Perigee Pens Deal With Variety to Publish New Line of Entertainment Books

Posted on February 27, 1998

Perigee Books, an imprint of Penguin Putnam Inc., announced that it will publish a series of titles with Variety, the international entertainment weekly. Each new book featuring the Variety logo will address a "Hollywood" topic and will include reference, business, how-to, and history titles.

"This relationship gives Perigee a wonderful opportunity to publish a wide range of reference books that carry the authority of the preeminent name in entertainment journalism," says John Duff, publisher of Perigee. The original titles will be published by Putnam (hardcover), Perigee (trade paper) and Berkley (mass market) as appropriate.

The titles scheduled for release through 1999 include, The Emmys by Thomas O'Neil (August 1998), The Variety Guide To Film Festivals by Steven Gaydos and the Editors of Variety (October 98), The Grammys by Thomas O'Neil (February 99), and The Variety Movie Guide (March 99).

"The public's interest in the entertainment business continues to increase exponentially and Variety is delighted to be associated with Perigee in developing a series of lively comprehensive books that will feed this interest," says Peter Bart, vice president and editor-in-chief of Variety. "As the international entertainment weekly, Variety has the largest staff of reporters world-wide of any publication reporting on the show biz scene and these resources will be mobilized in developing this series of books." Variety also publishes Los Angeles and New York based dailies.

Perigee Books is an imprint of Penguin Putnam Inc., a division of Pearson plc, the international media group.