Sponsored Content Bo Knew Football—and Business, Too By Neal on Nov. 29, 2006 - 12:47 PM Warner Books has announced that just before his death two weeks ago, famed Michigan football coach and athletic director Bo Schembechler had completed the manuscript for Bo’s Lasting Lessons: A Legendary Coach Teaches the Ti ...
Comic Books HBO Greenlights Preacher Series By Neal on Nov. 29, 2006 - 11:59 AM The good news for comics fans, as reported by Borys Kit of the Hollywood Reporter is that there’s going to be a new HBO series based on Preacher, the Garth Ennis-scripted story of an apostate Texas minister who, possessed of ...
Publishing BREAKING: Houghton Mifflin Accepts Buyout Offer By Neal on Nov. 29, 2006 - 11:23 AM We told you this morning Riverdeep was nearly ready to acquire Houghton Mifflin, and now the deal’s been done—the Associated Press reports that Houghton has accepted $1.75 billion in cash. So what happened to the $3.5 ...
Awards Scene @ The Book Standard Teen Book Video Awards By Carmen on Nov. 29, 2006 - 9:31 AM Tribeca Cinemas was the place to be last night as The Book Standard hosted its latest iteration of their Book Video Awards – this time for young adult novels by Meg Rosoff, Markus Zusak and Libba Bray. A lengthy cocktail hou ...
Reviews Glancing Inside the NYTBR Notable Books By Neal on Nov. 29, 2006 - 8:37 AM Not to dis Bookslut librarian Raina Bloom’s statistical analysis of the 2006 NYTBR Notable Books list, but her statements about how more than half of the authors selected have written for the New York Times since 1980 aren&# ...
Events Scene @ Denzel Washington’s Book Party By Neal on Nov. 29, 2006 - 8:12 AM We didn’t even know Denzel Washington had a book party last week to celebrate the success of A Hand to Guide Me, his collection of inspirational stories from celebrities about their mentors, so clearly we need to crack the w ...
Revolving Door Philip Turner jumps from C&G to Sterling By Carmen on Nov. 29, 2006 - 8:03 AM Shelf Awareness reports that Philip Turner, v-p and editor-in-chief at Carroll & Graf, Thunder’s Mouth and Philip Turner Books at Avalon Publishing, is joining Sterling Publishing, the Barnes & Noble subsidiary, to d ...
Awards The Costa Book Award shortlists By Carmen on Nov. 29, 2006 - 7:44 AM The awards formerly known as the Whitbreads have announced their shortlists, and though there’s a decidedly male-centric slant, the Times somehow conflates this into a claim that “no female novelist has made the cut ...
Publishing Riverdeep close to buying Houghton Mifflin By Carmen on Nov. 29, 2006 - 6:59 AM The New York Times reports that Riverdeep, an Irish educational software company, is close to making a deal to acquire the textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin for about $3.5 billion, including debt, people involved in the negotiat ...
Sponsored Content AP Does Right by the Blogosphere By Neal on Nov. 28, 2006 - 4:16 PM Remember our item yesterday about Philip K. Dick and the Library of America? Well, Associated Press book reporter Hillel Italie spread the word far and wide in a story filed this afternoon, and we’re totally grooving on the ...