Publishing Book Sales Might Be Rising, But Book Jobs? Not So Much By Neal on Nov. 30, 2007 - 9:57 AM Here’s a sobering statistic from the Progressive Policy Institute: “Since 2001, employment in the publishing side of America’s book industry has fallen from 88,000 to 81,000, while book-printing employment has dr ...
Authors Dateline Reykjavik: Getting Settled In By Neal on Nov. 30, 2007 - 9:00 AM Yrsa Sigurdardottir signed copies of her Icelandic murder mystery, Last Rituals, Wednesday afternoon at Baltimore’s BWI Airport, next to the IcelandAir terminal, as her publisher, William Morrow, made free copies available t ...
Sponsored Content Beschloss’s New Book Deal? That’s Old News! By Neal on Nov. 30, 2007 - 8:19 AM Remember how I told you a couple weeks ago to keep your eye on Leon Neyfakh, the New York Observer‘s publishing industry correspondent? Here’s a perfect example of why: Yesterday, Publisher’s Weekly made a hullab ...
Events Scene @ Louisa McCormack’s Book Party By Neal on Nov. 30, 2007 - 12:04 AM On my way to Jack Romanos‘s retirement party Tuesday night, I stopped by the Little Inn, where Canadian television personality Louisa McCormack was celebrating the release of her first novel, Six Weeks to Toxic, in the US. W ...
Book Biz I Have Stepped Out Briefly… By Neal on Nov. 29, 2007 - 5:32 PM Sorry for the relative silence today, and apologies in advance for tomorrow as well—I am in Reykjavik with several other media types, being shown the local sights by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, the author of the international bests ...
Publishing Philip Levine Feted Tonight at Cooper Union By Neal on Nov. 29, 2007 - 8:30 AM “You know what work is—if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it.” Tonight at 7 p.m., the Cooper Union is hosting a birthday tribute to poet Philip Levine that just ...
Events Jack Romanos Has a Posse By Neal on Nov. 29, 2007 - 8:09 AM Outgoing Simon & Schuster CEO Jack Romanos is flanked at his retirement party by, from left to right (ironically enough): Mary Matalin, Lee Iacocca, Mary Higgins Clark, Vince Flynn, Paula Deen, and James Carville. Others who c ...
Bookselling September: Another Month of Rising Book Sales By Neal on Nov. 28, 2007 - 11:13 AM The Association of American Publishers released its latest figures on book sales: an increase of 5.7 percent for the month of September, and yearly sales maintaining their climb with an increase of 9.9 percent. The Harry Potter bu ...
Book Biz Warning: Lots of Violence, All of It Gratuitous By Neal on Nov. 28, 2007 - 10:58 AM Last week, when I ran Mike Huckabee’s endorsement from Chuck Norris, I warned you that there was an official promotional video in the works for The Truth About Chuck Norris, the book capitalizing on the Internet meme. This i ...
Authors Edgar-Winning Charles Ardai Ineligible for Edgar? By Neal on Nov. 28, 2007 - 9:04 AM Sarah Weinman may have left GalleyCat, but that doesn’t mean she’s stopped breaking stories. Yesterday afternoon, she posted on her own blog about Charles Ardai‘s run-in with the Mystery Writers of America. In ad ...