Platform Books Now on IndiePubs

Four Platform Books are now available for purchase at this address from IndiePubs.

C-Span Q&A with Peter Osnos

Peter Osnos, a longtime reporter, editor, and publisher and the author of An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen, talked about his family’s escape from Poland in 1939, working for I.F. Stone, covering the Vietnam War and publishing books by former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump as well as Russian… Continue reading C-Span Q&A with Peter Osnos

C-Span Book TV at New York Public Library

Journalist and publishing executive Peter Osnos, founder of PublicAffairs Books, reflected on publishing three presidents and reporting on the Vietnam War. This was a virtual event hosted by the New York Public Library. For further Platform Books information contact: info@platformbooksllc.net

NPR Morning Edition

NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with former journalist and publisher Peter L.W. Osnos about his book: An Especially Good View. For further Platform Books information contact: info@platformbooksllc.net

George Soros: A Life In Full

Platform Books LLC, the imprint launched by Peter and Susan Osnos, will partner with Harvard Business Review Press on its next book, a major assessment of the life and work of George Soros titled George Soros: A Life In Full—Survivor, Billionaire, Speculator, Philanthropist, Philosopher, Political Activist, Nemesis of the Far Right, Global Citizen. Rather than… Continue reading George Soros: A Life In Full

A Publishing Pod For Today’s World

Last week an item appeared on Axios, a much read Washington website (link), and in major publishing industry newsletters (link), reporting the launch of an imprint called Platform Books LLC with its first book to be An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen by, well, me. Medium is not the place for “sponsored” content. So,… Continue reading A Publishing Pod For Today’s World

Learning the Publishing Trade

In the fall of 1976, the CEO of Random House, Inc., Robert L. (Bob) Bernstein, accompanied by his wife Helen, came to Moscow where I was The Washington Post’s correspondent. My wife, Susan, and I were asked to show them hospitality. They were excellent guests. By the end of the week they had met, among… Continue reading Learning the Publishing Trade