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September 15-30, 2004 Edition
Insiders Say Weinstein
May Leave Disney, Taking
Miramax Books With Him
NEW YORK,NY/09/13/04Miramax Books’ co-founder Harvey Weinstein may be about to split with corporate parent, The Walt Disney Co., possibly taking the profitable publishing unit with him, according to a recent article in the New York Post. Miramax is the four-year-old publishing division of the Disney-owned film production powerhouse Miramax. Disney already owns another publisher, Hyperion.
Miramax was set to publish a series of ‘Young James Bond’ novels in spring 2005 together with Ian Fleming Publications. According to The Post, Miramax executives will not comment on the division’s future.
A September 12th article by John Cox, which appeared on Commanderbond.net, noted that Silverfin title listings on Amazon.comshowing the publisher as Disney-owned Hyperion Books for Childrenwere updated to list the publisher as just Miramax Books, indicating that a split may have already quietly occurred. Read the full Cox article, titled “‘Young Bond’ U.S. Publisher Faces Uncertain Future,” at http://www.commanderbond.net/Public/Stories/2536-1.shtml.
