Publishing The Russian publishing industry By Carmen on Feb. 23, 2006 - 8:44 AM The St. Petersburg Times’ Angela Davydova offers a glimpse into how publishing is done in Russia, and how publishers there “are seeing an increasingly sophisticated market for foreign literature.” That may be hel ...
Authors Cherie Booth’s side project By Carmen on Feb. 23, 2006 - 8:38 AM The wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair is plenty busy already as a wife, mom, lawyer, and oh yeah, the whole “wife of Prime Minister” thing. So how’d she find time to co-author a legal textbook that hovers around ...
Awards Nibble on the Nibbie shortlist By Carmen on Feb. 23, 2006 - 8:31 AM The British Book Awards announced all manners of shortlist yesterday for various categories, including the WHSmith Book of the Year, which could prove to be more exciting than usual. That’s because Piers Morgan and Jeremy Cl ...
Bookselling Borders To Reward, Er, Hoarders (of Books) By Neal on Feb. 23, 2006 - 8:01 AM Earlier this week, the Borders book/music/video retail chain announced a new customer incentive program called Borders Rewards. Apparently, if you’re a card-carrying member, and you spend more than $50 any given month, you&# ...
Bookselling Forget Your Amazon Sales Rank… By Neal on Feb. 22, 2006 - 3:53 PM Nielsen Bookscan and The Book Standard have just launched the Book Sales Research Service. Here’s the gist: Access to “weekly and year-to-date sales figures for any edition of any book, from January 2004 to the present ...
Book Biz Not Just 1st in Alphabetical Order… By Neal on Feb. 22, 2006 - 1:09 PM Remember this morning’s item about the JT LeRoy film posters? Gawker readers didn’t find out about it until slightly after noon…and initially fumbled a crucial detail to boot. In their defense, though, they did d ...
Book Biz Unbridled Pursestrings Looser Than Ever By Neal on Feb. 22, 2006 - 11:34 AM Denver-based indie publisher Unbridled Books has announced that its July release, the debut novel Song of the Crow by Layne Maheu, will have a marketing budget of $50,000. In New York, figures like that might get disbursed with so ...
Revolving Door Ed Wyatt moves to Hollywood By Carmen on Feb. 22, 2006 - 10:29 AM Publishers Lunch reports that the New York Times’ publishing reporter — who basically gave us most of our Freywatch material because he wouldn’t stop writing about it — is moving to the other coast this sum ...
Publishing Thomas Nelson goes private By Carmen on Feb. 22, 2006 - 9:13 AM The noted publisher of Christian, inspirational and family values-based books has decided — in a bit of a twist — to take their company off the public market, entering into a definitive agreement to go private in a tra ...
Authors The six-figure sophomore By Carmen on Feb. 22, 2006 - 9:03 AM With a title like that, what’s the sense in refashioning another one? The Boston Globe’s David Mehegan talks to the newest bonus baby in publishing, 19-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan. She explains how her life changed bac ...