Publishing Murder, She Published By MBDev on Dec. 15, 2004 - 1:44 PM Google bombs can be violent. From “Hit and Run,” a Reason Magazine blog (read to the last line): Bernie Kerik: The Gift That Keeps On Giving. Via Drudge comes this Daily News story strongly indicating the DHS washout h ...
Publishing Top Ten Moments By MBDev on Dec. 9, 2004 - 5:35 PM from Vanity Fair‘s profile of editor Judith Regan: 10. Few employees have lasted more than a year. Those who have–such as editorial director Cal Morgan and managing editor Cathy Jones, who are married to each otherR ...
Publishing “The Craze that Changed the Publishing World” By MBDev on Nov. 22, 2004 - 1:32 PM You can’t avoid them — histories of something that altered everything for ever: cod, sugar, gunpowder. The London Times rounds up the new inanimate-tell-alls; the paper can’t avoid them, but maybe you can. Upcomi ...
Book Biz Help Wanted: This Season’s Most Notable Self-Help Titles By MBDev on Oct. 26, 2004 - 1:03 PM Last week, Publishers Weekly rolled out a laundry-list of new and upcoming titles in the “self-help” genre. And, since GC’s a fan of help of any kind (…hullo, agents! ) and believes PW‘s list didnR ...
Book Biz un·der·state·ment: “Disney saw that possibility far sooner than we did.” By MBDev on Oct. 22, 2004 - 9:57 AM un·der·state·ment: "Disney saw that possibility far sooner than we did."
Digital Submit to Her Authority By MBDev on Sep. 12, 2004 - 2:34 AM False encouragement, like fiction, relies on lying convincingly. And MFA students, if they’re decent and ambitous, try to learn the art of both — while hoping, privately, that their hammy classmates submit work to Fict ...
Book Biz Submit Your Manuscript … to a Bestseller List. By MBDev on Sep. 8, 2004 - 1:59 PM While reading is still considered a relatively private and intellectual endeavor, national book clubs seem to drive up sales by ensuring books’ social currency. Reading no longer needs to be the artsy equivalent of solitary ...