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Summer Publishing Institute: The Book Session Begins

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Michael Pietsch, Chief Executive Officer of Hachette Book Group
Michael Pietsch, Chief Executive Officer of Hachette Book Group USA

The next chapter in the NYU Summer Publishing Institute program—the book session—opened with a keynote address from Michael Pietsch, Chief Executive Officer of Hachette Book Group USA. With over 35 years in the industry, Pietsch progressed from what he called a “supple-elbowed” intern needed to operate the newly-acquired Xerox machine at David R. Godine to editor to publisher to a CEO who, remarkably, still sets aside time to edit books by James Patterson, Stacy Schiff, and Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, The Goldfinch. [Read more…] about Summer Publishing Institute: The Book Session Begins

Abu Dhabi Diary, Part I

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Philip Patrick lecturing in Abu Dhabi

“It’s profoundly important to be willing to fail. What’s important is trying new things,” said Philip Patrick, a publisher at Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, as students from 14 nations listened raptly. Most were thousands of miles from home, seated at student desks at the brand new campus of New York University Abu Dhabi, participating in the inaugural executive publishing training sessions for publishers from the Arab world (and beyond). [Read more…] about Abu Dhabi Diary, Part I