Bookselling A Special Holiday Discount From mediabistro.com’s UnBeige By Neal on Nov. 27, 2007 - 7:30 AM Chronicle Books, which you’ll recall I mentioned last week has fabulous design, is running its annual “Friends and Family Holiday Sale,” and, according to UnBeige editor Alissa Walker, the publisher “thinks ...
Book Biz Get Ready for the NYCIP Book Fair By Neal on Nov. 26, 2007 - 11:41 AM Maybe it’s a bit early to start thinking about what to do this weekend, but I’m going to throw an idea out to you anyway: the New York Center for Independent Publishing (you once knew it as the Small Press Center) is h ...
Adaptation First Glimpse of 2008’s Solomon Kane Movie By Neal on Nov. 26, 2007 - 11:22 AM Pressed to name a Robert E. Howard character, some people might be able to come up with Conan the Barbarian; ask for two, and they might mention Red Sonja (although that’s only half-right). If you’ve got a hardcore How ...
Authors “New-York Ghost” Busted: Times Unmasks Zine Editor By Neal on Nov. 26, 2007 - 11:07 AM Usually, the literati who turn up in Sunday’s “The City” section of the NY Times are writing guest essays about their charming (or wretched) metropolitan lives, but Ed Park wound up as a profile subject when his ...
Reviews Gay Critics Brand Brokaw’s ’60s Straight and Narrow By Neal on Nov. 26, 2007 - 10:37 AM Frank Kameny has a big problem with Tom Brokaw‘s Boom!: Voices of the Sixties. The former NBC news anchor’s pop history of the decade includes nothing on the gay rights movement, not even the Stonewall riots, and that ...
Digital Marvel, DC Team Up Against Digital Bootleggers By Neal on Nov. 26, 2007 - 8:49 AM Newsarama blogger JK Parkin reported on a collaboration between Marvel and DC Comics to issue cease-and-desist letters against Z-Cult FM, a website that tracked new comic book releases and included links to BitTorrent files contai ...
Digital Kindle Story Isn’t Just in the Tech By Neal on Nov. 26, 2007 - 8:11 AM If you haven’t added Teleread: Bring the E-Books Home to your RSS feed yet, you should strongly consider it: David Rothman has been providing excellent reporting and commentary on the e-book corner of the publishing industry ...
Book Biz Bells Are Ringing: Book Community Weddings By Neal on Nov. 26, 2007 - 7:25 AM Congratulations to HarperCollins Children’s Books senior publicist Melissa Dittmar (left), who was married last week to film marketing director Stephen Bruno. Their wedding was featured in the NYT Sunday style section, along ...
Book Bix Yes, Yes, Publishing Is Debased, By All Means, Go On… By Neal on Nov. 23, 2007 - 9:39 AM “A Concerned Reader and Writer” wants us to think about something during the long weekend: “Have publishers completely lost their commitment to literary fiction simply because of the bottom line? Rachel Kahan sai ...
Bookselling Another Los Angeles Indie Sounds a Warning Cry By Neal on Nov. 23, 2007 - 9:21 AM “Frankly, we are losing the battle against on-line shopping, big box discounters, increasing rents, and a half-empty street,” the owners of Village Books, an independent bookstore in Pacific Palisades, warn. Feeling do ...