Book Bix An Arts Editor Responds to the Book Review Crisis By Jason Boog on Sep. 30, 2008 - 4:03 PM Earlier today GalleyCat reported on Creative Loafing Media’s bankruptcy news. The company owns Chicago Reader, Washington City Paper, and several more alternative weeklies–papers that provide arts coverage for countles ...
Funny Soothing Spine Novels By Jason Boog on Sep. 30, 2008 - 3:23 PM Everybody is so gloomy these days. We need a good literary meme to cheer us up. Earlier today, Fimoculous reminded us of the cheery art of spine novels–an easy way to reorganize your bookshelf and do some writing at the same ...
Bookselling Life in the Book Review Vacuum By Jason Boog on Sep. 30, 2008 - 2:11 PM Today, two more print outlets for traditional literary coverage tumbled into yawning maw of the bad economy monster. Creative Loafing–the parent company of a host of alternative weeklies, including Chicago Reader and Washing ...
Publishing GalleyCat Hits the Lecture Circuit By Neal on Sep. 30, 2008 - 12:54 PM Last week, I was invited to take part in a Direct Marketing Association Advertisting Week panel with Zinio chief marketing officer Jeanniey Mullen and AdWeek columnist Barbara Lippert (plus, not pictured, Marketingworks Charles Sa ...
Book Biz The Bookshelf of Burned Love By Jason Boog on Sep. 30, 2008 - 12:03 PM As we enter the second day of our deal-breaking book contest, we’ve learned a lot about our readership. Mainly that most of us need literary relationship counselors. Readers from all over the United States have answered this ...
Publishing Two New Imprints Spring Up in the Midwest By Neal on Sep. 30, 2008 - 11:08 AM New York may be ready to declare book publishing dead, but there’s a lot more optimism in the heartland, from whence announcements have come our way of two brand new imprints from established publishing houses. In Traverse C ...
Book Biz Guest Essay: Samantha Ettus on Turning a “No” into a “Yes” By Ethan on Sep. 30, 2008 - 10:00 AM Expert Ease? By Samantha Ettus After publishing four books I have now persuaded 400 of the world’s leading experts to write chapters in my series, on every topic from weight loss to vexilology (the study of flags). Each is a ...
Publishing When Does Your Literary Novel Become a Success? By Neal on Sep. 30, 2008 - 9:00 AM Over at the Editorial Ass blog, the pseudonymous Moonrat takes a question from a reader about how many copies a work of literary fiction needs to sell before it’s considered a success, and the answer’s simple: 7,000 in ...
Trends Reading Banned Books, and Cooking With Them, Too By Neal on Sep. 30, 2008 - 8:04 AM Judy Blume was one of the many authors who went to Chicago last Saturday for the Banned Books Week Read-Out, an event co-sponsored by the American Library Association and the Chicago Tribune, including several whose books are amon ...
Book Biz SIBA BBQ Brings New England, Southern Publishers Together By Neal on Sep. 30, 2008 - 8:00 AM The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance held their annual trade show in Mobile, Alabama over the weekend, and Nashville-based Turner Publishing teamed up with Vermont’s Chelsea Green for a “Fire and Brimstone Bar ...