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Maxim Gets Stuff-ed, And More
Yesterday, Alpha Media Group–the name for the investors backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners who bought Maxim, Blender and Stuff from Dennis Publishing yesterday for more than $240 million–announced...
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Knopf To Publish Blair’s Book (UPDATE)
Knopf has won the rights to publish Tony Blair’s memoirs, a Random House source said. The Blair book was the subject of an intense auction; D.C. lawyer and literary agent Robert Barnett represented Mr....
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Karl Rove in Town to Meet With Editors About Book Proposal
Karl Rove is in New York today shopping a book proposal to editors, according to two publishing sources, including one executive who is meeting with Mr. Rove during his visit. According to the sources,...
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Beltway Lawyer Loves Books, Big Advances
“I get these deals because of the client and the book, not because of me. I may facilitate putting the client with the right publishing house and the right editor, I may conduct a negotiation which...
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Source: Rove Wants to Meet With Publishers Again Before Making Decision About...
The reason Karl Rove’s memoirs do not have a publisher a full week after the auction ended last Wednesday is that Mr. Rove and his representative, DC lawyer Robert Barnett, want to meet with the...
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Threshold Will Publish Karl Rove’s Memoirs
After weeks of speculation, it’s finally official: Karl Rove’s memoirs will be published by Threshold Editions, the conservative-minded imprint of Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Books overseen by GOP...
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Barnett Sells Suzy Welch Book to Scribner
Suzy Welch, wife of former General Electric chairman Jack Welch, has sold world rights to a book about decision-making to Nan Graham at the Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner, it was announced...
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Publishing Giants Bob Barnett and Esther Newberg Trade Jabs in Financial Times
In this weekend’s Financial Times magazine, I.F. Stone biographer and Nation correspondent D.D. Guttenplan tries his hand at the perennial Bob Barnett profile. It’s a lovely piece, and though much of...
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Viking Books Continues Buying Streak With Seven-Figure Plouffe Deal
The auction for David Plouffe’s account of the 2008 campaign has ended, and the winner is Viking Books. According to the AP’s Hillel Italie, who first reported news of the deal this morning, the...
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David Gergen Writing Book on Presidential Transitions For Simon & Schuster
David Gergen is working on a book about the Obama administration, according to Alice Mayhew, his editor at Simon & Schuster. Ms. Mayhew declined to go into detail about Mr. Gergen’s project, but...
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Report: Fox News Pays Sarah Palin $1 million a year
Sarah Palin’s contract with Fox News, which was negotiated on her behalf by Washington power broker Robert Barnett and signed in January 2010, pays Ms. Palin $ 1 million a year for three years,...
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When Opportunity Knox! Amanda Knox Lands Robert Barnett as Lit Agent
Knox. Amanda Knox has signed with one of the biggest literary agents in the book business, Washington D.C.-based Robert Barnett, according to the Daily News. Mr. Barnett is not technically an agent at...
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