The CEO of Qatar Airlines, has apologized for calling U.S. flight attendants “grandmothers” during a speech in Ireland last week.
Akbar Al Baker bragged that the average age of Qatar Airways’ cabin crew is just 26, while passengers on U.S airlines are “always being served by grandmothers.”
“Competition among air carriers is robust. This is healthy, especially for our passengers, but our competition must remain respectful,” he wrote in a letter to the Association of Flight Attendants. “For the cabin crew serving aboard all air carriers, professionalism, skill and dedication are the qualities that matter. I was wrong to imply that other factors,...
Akbar Al Baker bragged that the average age of Qatar Airways’ cabin crew is just 26, while passengers on U.S airlines are “always being served by grandmothers.”
“Competition among air carriers is robust. This is healthy, especially for our passengers, but our competition must remain respectful,” he wrote in a letter to the Association of Flight Attendants. “For the cabin crew serving aboard all air carriers, professionalism, skill and dedication are the qualities that matter. I was wrong to imply that other factors,...
- 7/14/2017
- by Cathy Free
- PEOPLE.com
This story is a week old, but I neglected to mention it when it hit: Amazon declares that Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” trilogy is the highest-selling series ever for them in the Us.
This does not mean that Collins’s books have sold more copies overall than, for example, J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series, which was the prior record-holder. And it doesn’t mean any of the things implied in Sara Nelson’s self-lauding statement at the link.
What it means — and what everyone who works in publishing already knows, but doesn’t usually like to say in public — is that Amazon is capturing an ever-larger share of the book business, which means that they sell a larger percent of books now than they did ten years ago — so of course the big sellers now are bigger for Amazon than the big sellers were ten years ago. (Look...
This does not mean that Collins’s books have sold more copies overall than, for example, J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series, which was the prior record-holder. And it doesn’t mean any of the things implied in Sara Nelson’s self-lauding statement at the link.
What it means — and what everyone who works in publishing already knows, but doesn’t usually like to say in public — is that Amazon is capturing an ever-larger share of the book business, which means that they sell a larger percent of books now than they did ten years ago — so of course the big sellers now are bigger for Amazon than the big sellers were ten years ago. (Look...
- 8/28/2012
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Harry Potter, the annoying bespectacled wizard in training who has captured the imaginations of kids and adults the world over has been ousted from his throne atop Amazon’s best sellers list, according to the site’s Editorial Director Sara Nelson.
So who’s kicked old four eyes off the top spot? Perhaps unsurprisingly it’s Suzanne Collins’ mammoth hit series The Hunger Games which impressively outsells Jk Rowling’s work in hardback and e-book editions despite only consisting of three novels as opposed to Potter’s seven.
Speaking to the Wallstreet Journal, Nelson said:
“Interestingly, this series is only three books versus Harry Potter’s seven, and to achieve this result in just four years is a great testament to both the popularity of the work and, we think, the growth in reading digitally during that time.”
Fans of the Potter series are blaming e-readers such as Kindle which...
So who’s kicked old four eyes off the top spot? Perhaps unsurprisingly it’s Suzanne Collins’ mammoth hit series The Hunger Games which impressively outsells Jk Rowling’s work in hardback and e-book editions despite only consisting of three novels as opposed to Potter’s seven.
Speaking to the Wallstreet Journal, Nelson said:
“Interestingly, this series is only three books versus Harry Potter’s seven, and to achieve this result in just four years is a great testament to both the popularity of the work and, we think, the growth in reading digitally during that time.”
Fans of the Potter series are blaming e-readers such as Kindle which...
- 8/20/2012
- by Matt Aspin
- Obsessed with Film
The Hunger Games trilogy has overtaken the Harry Potter novels as the best-selling book series on Amazon.com. CNN reports that the announcement was made by the Amazon company on Friday with an official statement from editorial director of books Sara Nelson. "Since debuting in 2008, Katniss Everdeen and the Hunger Games have taken the world by storm, much as Harry Potter did a decade before," Nelson explained. "Interestingly, this series is only three books versus Harry Potter's seven, and (more)...
