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Max Mira(ge)

Is Vistacomp’s “Weekly Publishing Industry Moves” newsletter written by a) robots, b) crack-smoking robots, or c) Baudrillard? Publishers Lunch’s April 1 “news” was obviously a joke, but it seems either unnervingly earnest or unnervingly “post” — as in post-modern/post-truthful/post-playful — when repeated verbatim in Vistacomp’s newsletter:

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Meanwhile, PW reports that Harvey Weinstein

[will continue] to serve as Miramax Books publisher until 2007 and [oversee] the publication of unreleased books still under contract. In the meantime, Weinstein will set up a separate publishing house that will publish newly acquired books. (This is not an April Fool’s story.)

Rob Weisbach will be the editor in charge of both operations, overseeing the current Miramax frontlist and acquiring/directing the Weinstein’s new line. Hyperion will retain all Miramax backlist books, and will begin acquiring titles to add to the Miramax line. Hyperion will distribute Miramax frontlist and backlist, and is likely to distribute titles from Weinstein’s new house.

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