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Crown Publishers and RealClearPolitics
Announce Publishing Partnership To Cover 2012 Presidential Campaign As
It Unfolds
(October 7, 2011 – New York, NY)
RealClearPolitics (www.realclearpolitics.com), a leading website for
political news and commentary, has joined forces with Crown Publishers,
an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group at Random House, Inc., to
publish a series of news-breaking accounts about the 2012 presidential
campaign. The series will consist of three short-form e-book originals
that will be released at different stages of the campaign and one
full-length book that will include all three e-books as well as new
material. The full-length book will be published in both physical and
digital formats following the 2012 election.
The series will be co-written by Thomas Bevan, co-founder and Executive
Editor of RealClearPolitics, and Carl M. Cannon, Washington Editor for
RealClearPolitics.
The publishing collaboration was announced today by Molly Stern, Senior
Vice President, Publisher, Crown Publishers, who acquired World, Audio,
and Electronic Book rights directly from the authors. The series will
be edited by Sean Desmond, an Executive Editor at Crown.
The first e-original work, titled THE REALCLEARPOLITICS POLITICAL
DOWNLOAD ELECTION 2012: The Battle Begins, will be published on
November 4, 2011 and will be priced at $1.99. It will give readers a
behind-the-scenes look at the early stages of the 2012 race, providing
in- depth reporting, analysis and the latest coverage on the campaigns
of President Obama and the GOP candidates.
Under Bevan’s editorial leadership, RealClearPolitics has grown into
one of the most widely read political websites with an average of 5
million readers every month. Cannon has covered every presidential
campaign and convention since 1984 and has interviewed every U.S.
president since Gerald Ford. He covered the White House for 15 years,
during both the Clinton and Bush administrations, winning the two most
prestigious journalism awards for presidential coverage.
Said Ms. Stern, “We are thrilled to be joining forces with
RealClearPolitics, which has earned its place as one of the biggest and
most influential political resources available today. With their depth
of experience in covering presidential campaigns and their knowledge of
the candidates, Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon will deliver a riveting,
real-time chronicle of what is shaping up to be a momentous political
season.”
Thomas Bevan added: “RealClearPolitics is excited to be partnering with
Crown for this ground breaking venture in political campaign coverage.”
Crown Publishers is an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group at Random
House, Inc. The parent company of Random House is Bertelsmann AG.