Authors Running with Lawsuits By Carmen on Mar. 28, 2006 - 8:40 AM Augusten Burroughs’ series of memoirs has made some people seriously happen in his hometown of Northhampton. And even though Burroughs is relucant to reveal the identity of the doctor he lived with as a child, townsfolk pret ...
Trends Cliffs Notes aren’t just for students anymore By Carmen on Mar. 28, 2006 - 8:25 AM The WSJ’S Emily Ann Brown looks at a growing trend among readers to find easy ways to summarize those oh-so-difficult books they’d like to read, but just don’t have the time to absorb fully: Summaries, mostly sen ...
Authors Unclear on the Concept By Neal on Mar. 27, 2006 - 4:40 PM From today’s Page Six: “Has Michael Gross met his match at the Met? Late last year, The Post revealed that the 740 Park author’s next book for Doubleday-Broadway would tackle 1000 Fifth, aka the Metropolitan Muse ...
Book Biz Book Fairs: VA Festival of the Book By Neal on Mar. 27, 2006 - 10:02 AM Scenes from last weekend’s Virginia Festival of the Book, held in Charlottesville. I was in town to share whatever it is I know about how blogs inform today’s book consumers and the majesty of ’70s Hollywood, but ...
Publishing Bertelsmann to sell off Sony BMG By Carmen on Mar. 27, 2006 - 9:34 AM Last week, when the German-based media conglomerate disclosed that one of its major shareholders, GBL, was looking to take its holdings public, speculation ensued about what might happen. And despite CEO Gunther Thielen’s de ...
Authors Murder, mayhem and Mafia Cops By Carmen on Mar. 27, 2006 - 9:01 AM The trial of two former NYPD Detectives accused of being mafia hitmen has just begun, and already things have turned towards the bizarre. Mostly because at the center of the trial is a memoir published way back in 1992 by Louis J. ...
Trends The advent of the paperless proof By Carmen on Mar. 27, 2006 - 8:48 AM Could the time-honored tradition of red pen marks on galleys be usurped by something else entirely? That’s what HWA Test and Data Management, a publishing services company, is hoping for with the launch of new software than ...
Publishing Breakup at Blackwell’s By Carmen on Mar. 27, 2006 - 8:12 AM The problem with family-owned businesses is that when the members start fighting, things turn ugly fast. And so it goes with the Blackwell family and the ten members of it who control the 126-year-old company that is the UK’ ...
Publishing Wottakar’s: WHSmith interested now? By Carmen on Mar. 27, 2006 - 7:51 AM That’s what The Business Online is reporting, as sources tell them WHSmith — which used to be a bunch of real bookstores until they decided food and stationery made them more money — is considering a bid on Ottak ...
Book Biz More Men for Mira By Carmen on Mar. 24, 2006 - 11:59 AM For the longest time, the name MIRA conjured up, well, its parent company, the romance-drenched Harlequin/Mills & Boon (depending on which country you’re talking about.) But over the last few years they’ve waded de ...