Michael Tamblyn is CEO of Kobo, the global ebook and e-reader platform owned by Rakuten and headquartered in Toronto. In this episode, Michael talks about his unusual journey to bookselling, how Kobo…
Sanyu Dillon is President of the Random House Publishing Group and the first publisher ever inducted into the American Marketing Association’s Marketing Hall of Fame. In this episode, she discusses…
Sam Schwartz is the legendary former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, credited with coining the word “gridlock” during the 1980 transit strike, earning him the moniker “Gridlock Sam.” In this…
Greg Greeley was named CEO of Simon & Schuster a little more than 100 days ago, with a career that spans aerospace engineering, Sun Microsystems, and nearly two decades at Amazon — where he held…
Terry Finley is the President and CEO of Books-A-Million, a chain of over 200 bookstores in 30 states. In this episode he describes the dramatic changes in book retailing since the late 1970s, when…
Hi, I’m David Steinberger, and I’m inviting you to listen to the Open Book podcast, where we explore the stories behind the bestsellers, and also the many different ways our guests were first drawn to…
A longtime publishing industry leader, John Sargent is known for his frank straight-talking style, even when engaged in a highly public confrontation with the world’s largest retailer, or a formidable…
As the first woman and the first Black person to serve as Executive Director of the National Book Foundation (presenter of the National Book Awards) and later as Publisher of Pantheon and Schocken,…
From editing Kurt Vonnegut to making Black Hawk Down a #1 Bestseller to taking a chance on The Sympathizer, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and is now an HBO series, the adventures of one of…
Gayle Feldman is a journalist who has covered the book publishing industry for decades for Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller, among many other publications. Her new book is Nothing Random: Bennett…
