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| Parent company | Miramax |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1979 |
| Founder | Bob andHarvey Weinstein |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Key people | Jonathan Burnham Rob Weisbach |
| Official website | www |
Miramax Books is an American publishing company started byBob andHarvey Weinstein ofMiramax Films to publish movietie-ins.[1] Between 2000 and 2005, while Jonathan Burnham was its president and editor-in-chief, the imprint published the memoirs of many major celebrities, includingDavid Boies,Madeleine Albright,Rudy Giuliani, andTim Russert, as well asHelen DeWitt'sThe Last Samurai. It later published the first three books ofRick Riordan'sPercy Jackson & the Olympians series.
Burnham was appointed in December 1998, planning to publish 10 to 15 books a year, both fiction and non-fiction, starting in 2000.[2] Between 2000 and 2002, it was a division of Miramax'sTalk Media, known as Talk Miramax Books.Tina Brown, chair of Talk Media, recruited a number of high-profile authors for the imprint, such as historianSimon Schama and British novelistMartin Amis.Rudy Giuliani was paid $3 million in advance for hisautobiography (prior to9/11). By April 2002, Talk Miramax had published 30 books, five of which had made national bestseller lists. The unit generated $10 million in revenue in 2001 and was profitable.[3]
After Brown left Talk Media in 2002, it was again renamed Miramax Books. In 2004, Miramax Books won the auction for Riordan'sThe Lightning Thief manuscript.[4]
When the Weinsteins leftDisney in 2005, five years beforeMiramax Films was sold, they retained partial ownership of Miramax Books under a joint operating agreement ending September 30, 2007. CEO Rob Weisbach oversaw both Miramax Books and Weinstein Books, while Disney executives Robert Miller andDeborah Dugan acquired new titles. The Weinsteins kept a financial stake in books scheduled for publication between April 2005 and September 2007.[5]
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