Random House

Random House’s New Digital Imprints

by Sabrina EBooks

I got a good laugh today when I read Publisher Weekly‘s “Random House Launches New Digital-Only Imprints.” Why, you might ask? Well, because a group of friends and I had the exact same idea in 2011. 

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BEA Day 1

by Sabrina Publishing
BEA

First day of my first BEA, BookExpo America. Fortunately, because of this publishing blog, I was able to attend for free! I spent about five hours today at the Expo, and I still wasn’t able to cover everything. It can be a little overwhelming, as some attendees may agree, but totally worth it. This year, [...]

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Last Days at Random House

by Sabrina Publishing
Random House internship

I don’t know if I’ve said this before on my blog, but my internship at Random House was the best internship I’ve had, ever. And I’ve done six. My last week there was a mixture of sad and exciting. Last week was Children’s Publishing Celebration Week, and on Monday and Tuesday I was able to [...]

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The Effects of Digital Publishing

by Sabrina Publishing

I’ve been saying for a while that ebooks should take advantage of being digital and able to be produced quickly, so it’s exciting to see that publishers are finally embracing that (not that I claim they are listening to me!). Tomorrow morning, Random House will be releasing an ebook about Osama bin Laden, now that [...]

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Inside the Book World

by Sabrina Publishing

Every once in a while I like to update my 2 readers on all the interesting stuff I’m learning about the book world. First off, I finally figured out why the book industry has the most ridiculous/backwards business model where return on sales of books are expected and planned for. It all started in the [...]

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This Week in Publishing

by Sabrina Publishing

Random House finally decided to adopt the agency model. It’s the last of the big six houses to switch from the wholesale model, but now that it uses the agency model all 17,000 Random House ebooks will be directly available through the iBookstore—which is good since the iPad2 made its debut on March 2. The [...]

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Random House Day 1

by Sabrina Publishing
Random House

Today was my first day at Wendy Lamb books in Random House–and I’ve never been so excited to work for free before. Day one as an editorial intern and already I want to actually work at Random House. I can’t help it, I’m in love. Everyone was incredibly friendly and my boss greeted me with [...]

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My Last Day at LIFE

by Sabrina Publishing

Yes, sadly friends, I no longer work at LIFE anymore. But on the bright side, I will be working at Random House next semester, as an editorial intern for Wendy Lamb books! Anyway, I just thought I’d share some highlights of my last day at LIFE. First, I finally got to write for LIFE! One [...]

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