Publishing Wottakar’s: The Competition Commission says yes By Carmen on Mar. 30, 2006 - 9:22 AM After a four-month investigation, the Office of Fair Trading (which, for the uninitiated, is the UK’s antitrust-type office) has issued its preliminary findings about the proposed merger between HMV and Ottakar’s, whic ...
Authors Oh, the People You’ll Meet! By Neal on Mar. 30, 2006 - 8:53 AM Natalie R. Colins blogs about her signing at a Utah B&N to promote Wives and Sisters, a suspense novel set in a repressive Mormon community, describing the various people who come by her table. Including a type all of us in th ...
Authors Preachers get multimillion dollar book deals, too By Carmen on Mar. 30, 2006 - 8:39 AM And if you’re Joel Osteen, who the NYT describes as “the ever-smiling preacher, best-selling author and religious broadcaster,” you’re getting a hell of a lot of dought from the Free Press – something ...
Book Biz Late Reports from Charlottesville By Neal on Mar. 30, 2006 - 8:34 AM Some of the other participants in last weekend’s Virginia Festival of the Book are weighing in with their reports. Mystery writer Susan McBride offers up all sorts of details—you could plan a dining tour of Charlottesv ...
Awards And heeere’s the Nibbies By Carmen on Mar. 30, 2006 - 8:22 AM The British Book Awards have announced the winners of various categories after a televised awards ceremony held last night. They are: Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year: LABYRINTH by Kate Mosse WHSmith Book of the Year: HARR ...
Comic Books Clash of the Titans in Connecticut By Neal on Mar. 29, 2006 - 4:28 PM The Stamford Advocate takes an advance look at one of this summer’s major comic book plotlines? And why, you ask, would Marvel’s Civil War series be of interest to the suburban enclave’s 117,000 residents? Becaus ...
Publishing Wednesday Link Litterbox By Carmen on Mar. 29, 2006 - 9:07 AM Walden Media, which co-produced the movie THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, is getting into book publishing in a partnership with Penguin Young Readers. Penguin will publish books adapted from Walden screenplays. In exchange, ...
Digital Hugo Noms Embrace Academy Screener Model By Neal on Mar. 29, 2006 - 8:50 AM Science fiction writer John Scalzi, whose Old Man’s War is one of this year’s finalists for the Hugo prize for best novel, wants to get his book in front of as many voters as possible. So he’s giving it away onli ...
Authors This is one predictable success story By Carmen on Mar. 29, 2006 - 8:40 AM And by that, I mean predictable in a paranormal fashion, if you take Sylvia Browne’s psychic claims as gospel, or at least as a money making machine (which is how over 7 million copies of her books are in print as of this wr ...
Publishing French publishers to wannabe writers: stop sending us your stuff By Carmen on Mar. 29, 2006 - 8:21 AM Whereas most big-name US publishers and imprints stopped accepting unsolicited submissions eons ago, the French are a little slower on the uptake — and finding that there are a record number of unsolicited submissions coming ...