Bookselling Everything Must Go, Just Not Quite So Quickly By Neal on Aug. 22, 2008 - 10:57 AM For the last month, the downtown annex of Strand Books has been offering fifty percent off all its merchandise because the lease on the Manhattan financial district office space was scheduled to run out at the end of next week. No ...
Publishing Soft Skull Sees the Future of Publishing in Business Week By Neal on Aug. 22, 2008 - 9:00 AM Last night, the Soft Skull Twitter feed directed readers to Business Week columnist Sarah Lacy‘s five-point plan to revitalize book publishing, which includes more effective use of social media and other technologies, along ...
Publishing How to Publish an Insta-Book Without Alienating Your Vendors By Neal on Aug. 22, 2008 - 8:01 AM Earlier this week, in a post outlining the beef between indie booksellers and Chelsea Green, reference was made to the electronic edition of George Soros‘s The New Paradigm of Financial Markets as an example of how a publish ...
Authors It Seems Some Woman Wrote a Novel About Muhammad’s Wife By Neal on Aug. 21, 2008 - 1:23 PM Since Michelle Boorstein is the religion correspondent for the Washington Post, and doesn’t usually cover the book beat, it’s understandable that today’s recap of the Jewel of Medina controversy doesn’t ref ...
Publishing A New Owner for PW by October? By Neal on Aug. 21, 2008 - 12:36 PM Morningstar took a peek at an internal memo from Reed Elsevier that says “the global board of Reed Business will give a management presentation to potential acquirers” in early September, which means that RBI—whi ...
Publishing Are You Pure Enough to Write YA? By Neal on Aug. 21, 2008 - 12:20 PM A few weeks back, Guardian blogger Sian Pettenden called attention to a morality clause in Random House‘s contracts for children’s book authors: According to an alert distributed by a UK-based support group for writers ...
Bookselling Some Open Questions for Independent Booksellers By Neal on Aug. 21, 2008 - 10:57 AM ⇒Would you still bear such strong resentment towards Chelsea Green if the independent publisher had chosen to distribute coupons for an e-book edition of Obama’s Challenge at the Democratic National Convention several ...
Reviews Emily Gould Is Offering You the Red Pill By Neal on Aug. 21, 2008 - 9:00 AM Former GalleyCat contributing editor Emily Gould has done more this summer than completing the essay collection she sold to Free Press. She’s also got a byline in the latest issue of Technology Review, discussing books about ...
Publishing Are Indie Booksellers (& Liberals) Martyring Chelsea Green? By Neal on Aug. 21, 2008 - 8:00 AM As news spread yesterday about the bookselling industry’s outrage at Chelsea Green, the independent publisher that decided to give Amazon.com a two-week window of exclusivity on Obama’s Challenge, its attempt to define ...
Revolving Door Atria Picks Up Durand As Senior Editor By Neal on Aug. 21, 2008 - 8:00 AM After a decade working her way up the editorial ladder at William Morrow, Sarah Durand is relocating to Simon & Schuster‘s Atria Books imprint after the Labor Day weekend, retaining her current title of senior editor. Du ...