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Harold Evans

October 5th, 2009 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

And another aside from the business of our own books. Harold Evans is in town. He is doing the rounds promoting his latest book: My Paper Chase. He left the Sunday Times and the world of newspapers at News International to go into publishing at Random House. Shortly after joining RH myself I had the pleasure during my brief foray in New York to play table tennis with him at a number of sales conferences. He was a considerable hand at ping pong – too wiley for me. Shortly thereafter, I left RH to come back to the UK to join News International to work with the Sunday Times, Times, and their tabloid stablemates as well as Sky and HarperCollins. At 81 he still has a lot to say about the future of print and journalism in particular. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/05/harold-evans-interviewed-alan-rusbridger

It’s not all about promoting our own books.

October 1st, 2009 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

I had the great pleasure of working with Galen Rowell, one of the world’s foremost outdoor photographers, who tragically died in a plane crash in the Eastern Sierras of California seven years ago. He provided the photography for Coastal California published by Compass American Guides, now an imprint of Fodor’s. Random House in their wisdom now distribute Galen’s wonderful California the Beautiful which has been reissued by Welcome Books http://welcomebooks.com/californiathebeautiful/ which Galen shot for Peter Beren, then publisher of Sierra Club Books http://peterberen.blogspot.com/. The sierra Club is a wonderful organisation founded by John Muir in 1892 and does great work protecting the environment throughout the US and Canada http://www.sierraclub.org.

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