLANS BIG PUSH FOR JAMES W. HALL "It was time for him to get away from [customary hero] Thorn, and get a new publisher and a fresh agent," said agent Richard Pine about the new directions for former Delacorte thriller writer...

Broadway buys 'Tuscan' sequel, and more. (publisher signs author Frances Mayes to write sequel to bestseller 'Under the Tuscan Sun')(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... BROADWAY BUYS 'TUSCAN' SEQUEL, AND MORE Given that Broadway now has 345,000 copies of Under the Tuscan Sun in print in trade paper, it's no surprise that Broadway senior editor Charlie Conrad has signed up the author, native Georgia...

Cochran project goes to Doubleday. (OJ Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran signs six-figure book deal)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... COCHRAN PROJECT GOES TO DOUBLEDAY Former O.J. trial defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran, who was paid a rumored $4 million-plus for the O.J. disappointment Journey to Justice last year, has now received a share in a much lower, rumored...

Rights.(book rights sold)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... SOLE SURVIVOR Being named the sexiest man in America on the cover of People was just what George Clooney needed to get Universal to buy a novel he's been wanting for his production company. Gates of Fire by Steven Cressfield deals...

Books Now, for those who just can't wait: Las Vegas company offers Web links and toll-free number in scores of publications.(book order company)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... Las Vegas company offers Web links and toll-free number in scores of publications SEVERAL YEARS AGO, David Chazin was rummaging through his desk for a review he'd recently read, unable to remember the title of a certain book....

The multiplex lobby: not just for Milk Duds anymore.(Reel Books, booksellers at motion picture multiplexes)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... ONCE UPON A TIME, a trip to a multiplex lobby meant one of two things: you needed either a popcorn refill or a respite from the "Ishtar-esque" goings-on inside the theater. Now, thanks to Reel Books, you can make the excursion for an...

A Colorado downtown's demise, bookwise.(Grand Junction, CO)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... AND THEN THERE was one. The downtown area of Grand Junction, Colo. (pop. 50,000), once housed three independent bookstores. But the planned closing of the 65-year-old 2500-sq.-ft. Readmor Book and Magazine Newsstand sometime this...

Little Professor dropout takes new name.(Ann Arbor bookstore goes independent, renamed Nicola's Books)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... FOR NICOLA ROONEY, January 1 involved more than hangovers and grandiose resolutions. That was the day her Little Professor store in Ann Arbor, Mich., went independent, becoming Nicola's Books. It ended an unsuccessful six-month...

Powell's extends a helping hand to area libraries.(book chain makes donations to Portland and Beaverton, OR, public school libraries)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... LAST MONTH, SCORES of Portland, Ore., book shoppers mumbled a non sequitur when they stepped up to buy books. It wasn't the stress of the holiday season messing with their brains but Powell's "It's for Kids" program. When a customer...

Children's regionals get organized; collective efforts keep enthusiasm high among booksellers.
January 12, 1998... DESPITE A GENERAL uneasiness in the children's book business over the closing of high-profile stores like The Little Book Room in Milton, Mass., and Oz Books in Southwest Harbor, Maine, children's bookselling and regional organizations...

Letter from London. (information about the publishing industry and publishing executives in London, England)
January 12, 1998... REED'S CHILDREN'S DIVISION, which has been on the market for over a year, looks likely to be sold this month. Penguin was due to sign a deal in mid-December but sources say the date has been pushed forward to mid-January. Initially...

Dana's Best Sing and Swing-A-Long Tunes: Classic and Cool Jazz for Kids.
January 12, 1998... Classic & Cool Jazz for Kids Dana. Real Music for Kids (800-557-3262), CD $14.95, cassette $9.95,40 min. Kids are sure to get the dancing bug while listening to Dana's jumpin' renditions of several favorite jazz standards and some...

Blue Jay, Blue Jay: Play Along Activity Songs for the Younger Years.
January 12, 1998... Play Along Activity Songs for the Younger Years Paul Strausman. A Gentle Wind (888386-7664), cassette $9.95 ISBN 0-939065-59-2 Strausman's soothing vocals and assured guitar playing shine on this album of original, playful tunes...

Water: Close Up and Personal.
January 12, 1998... Close Up and Very Personal Stage Fright Productions (800-232-6206), 30 min., $14.95 Stage Fright makes a splash with the latest entry in its fine Close Up and Very Personal series of nonfiction videos. Like its predecessors...

