Bookselling Barnes & Noble Fires Undocumented Workers By Jason Boog on Feb. 26, 2009 - 3:23 PM Immigration officials intervened at Barnes & Noble warehouse in Reno, Nevada today, as the bookseller released 50 workers that federal officials identified as undocumented immigrants. The firings came one week after the bookse ...
Digital Can Pirates Help Sell Books? By Jason Boog on Feb. 26, 2009 - 2:23 PM As the publishing industry tumbles headlong into the digital era, many fear that piracy could ruin the book business. However, some suggest that digital book piracy actually boosts sales. At the O’Reilly Tools of Change conf ...
Book Biz SNL’s Oral Historians Tackle ESPN By Neal on Feb. 26, 2009 - 11:38 AM Yesterday afternoon, Little, Brown announced that it had signed up Tom Shales and Jim Miller, the co-authors of Live From New York, a behind-the-scenes oral history of Saturday Night Live, for a new project currently known as The ...
Book Biz Self-Publishing 101 By Jason Boog on Feb. 26, 2009 - 11:23 AM This morning the Morning Media Menu podcast chatted with author, model, and self-promotion expert Isobella Jade. In 2006, this peppy author wrote her memoir on showroom computers at a Manhattan Apple Store. Her struggles ultimatel ...
Awards “Netherland” by Joseph O’Neill Wins PEN/Faulkner Award By Jason Boog on Feb. 26, 2009 - 10:23 AM The 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction went to Joseph O’Neill for his novel, “Netherland.” The three judges looked at nearly 350 novels and short story collections by American authors from 2008. Four finalists w ...
Reviews GalleyCat at the Festival of New French Writing By Jason Boog on Feb. 26, 2009 - 9:23 AM Just one day after visiting Sweden, GalleyCat will take a figurative journey to France–covering the Festival of New French Writing in New York City. Sponsored by the Center for French Civilization & Culture and New York ...
Events Former mediabistro.com Party Hostess Now a Guest of Honor By Neal on Feb. 26, 2009 - 8:00 AM About five years ago, Brooklyn native Ilana Stanger-Ross (left) was working as a journalist up in Toronto and hosting the occasional mediabistro.com cocktail party. (We even have some photos kicking around the archives of her wear ...
Book Biz AvantGuild: Professor, Bookseller, Kidlit Agent By Neal on Feb. 26, 2009 - 7:00 AM In the latest installment of mediabistro.com’s “Pitching an Agent,” we learn about Rosemary Stimola, a former lingustics professor who gave up academia to run a children’s bookstore and then, in 1997, launc ...
Authors Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Publish Two More Philip Roth Novels By Jason Boog on Feb. 25, 2009 - 4:23 PM Following recent shake-ups at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a celebrated author brought some good news for the publisher today. Philip Roth will publish his next two titles with the company. The 75-year-old novelist will release R ...
Digital First Gutted Glimpse Inside the Kindle 2 By Jason Boog on Feb. 25, 2009 - 2:23 PM After removing 16 screws, some nerdy readers opened up the Kindle 2–making some interesting discoveries about the future of the digital reading device. Above, you can see the fully-dissected machine, compliments of the brigh ...