Book Biz Day Three at the Goteborg Book Festival By Carmen on Sep. 26, 2006 - 6:31 AM Scott Selby, who’s been reporting from the Swedish Book Fair, brings back one last dispatch: “Sunday was the last day of the book fair. With the sun shining outside and most of the seminars over, things were winding do ...
Revolving Door PW’s New Publisher a Familiar Face By Carmen on Sep. 25, 2006 - 3:09 PM David Nudo spent a long and distinguished career as the sales director for Reed Business Information (the parent company of Publishers Weekly) where he launched a special sales department for PW, as well as for its affiliated publ ...
Trends And the Banned Played On… By Neal on Sep. 25, 2006 - 11:56 AM It’s Banned Books Week again. Among the titles irate parents and other assorted bluestockingsnoses* have been looking to expunge from schools and public libraries over the last year: It’s Perfectly Normal: for homosexu ...
Reviews Blumenthal Marginalized by NYTBR? By Neal on Sep. 25, 2006 - 10:58 AM Sometimes it feels like the only break the New York Times Book Review can catch from the blogosphere is a bad one—and this blog has certainly been no exception to the rule—so I’m delighted to say that I rather en ...
Book Biz Was Diane Setterfield’s success due to the internet? By Carmen on Sep. 25, 2006 - 9:16 AM That’s the conclusion the Times’ Richard Brooks comes to in his piece on Diane Setterfield‘s THE THIRTEENTH TALE and its slightly surprising debut at #1 on the NYT bestseller list with (allegedly) 70,000 copies s ...
Events Scene @ Arianna Huffington’s Book Party By Neal on Sep. 25, 2006 - 8:44 AM Arianna Huffington celebrated the publication of her latest book, On Becoming Fearless: In Love, Work, and Life, last Saturday night with a party at the Upper East Side townhouse that spiritual relationship advisor/author Kathy Fr ...
Trends Gosh, I guess I’ll have to get a book deal based on, um, my writing!! By Carmen on Sep. 25, 2006 - 8:04 AM Which, truth be told, is exactly how I’d want to do it – little things like having a career, building an audience, developing my ability, don’t you know. So it’s just a bit in the Department of Obvious that ...
Book Biz A Marketplace Deviation from the Noam By Neal on Sep. 25, 2006 - 7:35 AM And here I thought, when I joked on Thursday that the endorsement of Hegemony or Survival by Latin American leader Hugo Chavez might lead Noam Chomsky to replace Frank Rich as America’s best selling liberal, that I was just ...
Book Biz GalleyCat@ Goteborg Book Festival By Carmen on Sep. 25, 2006 - 7:34 AM Since neither Ron nor I could pop over to Sweden to attend (our travel budgets only go so far!) we enlisted Scott Selby to report back from the 22nd annual Goteborg Book Festival, a four-day fair that attracts over 100,000 visitor ...
Book Biz Saturday at the Goteborg Book Festival By Carmen on Sep. 25, 2006 - 7:30 AM Scott Selby, GalleyCat‘s correspondent in Goteborg, continued reporting on the fair’s proceedings on Saturday, with Christian Larsson supplying pictures: “Today’s top promotional giveaway: an advents calend ...