Marketing 'faith-ful' celebrity stories: memoirs by religious personalities have performed better than most of their secular counterparts.
January 12, 1998... WHILE SOME GENERAL-TRADE publishers are becoming less enamored of celebrity books--which are no longer viewed as surefire hits because of the draw of a big name--"celebrity fatigue" doesn't seem to have set in yet in religion, and...

Nota bene. (information about 'Love Adds a Little Chocolate: 100 Stories to Brighten Your Day and Sweeten Your Life' by Medard Laz; rights to a Chinese edition of 'Gandhi the Man' are granted; sales of 'Left Behind' and its subsequent titles in series)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... JUST ADD CHOCOLATE What happens when a parish priest decides to make a book out of the inspirational stories he's been using for years in his homilies and speeches, stories listeners have repeatedly requested copies of?. The sweet...

Religion bestsellers. (lists of the top 10 selling paperback and hardcover religion and evangelical Christian books)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
January 12, 1998... PAPERBACK 1 Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul. J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, Patty Aubery & Nancy Mitchell. Health Communications, $12.95 ISBN 1-55874-501-7 2 Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. J. Canfield, M. V. Hansen & K....

First-timers spring forth: an especially varied crop of debut novels awaits this season's readers. (includes related articles)
January 12, 1998... MARGARET CUTHBERT Silent Cradle Pocket Books (Apr.) It took Berkeley, Calif., ob/gyn Margaret Cuthbert 10 long, soul-searching months before she reluctantly decided to close her medical practice and become a full-time novelist....

The Sorcerer's Apprentice.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... Ted Dewan. Doubleday, $15.95 ISBN 0-385-32537 1 Dewan (Top Secret) uses the tale of a misguided hex to warn modern sorcerers about their own technology. Inside a dilapidated building in an industrial wasteland, an inventor known as...

Vacationers from Outer Space.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... Edward Valfre. Chronicle, $15.95 (48p) ISBN 0-8118-1717-2 Photographer Valfre, who chronicled a cross-country drive in Backseat Buckaroo, takes his camera on another family road trip. Humans aren't alone on the highway, however; a...

What's Up with You, Taquandra Fu?(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... Matt Cibula, illus. by Brian Strassburg. Zino, $16.95 ISBN 1-55933-212-3 The glow-in-the-dark cover is the best feature of this uneven picture book, in which the creators of The Contrary Kid introduces Taquandra Fu, "the weirdest...

Together in Pinecone Patch.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... Thomas E Yezerski. FSG, $16 (32p) ISBN 0-374-37647-6 Intricate lines and subdued tones give Yezerski's (Spy in the Sky) emotion-charged art the look of period etchings in this quietly inspiring tale of two immigrants' journeys to...

Just Right Stew.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... Karen English, illus. by Anna Rich. Boyds Mills, $14.95 ISBN 1-56397-487-8 Authentic and lively dialogue, flamed by a perceptive girl's flowing first-person narrative, move English's (Big Wind Coming) savory story along at a snappy...

A Bad Case of Stripes.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... David Shannon. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 0-590-92997-6 On this disturbing book's striking dust jacket, a miserable Betty-Boop-like girl, completely covered with bright bands of color, lies in bed with a thermometer...

All Around Town: The Photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... The Photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts Dinah Johnson. Holt, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 0-8050-5456-1 Johnson's inaugural children's book offers a rare view of life for African Americans living in Columbia, S.C., during the 1920s and '30s,...

Regarding the Fountain.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... Kate Klise, illus. by M. Sarah Klise. Avon, $14 (144p) ISBN 0-380-97538-6 What Dry Creek Middle School needs is a plain, functional drinking fountain to replace its leaking old one. What it gets is Florence Waters, impresario...

Double Act.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... Jacqueline Wilson, illus. by Nick Sharratt and Sue Heap. Delacorte, $14.95 ISBN 0-385-32312-3 An unexceptional mix of familiar plot devices, this British import is almost gratingly obvious. Ten-year-old twins Ruby and Garnet take...

Songs of Faith.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... Angela Johnson. Orchard, $15.95 (112p) ISBN 0-531-30023-4 In Johnson's (Humming Whispers) absorbing character study, the country prepares the bicentennial celebration of Independence Day while 13-year-old Doreen and her younger...

Camouflage.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... Gloria D. Miklowitz. Harcourt, $16 (176p) ISBN 0-15-201467-5 In this overdrawn yet thrilling high drama, 14-year-old Kyle is fed up with his overprotective mother and her "cop" boyfriend and is eager to take off to Michigan to spend...

