Anthony Bourdain, the celebrity chef, author and reality TV star, will acquire books for Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, the publisher said on Monday.
Many of those writers will be fair game as Mr. Rosenthal begins to acquire books for his own imprint, setting up competition between Penguin and Simon & Schuster.
Unlike many contemporary "editors" who acquire books for others to edit, Mr. Gottlieb personally edited about 30 of Knopf's books a year, line by line.
Mr. Rubin, 67, will report directly to Markus Dohle, Random House's chief executive, and will acquire books across the company's divisions, which include the Knopf Publishing Group and the Crown Publishing Group.
Cogswell was able to acquire books cheaply during the unrest in Europe of the late 1840's, and the first building -- the southern third of what is now the Public Theater -- opened in 1854 with more than 80,000 volumes.
Those who have grown up in the Internet era probably have no idea how hard it once was to acquire books, even when they were in print.
The personnel here are committed readers who mentioned how e-readers had made it easier for them to acquire books.
Our imprint, Pubslush Press, operates like a traditional publisher to acquire books, but in every other way is quite nontraditional.
Finally, if authors wish to be published by Pubslush's philanthropic publishing imprint, we only acquire books that are on Pubslush first.
No other substantial projects occupied her during this time and research materials were easily accessible; she even subscribed to a specialist circulating library to acquire books.
Develop a time line to acquire books.
