ReganBooks
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ReganBooks is a controversial American bestselling imprint or division of HarperCollins book publishing house (parent company is News Corp), headed by editor and publisher Judith Regan, who has been called "the world's most successful publisher".[1] It reportedly earns $120 million a year.[2]
Regarding the control over Regan, according to The Daily Telegraph in London, she is "the enfant terrible of American publishing", with some critics calling her the "angriest woman in the media".[3] Vanity Fair magazine called her a "foul-mouthed tyrant".
ReganBooks focuses on celebrity authors and controversial topics, sometimes from recent tabloids.[4][5] Prominent titles include Jenna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, biographies by General Tommy Franks, professional wrestler Mick Foley, and radio talk show host Howard Stern, and three different books on the Scott Peterson case. Though ultimately owned by politically active Rupert Murdoch, ReganBooks disavows any political agenda, publishing, for example, books both supportive of and critical of George W. Bush.[6]
In August 2004, ReganBooks had three books on the New York Times best-seller list, including the top two non-fiction positions, and the highest profit ratio at HarperCollins.[7]
In 2005, ReganBooks announced plans to move from Manhattan to Los Angeles, making it one of the first major book publishers to move from the east to the west coast.[1][4][5]
In November 2006, ReganBooks announced plans to publish O.J. Simpson's book If I Did It; publication was later cancelled by News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch.[2] After the public fallout Newsweek reported, "Regan's meddlesome-free days are almost certainly over" and Murdoch will be "clamping" down on control.[2]
[edit] Books published
- Canseco, Jose. Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big. (ReganBooks, 2005) ISBN 0060746408
- Foley, Mark. Foley is Good: And the Real World is Faker Than Wrestling . (ReganBooks, 2002) ISBN 0061032417
- Gibson, John. Hating America: The New World Sport. (ReganBooks, 2005) ISBN 0060760516
- Hannity, Sean. Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism (ReganBooks, 2004) ISBN 0-06-058251-0
- Hannity, Sean. Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Against Liberalism (ReganBooks, 2002) ISBN 0-06-051455-8
- Jameson, Jenna. How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale. (ReganBooks, 2004) ISBN 0-06-053909-7
- Payne, Patricia. Sex Tips from a Dominatrix. (ReganBooks, 1999) ISBN 0060392878
- Simpson, O.J. If I Did It. (Cancelled in November 2006)
- Taormino, Tristan. Down and Dirty Sex Secrets. (ReganBooks, 2003) ISBN 0060988924
[edit] References
- ^ a b "The Gathering Storm" by Brendan Bernhard, LA Weekly, June 2, 2005
- ^ a b c Roberts, Johnnie (December 2006). "Publishing: No More Free Rein For Regan". Newsweek. Retrieved on 2006-10-29.
- ^ Roberts, Johnnie (November 4 2005). "Is this the angriest woman in the media?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 2006-10-29.
- ^ a b "Trend-Setting Publisher Plans To Move to and Go Hollywood" by Edward Wyatt, New York Times, April 12, 2005
- ^ a b "ReganBooks Moving to Hollywood", The Book Standard, April 12, 2005
- ^ "Political but Not Partisan: A Publisher Has It Both Ways", by Edward Wyatt, New York Times, October 13, 2004
- ^ "The Devil and Miss Regan" by Judith Newman, January 2005, Vanity Fair
[edit] External links
- ReganBooks from HarperCollins Publishers Official site