Paperback bestsellers.
January 12, 1998... Last Weeks MASS MARKET Week on list 1 M Is for Malice. Sue Oration 2 4 Fawcett Crest, $7.99 ISBN...

Hardcover bestsellers.(Brief Article)
January 12, 1998... F I C T I O N Last Weeks Week on List 1 Cold Mountain. Charles Frazier. 1 28 Atlantic Monthly, $24 ISBN...

Crown plans $25M 'returns initiative' for new year.(Crown Books)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... Initiative is part of plan to improve inventory turns and liquidity UNCONFIRMED REPORTS that Crown Books was planning to return a substantial number of books early in the new year (News, Dec. 22) were verified in the troubled...

Gaylord Cos. files for Chapter 11.(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... GAYLORD COS., a franchisee that owns six Little Professor bookstores and six Cookstores in the Ohio area filed, for Chapter 11 protection in November in an Ohio court. Gaylord, which lost $1.1 million in the first half of 1997 and...

B&N.com, AOL expand their link.(online booksellers)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... IN THE LATEST in a series of pacts between online booksellers and Internet service providers, BarnesandNoble.com and America Online agreed last month to a four-year, $40-million accord that makes Barnes & Noble.corn the exclusive...

WIPO: publishers, librarians face-off over copyright bill.(World Intellectual Property Organization)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... INTERNATIONAL copyright law will dominate the early months of 1998 as publishers and other copyright owners once again square off against library and education groups over the legislation needed to implement the treaties negotiated...

News Corp. reaffirms commitment to HC. (HarperCollins)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... AT LAST MONTH'S PaineWebber conference, Bill Sorenson, senior v-p for finance at News Corp., reiterated that the company has no current plans to sell HarperCollins. Sorenson conceded that News had looked at selling the book...

Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos: brand first, profits come later.(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... DISMISSING CONCERNS over Amazon.com's profitability, Jeff Bezos, the online bookseller's founder and CEO, told PW that the company's growth was "beyond any realistic expectation," and at this point he is more concerned with branding...

Richards to lead Holt sales, marktg.(Maggie Richards)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... RUTH HOOK, v-p and director of sales for Henry Holt, resigned from the company late last month, and Maggie Richards, who had been In charge of marketing, was named to replace her. Hook, who had been with Holt since 1988 and director...

Durkin Hayes reorganization moves forward.(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... DURKIN HAYES Publishing continues to reorganize its operations. Late last year, Paul Myles resigned as company chairman, a position he held for 18 months. Myles's resignation followed extensive restructuring in DH's third quarter...

TV Books completes new deals.(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... TV BOOKS AND Broadway Video have completed a transaction that gives Broadway a majority interest in the publishing company. Founded in 1995 by Peter Kaufman, TV Books develops titles linked to television programming. With the...

Fine Print folds.(Fine Print Distributors)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... DESPITE EFFORTS to reorganize after declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy last March (News, April 7, 1997), Fine Print Distributors has converted to a Chapter 7 liquidation and is reported to have ceased operations. The Austin-based...

Running faster than ever after 25 years.(Running Press)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... RUNNING PRESS has the unusual distinction of being the only trade publisher in Philadelphia. It is also, at 25 years old, a considerable success story, with annual sales at around the $50-million mark, and a targeted annual growth...

Silverman retires from Penguin.(Al Silverman)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... AL SILVERMAN retired as editor-at-large of Penguin USA on December 31. He joined Penguin in 1989, originally as an editor-at-large; he subsequently served three years as publisher and editor-in-chief of Viking, before resuming his...

Behind the bestsellers.(Brief Article)(Column)
January 5, 1998... NONFICTION WINS THE HOLIDAY RACE On the weekend before Christmas when the sale of books--like most other consumer goods--heats up, the area that was reaping the strongest sales activity, was nonfiction. Hardcover nonfiction titles...

No theft act signed into law.(No Electronic Theft Act copyright infringement)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON has signed into law the "No Electronic Theft" Act, a bill that punishes "willful" copyright infringement, even if the violator does not profit in any way from the infringement. The bill was supported by the...

Obituary.(publisher Charles E. Smith)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 5, 1998... CHARLES E. SMITH, longtime publisher of reference books and specialized encyclopedias, died of cancer on Dec. 7 in Colt's Neck, N.J. He was 60. Smith most recently was president and publisher of Charles E. Smith Books, a packager of...

Long-term planners. (posthumous screenplay from author Dennis Potter)(Rights)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... LONG-TERM PLANNERS Good news for all who mourned the passing of Dennis Potter. The creator of such innovative television series as Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective left a screenplay soon to go before the cameras....

