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New Book in Poland Claims Walesa Was Communist Informer
A book released in Poland on Monday by historians Slawomir Cenckiewicz and Piotr Gontarczyk claims to offer evidence that political leader and Nobel laureate Lech Walesa was an informant for the country's secret service in the 70s. Co-author Gontarczyk said in an interview, "Life is complicated sometimes. He was a young deckhand then."
 
A German newspaper says Walesa "has denied the allegations and called the institute's authors 'fanatics' with libellous claims. He has threatened legal action and said he will soon release his own book to tell his side of the story." The paper notes that "during his presidency in 2000, Walesa won a court ruling that said he was not a spy. But opponents, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, say they know he had worked for communists.
Deutsche Welle

Chronicling the Losses at PFD
A financial statement from former PFD parent company CSS Stellar indicates that the company took a 6 million pound writedown on the value of the literary agency following the departure of nearly all of the agents to form United Agents. The Bookseller reports that it also confirms that a lawsuit against former directors (now working at United Agents) seeks 853,000 pounds. True to form, the geniuses running the place made a provision in their 2007 results of over 500,000 pounds to cover anticipated legal costs.
 
PFD generated 9.5 million pounds in revenue in fiscal 2007, with operating profit of just 400,000 pounds.
Bookseller

Joint Venture to Provide Online Slices of Academic Books
The University of Chicago Press's Chicago Distribution Center has signed with  technology provider Tizra to allow distributed publishers to sell subscriptions to online books. The joint venture will begin this summer in a pilot program with the University of Chicago Press itself and others, and will use the services of their Bibliovault digital repository.

Personnel News
Rick Wolff has been promoted to publisher and editor in chief of Hachette Book Group USA's Business Plus, while continuing to serve as executive editor at Grand Central Publishing.
 
At Penguin Children's, Felicia Frazier has been hired as svp, director of sales. Most recently she was vp, sales director for the national accounts, brand & category management team at Random House Children's.
 
At Princeton University Press, Anne Savarese has been promoted to executive editor, and Rob Tempio and Hanne Winarsky both are moving up to senior editor."
 
At McGraw-Hill, Kenya Henderson has been promoted to senior publicist, Nicole LeBlanc has been promoted to senior marketing manager, and Heather Cooper has been promoted to associate marketing manager.
 

More New Jobs
In another big day, we added 11 more new jobs to our industry-leading Job Board yesterday, the latest among about 110 listings in all still live from the past month.
 
For employers, we provide the unbeatable combination of the largest circulation in the business by far, a total focus on book publishing only, and the best prices anywhere.
 
And for job-seekers, we present great new possibilities every day and conveniences like an RSS ping to keep you posted on every new offering. Among the latest:
 
Business/Financial Analyst  [Full Time]
Random House (New York, NY)
 
Web Customer Support Specialist  [Full Time]
Springer Science + Business Media (Secaucus, NJ)
 
Online Media Manager - Crown  [Full Time]
Random House (New York, NY)
 
Junior Designer  [Full Time]
St. Martin's Press (New York, NY)
 
Online Marketing Manager  [Full Time]
HarperCollins Publishers (New York, NY)
 
Proofreader/Writer  [Through November 4, 2008]
Mission Control (Mansfield, CT)
 
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