Bookselling Harvard Bookstore’s Grip on Students Loosening By Neal on Sep. 26, 2007 - 12:13 PM (Note: This is a story about the Harvard Coop, the college’s official bookseller, not the Harvard Book Store, which is an indie shop just a few blocks away.) Thanks to boingboing, I’ve been doing my best to keep up on ...
Reviews Weighing In on New NYTBR Lists By Neal on Sep. 26, 2007 - 11:50 AM LA Times book man Josh Getlin sifts through the industry implications of the NYTBR‘s new bestseller list strategy, which splits trade and mass market paperbacks into two separate categories. The basic question being, “ ...
Adaptation A Sneak Peek at The Kite Runner Movie By Neal on Sep. 26, 2007 - 11:28 AM Last night, after they let me out of the courthouse, I went over to the Hearst building, where editorial director Ellen Levine was hosting an advance screening of The Kite Runner in the company theater. I’d never read the no ...
Book Biz elsewhere on mediabistro.com: Pitching Lisa Hagan By Neal on Sep. 26, 2007 - 10:28 AM In the latest installment of mediabistro.com’s “Pitching an Agent” series, Lisa Hagan of Paraview Literary Agency discusses what it takes to stand out from the 100 or so nonfiction book proposals she receives eve ...
Book Biz It’s a Big Weekend for Book Festivals! By Neal on Sep. 26, 2007 - 10:20 AM If you’re going to the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., or the nearby Baltimore Book Festival, or the West Hollywood Book Fair this weekend, and you take pictures, please feel free to send them my way! If I’ ...
Comic Books What Scott McCloud Did Before Understanding Comics By Neal on Sep. 26, 2007 - 9:00 AM Scott McCloud‘s Zot!, one of the best independent comics of the 1980s, has been sold to HarperCollins as a 576-page graphic novel, which will include several issues from the original comic book that have never been reprinted ...
Awards All Your Prize Are Belong to Dybek By Neal on Sep. 26, 2007 - 8:43 AM Mondayy, Chicago poet and short story writer Stuart Dybek (left) received a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation, which comes to $500,000 spread out over five years. Yesterday, he got the $30,000 Rea Award for ...
Book Biz It’s a Movie Tie-In! It’s an Oprah Pick! (Or Not!) By Neal on Sep. 26, 2007 - 8:01 AM The first good guess I received at to which book Oprah Winfrey will pick for her book club on October 5 was Dave Eggers‘s What Is the What?, especially since it was already due to come out in a Vintage paperback the followin ...
Sponsored Content The Novel That Wasn’t There By Neal on Sep. 25, 2007 - 12:03 PM “What’s going on with Hugh Laurie‘s novel The Paper Soldier?” asks an anonymous reader. Good question! According to Amazon.com, the sequel to his 1997 thriller-parody The Gun Seller is being published Thurs ...
Digital Baen, Subterranean Team Up for Sci-Fi Ebooks By Neal on Sep. 25, 2007 - 11:21 AM Earlier this month, two independent science fiction and fantasy publishers, Subterranean Press and Baen Books, reached an agreement that will create electronic editions of certain Subterranean titles to be sold on Baen’s Web ...