Fast life. (Rights)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... FAST LIFE Dan Gooch's first novel, Solomon Grundy, was published last year by Abacus, the literary imprint of Little, Brown/U.K. Like the rhyme, it is about a child born with "accelerated growth syndrome" lives his life in seven...

Small press lift-off. (Rights)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... SMALL PRESS LIFT-OFF Published last fall by Longstreet Press in Marietta, Ga., Down on Ponce by Fred Willard attracted some Atlanta-area attention. Within a month of its appearance Willard referred an inquiry regarding motion...

Set for summer. (Rights)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... SET FOR SUMMER Reader's Digest already has the requisite four novels lined up for its Select Editions (formerly Condensed Books) volume going to subscribers next July. On tap are The Street Lawyer by John Grisham (Doubleday),...

Fry: a new chapter. (Rights)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... FRY: A NEW CHAPTER When Rights mentioned the late Varian Fry last June 30, his Surrender on Demand, out of print in the U.S. for half a century, had been acquired for trade paperback by Johnson Books in Boulder, Colo., and Barbra...

Melnick's new plate. (Rights)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... MELNICK'S FULL PLATE This producer should have a busy year ahead. He has also optioned Modoc. HarperCollins knew it had a pachyderm with legs when Ralph Helfer's biography of the famous circus elephant racked up more than $300,000...

Starting early. (Rights)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... STARTING EARLY Sixteen-year-old Rachel S. Miller has optioned the film rights to Peter Nelson's YA novel Deadly Games (S&S). The book's 17-year-old heroine wins a mysterious trip to Oxford University, where she finds herself at the...

PNBA to Macmillan: 'Kiss our ash.' (the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Assoc protested Macmillan's policy of cutting off accounts of less than $10,000 by giving it the Mount St. Helens Kiss Our Ash Award)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... Publishers reap benefits from doing direct business with indies, board says THE LATEST OFFICIAL protest against Macmillan's new policy of cutting off accounts with which it does less than $10,000 net a year in business is the most...

Beer-book ferment: Brewers Publications joins NBN. (the beer publishing firm chose the National Book Network as its new distributor)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... BREWERS PUBLICATIONS, a beneficiary of the growing thirst for information about the brewing trade, aims to tap this market better: the publisher of books like Beer for Pete's Sake: Adventures of a Brewing Maverick, has signed on to...

Borders invests in Salon Web site. (the Japanese firm ASCII also invested in Salon Internet Inc., which features Salon magazine)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... BORDERS HAS MADE an unspecified investment in Salon Internet Inc., which features Salon magazine (www.salonmagazine.com), one of the Web's best-known "publications," ASCII, the Japanese publishing company, has also invested in Salon....

Daybook. (publishing news about WordsWorth, Words Distributing Co., Politics & Prose Bookstore Coffeehouse, David Schwartz and Chapters)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... WORDSWORTH GOES TO THE MALL--AND OPENS ITS FOURTH STORE WordsWorth, which has three bookstores in Cambridge, Mass., has opened a children's bookstore in the Mall at Chestnut Hill in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The 3000-sq.-ft. store is,...

The 1997 Cuffies: children's booksellers choose their favorite (and not-so-favorite) books of the year.(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... Children's booksellers choose their favorite (and not-so-favorite) books of the year Favorite Picture Book (tie) The Gardener by Sarah Stewart, illus. by David Small My Life with the Wave by Octavio Paz, illus. by Mark Buehner...

Live! From Simon & Schuster. (the publisher's children's book division produced four interactive author/illustrator presentations)(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... THOUGH THE WEEK before Thanksgiving is typically filled with thoughts of family and food, this year it was also a time to celebrate National Children's Book Week. S&S's children's division kicked off the festivities in grand style by...

Children's bookbag. (web sites devoted to children's books)(Brief Article)(Column)
January 5, 1998... RANDOM HOUSE LAUNCHES KIDS@RANDOM Random House Children's Publishing now has a Web site completely dedicated to young readers (www.kidsatrandom.com). Offering author information, book reviews by kids, games, contests and links to...

Listen up awards. (best audio recordings of 1997)
January 5, 1998... LISTED BELOW ARE the top audiotapes of 1997, as selected by PW'S audio editors. Tapes have been cited for content, narration, production values, packaging and their ability to draw wider public attention to the audio medium. The...

