Hit Obama books turn city publisher into Jamie Bling
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
WITH his two-day-old stubble and wild hair, Jamie Byng may look like he has just stepped off a desert island.
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Hit Obama books turn city publisher into Jamie Bling
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
WITH his two-day-old stubble and wild hair, Jamie Byng may look like he has just stepped off a desert island.
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Yann Martel’s “shocking” new novel
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Yann Martel’s follow-up to Life of Pi, titled Beatrice and Virgil and due in June 2010, is already generating controversy in the U.K., where Martel’s publisher, Canongate, has described the novel, an allegory about the Holocaust, as “shocking.” From CBC News: According to Jamie Byng, managing director and publisher of Canongate, “it will take us somewhere...
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Barack’s brother speaks out
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... £7.35 million in just six months. The windfall has propelled the success of Canongate’s publisher, Jamie Byng, whom the Edinburgh-based newspaper describes as the “enfant terrible of British publishing.” The 40-year-old discovered the works of the then aspiring Democrat politician three years ago, before he rose to worldwide fame. Snapping up the U.K. and Commonwealth publishing rights...
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Pi author's next novel to deal with Holocaust
Sify (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
... and philosophical questions about the nature of love and evil."anongate Managing Director Jamie Byng said: "I was stunned by Beatrice and Virgil and all of us at Canongate are enormously excited about taking this book to as many readers as we can."Byng insisted Martel's new work would live up to readers' expectations after having written the Booker Prize-winning novel eight...
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Fail Harder, Talk at London Book Fair 2009
Times emit (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
... if you can’t see what’s on screen. Sorry about the horrific thumbnail photo. Also available is Jamie Byng’s talk, my old boss at Canongate, who was next up on stage. We didn’t know what the other was talking about so when I gave a slide about being his “gimp”, that was meant in the nicest possible way. Here’s his talk: For more details on the event, here’s a post I wrote at the time...
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Mandela and Google at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany is the world's largest, where much publishing business typically gets done. Now in its second day, the fair seems to be smaller than in recent years. With attendance of agents rumored to be down, there seems to be a bit less business being done; that is, unless you listen to dynamic British publisher Jamie Byng, who blogs about the excitement of telling...
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