Publishing Everything Old Is New Again By Neal on Oct. 27, 2005 - 8:43 AM Today’s NYT profile of Simon Spotlight Entertainment publisher Jennifer Bergstrom acts like her cultivation of books “devoted to pop culture for readers age 18 to 35” is a new direction, but consider one of the m ...
Comic Books Manga Making Inroads in Europe, Too By Neal on Oct. 26, 2005 - 2:50 PM Bloomberg.com reports on the reaction to manga‘s rising popularity in Europe, building from the satirical response in the new Asterix graphic novel to the financials and giving a simple reason for the books’ popularity ...
Publishing Spiffing Up the Classics By Neal on Oct. 26, 2005 - 12:51 PM Publishers are always happy to give a classic book a makeover and send it back out into the marketplace. Maira Kalman, to take one recent example, has recieved a lot of attention for her work on the new illustrated edition of Stru ...
Adaptation | Book Biz What Would Karen Joy Fowler Think? By Neal on Oct. 26, 2005 - 12:35 PM Longbourn describes itself as “an online community that celebrates the work of Jane Austen as we look forward to the Focus Features release of Pride & Prejudice.” In other words, and as if the big ol’ picture ...
Bookselling Street to Amazon: “Good, Just Not Good Enough” By Neal on Oct. 26, 2005 - 12:20 PM PW Daily reports a “strong quarter for Amazon Media,” noting specifically that thanks in large part to about 1.6 million copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, “sales at Amazon.com’s North Americ ...
Book Biz Collins McCormick has a new name, finally By Carmen on Oct. 26, 2005 - 11:51 AM In the aftermath of the split last month between David McCormick and Nina Collins, the biggest question was what would happen to the rest of the agency’s stable: Amy Williams, PJ Mark and Leslie Falk. Now Publishers Lunch re ...
Book Biz When In-House Publicity Is Enough By Neal on Oct. 26, 2005 - 11:38 AM Laila Lalami, the creator of the popular Moorish Girl litblog, weighs in with her own take on our recent debate over how authors can handle the publicity cycle. “When [Lalami’s debut] Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits ...
Adaptation A Million Little Script Changes By Neal on Oct. 26, 2005 - 8:53 AM Today’s the day James Frey cleans up his language and chats with Oprah and her friends about A Million Little Pieces. Or, as Page Six put it, “to plug his book.” (I don’t exactly know that the book really n ...
Book Biz See, she really can read! By Carmen on Oct. 25, 2005 - 5:00 PM There are so many ways to dissect this story about Victoria “Posh” Beckham: 1. She is reading a book, after claiming she never read one. 2. She was “immersed” in said book (while shopping in LA, natch) when ...
Digital Dissension in the AAP Ranks By Neal on Oct. 25, 2005 - 11:42 AM Soft Skull Press publisher Richard Nash started up a blog recently, and he’s weighed in on the lawsuit filed by the Academy of American Publishers against Google over its digital library project. Although he’s a member ...