Pocket's restructring and new editors.

[Man of Steel]

Simon and Schusters restructring and new editors.

And they are?

Read below to find out.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6699421.html

 

[JD]

Hmm, so I wonder how this will effect any Trek TPBs? Will they just be under the Gallery name, or will they be phased out completely to keep it all under Pocket's name?

 

[Thrawn]

It also doesn't say who the Trek editors specifically are, and I'm getting pretty curious. Contracts are being signed, clearly someone is doing the work...

 

[DarkHorizon]

Well, this bit

The other imprints in Pocket--Downtown Press, Karen Hunter Publishing, MTV Books, Star Trek, Threshold Edition, and WWE-- are unaffected by the move and will continued to be overseen by Burke and Ziccardi. Burke will also directly oversee Pocket's mass market operations.

suggests this won't actually affect Trek in any way - I assume that means they'll all come out under the Pocket name - hardbacks, trades and MMPBs alike.

 

[Man of Steel]

Well, this bit

The other imprints in Pocket--Downtown Press, Karen Hunter Publishing, MTV Books, Star Trek, Threshold Edition, and WWE-- are unaffected by the move and will continued to be overseen by Burke and Ziccardi. Burke will also directly oversee Pocket's mass market operations.

suggests this won't actually affect Trek in any way - I assume that means they'll all come out under the Pocket name - hardbacks, trades and MMPBs alike.

It won't. Thankfully, this will remain untouched for the foreseeable future.

Besides, nothing takes effect till next spring anyway.

Just be gald you weren't involved in these meetings (probably seemed like a headache)

 

[C.E. Evans]

Well, this bit

The other imprints in Pocket--Downtown Press, Karen Hunter Publishing, MTV Books, Star Trek, Threshold Edition, and WWE-- are unaffected by the move and will continued to be overseen by Burke and Ziccardi. Burke will also directly oversee Pocket's mass market operations.

suggests this won't actually affect Trek in any way - I assume that means they'll all come out under the Pocket name - hardbacks, trades and MMPBs alike.

I don't know about hardbacks and trades though. The article said that such things would be published through the new Gallery imprint and that Pocket would simply do MMPBs...

All hardcovers and trade paperbacks that had been published under the Pocket and SSE imprints will now be published under the Gallery name, likely beginning in spring 2010. The SSE name will be phased out and Pocket Books will return to its roots as strictly a publisher of mass market paperbacks, for both reprints and originals.

Pocket to stick to releasing pocket-sized books?

 

[Christopher]

It wouldn't be unprecedented for Trek fiction to be published under two different imprints -- recall how the young-adult Trek books were published under the Minstrel Books YA imprint, and how some of the early nonfiction and technical TPBs were published by the Wallaby Books imprint. Although those were both listed in the indicia as subsets of Pocket Books.

There are also the Trek audiobooks published by Simon & Schuster Audio. I think maybe the eBooks were published by something other than Pocket as well.

I'm wondering if this rearrangement has been a factor in why we haven't heard any news about Trek editors, despite it apparently having no impact on the Trek MMPB line. Maybe those lower-level decisions were on hold until the bigger stuff got sorted out.

 

[William Leisner]

I'm wondering if this rearrangement has been a factor in why we haven't heard any news about Trek editors, despite it apparently having no impact on the Trek MMPB line. Maybe those lower-level decisions were on hold until the bigger stuff got sorted out.

No doubt. I'm sure they needed to see where the bigger pieces fell before making any decisions further down the corporate ladder.

 

[Christopher]

Hopefully that means we'll be getting some answers soon.

 

[Reanok]

I wonder what this news will mean for publishing StarTrek books in the future being split into Gallery books with the Hardcovers andtrade paperbacks and who the Startrek book editors will be.

 

[Man of Steel]

I think what this article is saying is that Star Trek goes to Gallery starting in the spring while everything else related to Trek will publish under the Simon and Schuster imprint.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The same people resonible for Star Trek are responible for WWE tie-ins?

Oh dear.

Although on the plus side, we're one step closer to that Gorn Vs. Undertaker showdown!

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ Well, the same people have been responsible for them all along. It's nothing new. In addition to Trek, the same editors oversee tie-ins for movies, the different flavors of CSI, Blizzard Games, WWE, Ghost Whisperer, and so on, in addition to various original fiction projects.

 

[S. Gomez]

Just out of curiosity (well, maybe not just...), why would there be all these different sub-companies dealing with different material? Why does it have to be a different logo and name on the publisher's hardcover books than on their paperbacks? Is it all to do with how the labour is organized?

 

[Christopher]

It's partly for marketing purposes, I think -- different imprint names represent different categories of material, and that gives readers and dealers an idea of what to expect from each label.

But yeah, it sounds like this reorganization may be about streamlining the company -- instead of having enough people at Pocket to handle both MMPB and trade/hardcover books plus additional people at Simon Spotlight Entertainment to handle the pop-culture-themed TPB/HC stuff they do, you combine the TPB/HC stuff under a single group of people so you can do it all with a smaller staff. Or something like that.

 

[William Leisner]

If it is a marketing thing, it seems to me that it's got to be a very, very narrow market. Sure, it makes some sense for publishers to have their SF imprint and their mystery imprint and their high-end literature imprints (and to have a group of editors and staff who are focused on specific types of books), but I think that it's more for the benefit of sales reps presenting to retailers. The average reader at B&N or Airport Books isn't going to care if the book with the cool-looking cover is from Pocket or Gallery or Scribner's or whatever.

But then, when you get down to such a nebulous category as this Gallery Books seems to encompass, I don't quite see what the point is, from outside the internal working of S&S.

 

[Defcon]

The same people resonible for Star Trek are responible for WWE tie-ins?

Oh dear.

Well, Rudy Josephs, the author of one of the two (I think) original WWE fiction titles has written for Star Trek afterwards, so the secret invasion of Star Trek by WWE continues.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Well, look on the bright side: Trek is way more realistic than WWE.

 

[Fer]

I'm so glad to see this being discussed here. Even since we lost both Margaret Clark and Marco Palmieri I've been concerned about the future of the Trek book line, and I haven't seen any news over at Psi-Phi. (Nothing against Psi-Phi. It's just gotten very quiet there.)

At least now I have some idea of what's going on! Thanks!

 

[BrotherBenny]

But still nothing on who said editor(s) will be.