Bringing Out the Dead.
January 5, 1998... Joe Connelly. Read by Campbell Scott. Random. Two cassettes, 3 hrs., $18 ISBN 0-375-40222-5 Frank Pierce is an EMS medic, working crazed overnight ambulance shifts in New York City's rough Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. (First...

Cat and Mouse.
January 5, 1998... James Patterson. Read by Anthony Heald and David Keith. Time Warner. Four cassettes, 6 hrs., $24 ISBN 1-57042-577-9 Patterson proves himself a master technician within his own specialty niche--a particularly dark brand of...

The Collected Stories.
January 5, 1998... Paul Theroux. Read by Susan Anspach, David Birne), William Windom. Dove. Four cassettes, 6 hrs., $25 ISBN 0-7871-1691-2 Over the past year, a number of Theroux's books have been issued on audio, including his recent novel Kowloon...

Millennium: Gehenna
January 5, 1998... Gehenna Lewis Gannett. Read by Bill Smitrovich. Harper. Two cassettes, 3 hrs., $18 ISBN 0-694-51872-7 Based on a teleplay by Chris Carter, creator of TV's The X-Files, this novelization by Gannett offers an extended trip with...

Guilty as Charged: Volume II.
January 5, 1998... Volume II Edited by Scott Turow. Read by Tony Roberts and Judy Kaye. Dutkin Hayes. Two cassettes, 3 hrs., $16.99 ISBN 0-88646-435-8 The short-format classic detective story has long been a staple of audio publishing, often presented...

The Irish in America.
January 5, 1998... Edited by Michael Coffey. Read by Colm Meaney and others. Simon & Schuster. Four cassettes, 4.5 hrs., $25 ISBN 0-671-58035-3 The social history of the Irish in America is told through a series of individual essays, as deftly...

The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible.
January 5, 1998... Forbidden Tales of the Bible Jonathan Kirsch. Read by Candace Barrett and Raye Birk. Audio Literature. Two cassettes, 3 hrs., $17.95 ISBN 1-57453-211-1 Collected here are biblical stories from the original Hebrew texts, which...

Die Broke.
January 5, 1998... Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine. Read by Pollan. Harper. Two cassettes, 3 hrs., $18 ISBN 0-694-51926-X Pollan is a hard-nosed Manhattan financial adviser. His clients are from the new professional generation of "achievers,"...

Audio bestsellers. (the top fiction audiobook for the first week in Jan 1998, is 'Cold Mountain;' the top nonfiction title is 'Angela's Ashes')(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... FICTION Cold Mountain. Charles Frazier. Read by Dylan Baker. Random House Audiobooks. Two cassettes, three hours, $18 ISBN 0-679-46069-1 The Ghost. Danielle Steel. Read by Joe Grifasi. BDD Audio. Four cassettes, six hours,...

Publishing's bold apprentices. (young executives and editors)
January 5, 1998... They don't do back-to-back power lunches at Michael's, but prefer to meet clients over the boxed lunch at Japonica or at other restaurants off the beaten path. They have little patience for the slow proceedings of the editorial board...

Scanning the globe for growth: U.S. publishers have markedly increased their international units and, despite problems in Asia, see more opportunities.
January 5, 1998... American publishers have been notably expanding their international operations lately, and despite current problems in Asia, they see more opportunities ahead, particularly in professional and educational publishing areas. "The...

The big got bigger and better. (publishing industry's best seller lists)
January 5, 1998... In a year that saw greater consolidation of major players, literary merit often led the way on the bestseller charts Consolidation, concentration and keen competition continue to define the bestseller picture in the '90s. Look at it...

Brian Moore: travels of a literary infidel. (author)
January 5, 1998... WHEREVER there's revolutionary fire and brimstone, spiritual upheaval and poverty, Brian Moore is sure to go. In his 20 novels from The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne to Black Robe and No Other Life, he's transported readers to such...

Leaving Deep Water: The Lives of Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures.(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... The Lives of Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures Claire S. Chow. Dutton, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-525-94075-8 During her younger years, Chow, a first-generation Chinese American born and raised in California, was...

The Bend for Home: A Portrait.(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... Dermot Healy. Harcourt Brace, $24 (320p) ISBN 0-15-100304-1 Novelist and poet Healy has produced not a memoir, as claimed, but an episodic novel in the form of a memoir. Writers, he contends, "not only make up things, but get things...

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table.(Brief Article)
January 5, 1998... Growing Up at the Table Ruth Reichl. Random, $23 (288p) ISBN 0-679-44987-6 Reichl discovered early on that since she wasn't "pretty or funny or sexy" she could attract friends with food instead. But that initiative isn't likely to...