21.Aug.2009 | Sara Nelson
Welcome to the neighborhood, Jane Friedman
Rumors have been flying for months — actually since the much admired Jane Friedman left HarperCollins over a year ago — that she would, indeed, be back. Today, Paid Content reveals that she is indeed back, with a new publishing venture that has raised at least $3milion. The specifics are characteristically vague but you can bet it’s not because Jane doesn’t know what she’s going to do, but because she wants to control the flow of information. . . As someone who followed/covered her as a journalist for a number of years, that ability to handle the press was both my favorite and my least favorite thing about Jane. About her as a publisher, I had no mixed feelings: she knows what she’s doing, as all who loved and remember such authors as Michael Crichton can attest.
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