- 8/18/2012
- by By Zeba Blay
- Digital Spy
Thanksgiving travelers are in a furor about the Tsa's aggressive new pat-down policy, but those on the receiving end of their ire have it worse. Nicole Laporte talks to flight attendants about dirty diapers, bulkhead envy, and more. Plus, see The Daily Beast's ranking of the country's best and worst airports.
Air rage is reaching a new crescendo with the Transportation Security Administration's new policy of submitting airline passengers to aggressive pat-downs and privacy-invading scans. It is just the latest frustration to arise in the post-9/11 travel world-in which the battered airline industry has inflicted wave after wave of service cutbacks while charging fees for everything from luggage to peanuts-and, unsurprisingly, John Tyner's now famous cri de coeur ( "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested" !) touched a nerve.
Related story on The Daily Beast: 8 Most Frequent Flier Freakouts
But as much as passengers have suffered during these times of airborne austerity,...
Air rage is reaching a new crescendo with the Transportation Security Administration's new policy of submitting airline passengers to aggressive pat-downs and privacy-invading scans. It is just the latest frustration to arise in the post-9/11 travel world-in which the battered airline industry has inflicted wave after wave of service cutbacks while charging fees for everything from luggage to peanuts-and, unsurprisingly, John Tyner's now famous cri de coeur ( "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested" !) touched a nerve.
Related story on The Daily Beast: 8 Most Frequent Flier Freakouts
But as much as passengers have suffered during these times of airborne austerity,...
- 11/23/2010
- by Nicole LaPorte
- The Daily Beast
How can you assure yourself a bestseller? Become a celebrity. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 3]
There are two kinds of books that are almost surefire hits and which publishers will bid what may seem like insane amounts: Those written by (or ghostwritten for) celebrities, and those written by (or ghostwritten for) celebrities.
Andre Agassi signed a deal for a reported $5 million for his upcoming autobiography, which isn't yet available but already inching its way toward the top of Amazon's sales rankings. Bill Clinton received $15 million to write his 2005 autobiography, My Life, widely viewed as the largest advance in book publishing history (until Oprah Winfrey signed a contract for a weight-loss book). Hillary Clinton took in an $8 million advance for her tale of her years in the White House. While their publishers shelled out an armored car's worth of cash, the Clintons and Winfrey sold millions of books and easily earned back their advances and then some.
There are two kinds of books that are almost surefire hits and which publishers will bid what may seem like insane amounts: Those written by (or ghostwritten for) celebrities, and those written by (or ghostwritten for) celebrities.
Andre Agassi signed a deal for a reported $5 million for his upcoming autobiography, which isn't yet available but already inching its way toward the top of Amazon's sales rankings. Bill Clinton received $15 million to write his 2005 autobiography, My Life, widely viewed as the largest advance in book publishing history (until Oprah Winfrey signed a contract for a weight-loss book). Hillary Clinton took in an $8 million advance for her tale of her years in the White House. While their publishers shelled out an armored car's worth of cash, the Clintons and Winfrey sold millions of books and easily earned back their advances and then some.
- 11/5/2009
- by Adam Penenberg
- Fast Company
Outside Diane von Furstenberg's Meatpacking District showroom last night in New York City, a little crowd gathered. Writer Binnie Kirshenbaum, Sara Nelson, the new books director of O, The Oprah Magazine, and Sterling Lord power agent Ira Silverberg stood, smoking, discussing the all-media showdown about to take place: the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses’ sixth annual spelling-bee fund-raiser. P-a-l-a-v-e-r “Sara wants to kick Burnham’s ass,” Silverberg said. Nelson had lost to HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham last year on “astigmatism.” “Ira said that, not me!” laughed Nelson. Inside, C.L.M.P. executive director Jeffrey Lependorf circulated. Nelson’s nemesis Burham chatted with authors James Frey and Joseph O’Neill (who left before his wife, Vogue editor Sally Singer could display her prowess). “The word I’m most familiar with is ‘motherfucker,’ and I don’t think they’ll give me that one,” mused Frey.
- 10/27/2009
- Vanity Fair
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