Reviews Taking Sci-Fi Seriously By Neal on May. 31, 2006 - 10:19 AM It’s already become conventional wisdom among science fiction pros and fans that the NYTBR sci-fi column stinks, even though detractors have only ever heard one example upon which to base their judgments. By contrast, the Wa ...
Trends Have Platform, will Publish By Carmen on May. 31, 2006 - 9:19 AM <a href="http://www.publishersmarketplace.com”>Publishers Marketplace’s semi-snarky headline on this story is that the NY Observer has “finally discovered platforms” and I can’t really argu ...
Authors Yes Virginia, there will be a sequel to the Graduate By Carmen on May. 31, 2006 - 8:36 AM I have to confess something from the getgo: though I thought the movie was fine and dandy, I hated the book. Hated, loathed, despised it. Why? Because Benjamin Braddock was a whiny slacker who didn’t want to take responsibil ...
Publishing Today in Wottakar’s: HMV officially makes the buy By Carmen on May. 31, 2006 - 8:13 AM Has the saga finally ended? Will WHSmith counter-offer? It’s all so exhausting to keep up, but Reuters reports that HMV will finally, finally buy Ottakar’s for a cut-price 62.8 million pounds (or a measly 285p per shar ...
Events Scenes from the Girls’ Night Out Party By Neal on May. 31, 2006 - 8:10 AM When Sarah and I received our invites to the launch party for Girls’ Night Out, the latest benefit anthology from Red Dress Ink, we were expecting the usual sort of book reception: a couple authors, some industry pros, and a ...
Digital BookExpo Aftermath Includes Dueling Podcasts By Neal on May. 31, 2006 - 8:01 AM For all you folks who didn’t get to go to BookExpo America, you can still listen to the official BEA podcasts, which so far include speeches by Tim Russert and John Updike and a five-minute interview with Pat Schroeder. But ...
Bookselling No Sucess Through Clean Living, by Barry Bonds? By Neal on May. 31, 2006 - 7:18 AM “If you can’t find a book on our site,” boasts Abebooks.com, “it probably doesn’t exist.” So they decided to come up with some of those imaginary titles for you, from Henry VIII’s Making M ...
Authors John Updike doesn’t exactly heart the Internet By Carmen on May. 31, 2006 - 7:16 AM First proof of such? John Updike‘s speech at BEA (now available in podcast format) where he went off, essentially, on the paradigm shift in publishing towards more technologically-based means. Next up is today’s profil ...
Reviews One Week They’re Literati,The Next They’re Foodies By Neal on May. 30, 2006 - 12:42 PM So the NYTBR decided to publish an all-food issue over the Memorial Day weekend—its second themed edition in two weeks (following last week’s all-fiction issue) and its third (you remember January’s “Litera ...
Publishing Hachette Shifts UK Sci-Fi Line to US By Neal on May. 30, 2006 - 12:08 PM Here’s a quick tidbit from Publishers Lunch: the British science fiction imprint Orbit, a division of Little, Brown UK, will be relocating to the Hachette Book Group’s New York office as part of a broader effort to tak ...