For Immediate Release

Contact: Tina Jordan

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BOOK EDITORS ONLINE AND UNSCRIPTED:

Exerpt Availability Will Enrich Webcast Experience

Penguin's Kathryn Court Joins Editors' Roster  

New York, NY September 3, 2008. On Tuesday, September 16, the Association of American Publishers will launch the first of its Book Editors Online & Unscripted  live web casts featuring the top editors in the industry previewing their Winter 2009 titles.   Today the Association announced that retailers, media, and industry professionals who register for the web casts will have an opportunity to download chapter excerpts of the titles being presented in advance of the editors’ presentations.

AAP also announced the addition of Kathryn Court, President & Publisher of Penguin Books, to the outstanding roster of editorial professionals participating in the webcasts. 

The presentations are expected to spotlight some of the most talked-about and eagerly awaited titles for Winter 2009, with new authors taking center stage.  Presentations will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Publishers Weekly editor-in-chief Sara Nelson.  Announced earlier in the summer by AAP, Book Editors Online & Unscripted will give book buyers and media the opportunity to hear about new titles via a flexible, economic format, without leaving their desks. 

Catalogue copy, book jackets and chapter excerpts of select titles to be presented can be accessed upon registration approval. Registration is free. To register for any of the following presentations, please visit the web site at http://publishers.webex.com.

Following is the current schedule of featured editors and some of the titles to be discussed: 

Tuesday, Sept. 16, 12 – 12:30 pm:  Rebecca Salitan, SVP and Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Animals Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin  

Tuesday, Sept. 16, 3  – 3:30 pm:  Tom Miller, Executive Editor, John Wiley & Sons

The Youth Equation, by Jeffrey Dover

Wednesday, Sept, 17, 12  – 12:30 pm: Bill Thomas, Editor In Chief and Publisher, Doubleday Publishing Group

Sag Harbor, by Colson Whitehead

Wednesday, Sept. 17, 3 – 3:30 pm:  Geoff Shandler, Vice President, Editor In Chief, Little Brown

Beat The Reaper, by Josh Bazell

Thursday, Sept. 18, 12 – 12:30 pm:  Cindy Spiegel, Senior Vice President & Publisher, Spiegel & Grau

American Rust, by Phillipp Meyer

Thursday, Sept 18, 3 – 3:30 pm:  Amy Einhorn, VP & Publisher, Editor In Chief, Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam Sons

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

Tuesday, Sept 23 12 – 12:30 pm:  George Witte, Vice President, Editor In Chief, St. Martins Press

War Child, by Emmanuel Jal

Tuesday, Sept. 23 3 – 3:30 pm:  Eric Raab, Editor, Tor/Forge

Boca Knights, by Steven M. Forman

Tuesday, Sept 23 3:45 – 4:15 pm:  Kathryn Court, President & Publisher, Penguin Books

Sonata for Miriam, by Linda Olsson

Wednesday, Sept 24, 12 – 12:30 pm:  Gillian Blake, Executive Editor, Collins

My Booky Wooky, by Russell Brand

Wednesday, Sept 24, 3 – 3:30 pm:  Helen Atsma, Editor, Henry Holt and Company

The Spare Room, by Helen Garner

Thursday, Sept 25, 12 – 12:30 pm:  Chuck Adams, Executive Editor, Algonquin Books  

Memory of Desire, by Robert Goolrick

Thursday, Sept 25 3 pm – 3:30 pm:  Deb Futter, VP, Editor In Chief, Grand Central Publishing

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, by Tiffany Baker