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And The Things We'll Never See in 2005 But Would be Funny If We Did

By Steven Zeitchik, PW NewsLine -- Publishers Weekly, 12/30/2004

A Merger of Random House and Barnes & Noble: One's publishing and selling, the other's selling and publishing. Why not just combine? The name could get sticky, though. Noble House sounds too much like a vanity press.


The Industry's Biggest Seller Is Not a Diet Book From Two Years Ago: It's not that we don't like South Beach and all the others, it's that we wonder if an entire industry should be predicated on the elaboration of the theme of not eating bread.


Reality-Publishing TV: We know GMA has that Story of My Life project, but what about upping the stakes? Big Brother set at the Regnery offices. The Apprentice for young Bertelsmann executives. A HarperCollins-themed Fear Factor--that is, a year without Purpose Driven Life.


Judith Regan Does Not Do a Book That Pertains to This Week's Scandal of the Century.


Judith Regan Does Not Do An Instant book


Fewer Judith Regan Jokes

This article originally appeared in the December 29, 2004 issue of PW NewsLine. For more information about PW NewsLine, including a sample and subscription information, click here »

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