Which Jerk Editor Made Sara Nelson Cry?
Sara Nelson, who was recently laid off as the editor of Publishers Weekly, so she's freelancing. But one mystery publication's asshole editor gave her so much trouble she outed him, blind item-style. Guess:
Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
Sara Nelson recently got laid off as the editor of Publishers Weekly, so she's blogging about her "Reinvention." So far she's decided she does not want to be reinvented as Graydon Carter.
Sara Nelson Out, Sharon Waxman In
In your sobering Monday media column: Publishers Weekly editor laid off, scrounging for dollars and cougars, former New York Times Hollywood reporter Sharon Waxman's web site cometh, and more!
Sara Nelson
Nelson was the editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly, the trade magazine read by everyone in the book publishing business, until January 2009, when she was laid off during a restructuring by PW's parent company, Reed Business Information.
Publishing industry secrets
The Observer's Sara Nelson on why the publishing industry keeps advance amounts and sales figures under wraps: "Nobody talks about publishing numbers because they are so unbelievably low...When told, for example, that last year s hit novel, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, sold about 100,000 copies in…
