Publisher Interivew

May 30, 2009

BookExpo America

Peter Miller, Peter Ginna, and George Gibson talked about books coming out in fall 2009. They mentioned Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou (Bloomsbury USA, September 29, 2009); The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began by Joan DeJean (Bloomsbury .. Read More
Peter Miller, Peter Ginna, and George Gibson talked about books coming out in fall 2009. They mentioned Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou (Bloomsbury USA, September 29, 2009); The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began by Joan DeJean (Bloomsbury USA, September 15, 2009); Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World by Douglas Hunter (Bloomsbury Press, September 1, 2009); An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson by Andro Linklater (Walker and Company, October 13, 2009); The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone (Walker and Company (October 27, 2009); and Meltdown Iceland: How the Global Financial Crisis Bankupted an Entire Country by Roger Boyes (Bloomsbury USA, September 29, 2009). They also talked about the history of the companies and of the publishing business. They were interviewed at BookExpo America 2009 in the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City, apparently on Saturday, May 30, 2009.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:08 Unidentified Speaker 2009 BOOKSELLER CONVENTION IN NEW YORK CITY WITH BLOOMSBURY AND WALKER BOOKS I AM HERE WITH PETER...
00:00:20 Unidentified Speaker THE MOST AMBITIOUS AND EXCITING IS THE ONE OVER MY SHOULDER WHICH IS A GRAPHIC NOVEL. WE DECIDED...
00:01:24 Unidentified Speaker uest: THE INTERESTING WORK OF NONFICTION IN THE FALL IS THIS BOOK CALLED THE AGE OF COMFORT. THE...
00:03:05 Unidentified Speaker ost: THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF IT BLOOMSBURY USA AND BLOOMSBURY ARE STILL BASED IN THE U.S. -- BRIDGE...
00:03:19 Unidentified Speaker THEY WERE GROWING SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE U.K. AND FELT THEY NEEDED AN AMERICAN PRESIDENTS. WE JUST ABOUT...
00:04:00 Unidentified Speaker ost: ALSO THE PUBLISHER FROM BLOOMSBURY OPPRESS WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BLOOMSBURY PRESS AND...
00:04:09 Unidentified Speaker THE PRESS IS DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO NONFICTION. HISTORY, POLITICS, BIOGRAPHY, CURRENT EVENTS IN ECONOMICS...
00:04:31 Unidentified Speaker AND THIS ONE CALLED HALF MOON THE HENRY HUDSON AND THE 400th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DISCOVERY OF THE RIVER...
00:05:26 Unidentified Speaker GEORGE GIBSON PUBLISHER OF WALKER BOOKS IT IS CELEBRATING ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY WHAT IS WALKER BOOKS...
00:05:34 Unidentified Speaker WALKER AND COMPANY IS A DIVISION OF BLOOMSBURY USA FOUNDED 1959 BY SANTA AND BETH WALKER A COMPLETELY...
00:05:55 Unidentified Speaker ost: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH WALKER?
00:05:59 Unidentified Speaker SINCE 1993. AS THE PUBLISHER THEN I BECAME THE PUBLISHING DIRECTOR WITH BLOOMSBURY USA LAST SEPTEMBER....
00:06:15 Unidentified Speaker ost: WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT?
00:06:19 Unidentified Speaker A COUPLE OF WALKER BOOKS, AN ARTIST AND TREASON. A BIG SUCCESS THIS STORY OF A GREATEST TRADER IN...
00:07:41 Unidentified Speaker ALSO COMING OUT THIS FALL?
00:07:43 Unidentified Speaker OF BOOK CALLED MELTDOWN ICELAND WHICH I THINK WILL BE A FASCINATING WAY INTO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS THAT...
00:08:16 Unidentified Speaker ost: YOU HAVE BEEN WITH WALKER SINCE 1993 HOW HAS THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY CHANGED SINCE THEN?
00:08:24 Unidentified Speaker IT HAS CHANGED IN ALMOST EVERY WAY AND YET IT HASN'T. IT SOUNDS CONTRADICTORY BUT THE MARKETPLACE...
00:09:24 Unidentified Speaker WITH THE WALKER'S RECOGNIZE THE PUBLISH THE COMPANY?
00:09:28 Unidentified Speaker SAN PASSED AWAY BUT BETH FOLLOWS THEM. I THINK HE WOULD HAVE HAD TROUBLE IN THIS WORLD. IT IS A VERY...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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