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...National Book Foundation: to bring unheralded literature to national recognition, and to promote literacy in underserved communities throughout the United States. The award's impact, however, seems to be felt most within the publishing world itself. Foundation board members, in fact, come largely from prominent publishing companies including Penguin, Perseus Books, W.W. Norton & Co. and Simon and Schuster, with a few members drawn from related fields...
...Skipper, the penguin-in-chief (co-director McGrath), manages to overcome his complete cluelessness as a pilot by safely landing a plane carrying our heroes on the African savannah - "Who said penguins couldn't fly?" - all the while issuing commands to his brain-challenged underlings, one of whom gets a quick laugh trying to spit and ending up with a string of drool on his bib. Julien the lemur (Sacha Baron Cohen) is a frantic pantaloon who waves the stars on the plane back into Economy: "This is First Class. It's nothing personal. It's just that...
...Penguin Group USA seems to be leading the financial field when it comes to big bucks and celebrity authors. Within a span of 48 hours, Penguin imprints scooped up three of the hottest gets, shelling out millions in advances. Andrew Ross Sorkin will write a behind-the-scenes account of the Wall Street crisis, Too Big to Fail, for Viking, while his New York Times colleague Joe Nocera, along with Vanity Fair contributing editor Bethany McLean, will do a long-term take on the crisis for Portfolio, with their advance rumored to be as much as $1.6 million. Roger Lowenstein...
...covering a breaking crisis isn't easy, especially for book publishers, as editors call for rewrites or dramatic changes in the publishing lag time. "There seems to be two approaches: do it quickly or wait and take the longer-term view," says Will Weisser, associate publisher of Portfolio, a Penguin imprint, who says most of their business authors are being asked to expedite books already under way. One is Eric Janszen, whose The Post Catastrophe Economy, a historical account of the economy and where it is headed, was supposed to be published in August 2009. With the crisis deepening, Portfolio...
Likewise, Vicki Robin, author of the 1992 New York Times best seller Your Money or Your Life, which preaches a more fulfilling life through simplicity and frugality, had Penguin accelerate the publishing date for an updated version of the book from one year to three months. It will come out in December. "As the due date got closer, it became clearer to the publisher they wanted to get it out faster," says Robin, who was working on the rewrite when the Fannie Mae bailout hit. As for Robins' muse: "I'm slightly mystical and believe the universe asked...