Authors Philip Jose Farmer Has Died By Jason Boog on Feb. 25, 2009 - 11:44 AM Science fiction pioneer Philip Jose Farmer “passed away peacefully in his sleep,” his website noted this morning. The 91-year-old author was best-known for his Riverworld series, a surreal collection of books about a w ...
Bookselling Richard Nash To Leave Soft Skull and Counterpoint By Jason Boog on Feb. 25, 2009 - 11:23 AM Richard Nash, the Editorial Director of Soft Skull Press and Executive Editor of Counterpoint, is set to depart the company on March 10, 2009. In the announcement, Counterpoint CEO and Publisher Charlie Winton reassured readers th ...
Events Book Party Like It’s Not 2009 By Jason Boog on Feb. 25, 2009 - 10:23 AM Last night a crowd of Wall Street types mingled comfortably with publishing types at the classy Yale Club in midtown Manhattan, celebrating the release of Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat’s new book, The Fat Tail: The Power of P ...
Digital Roy Blount Jr. Argues Against Kindle 2 Audio By Jason Boog on Feb. 25, 2009 - 9:23 AM In a forceful NY Times op-ed, Authors Guild president Roy Blount Jr. warned creative people to be “duly vigilant” about the Kindle 2’s new ability to create automatically generated computerized audio-books. He co ...
Events Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler By Neal on Feb. 25, 2009 - 8:00 AM Yesterday afternoon, the marketing managers for DK Publishing celebrated Mardi Gras—and the arrival of a new edition of their DK New Orleans travel guide—with a little in-house party, complete with masques and beads. T ...
Reviews Meet Sweden’s Biggest Book Bloggers By Jason Boog on Feb. 25, 2009 - 7:23 AM What’s happening in the world of Swedish publishing? To find out, GalleyCat caught up with the four founding members of Bokhora (Bookslut, in English), Sweden’s largest literary blog. The editors covered a number of ke ...
Awards Naomi Klein Wins £50,000 Warwick Prize By Jason Boog on Feb. 24, 2009 - 5:23 PM Naomi Klein has won the £50,000 Warwick Prize for Writing for her recent book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. This is the first year the prize has been offered, focusing on the theme of “complexit ...
Bookselling Scribner Memoir Picked by Starbucks By Jason Boog on Feb. 24, 2009 - 4:23 PM Today Starbucks chose Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies for its special book program. Published by Scribner, the book will be released March 24, 2009 and sold at more than 7,000 Starbucks around the countr ...
Revolving Door Assistant Editor Fired and Hired in 24 Hours By Jason Boog on Feb. 24, 2009 - 3:23 PM As the publishing world copes with massive recession restructuring, assistant editor Ben Steinberg has emerged with one of the strangest and oddly heartening stories–losing his job and getting rehired at another publisher in ...
Digital Chinese Premier Donates 200,000 Digital Books By Jason Boog on Feb. 24, 2009 - 2:23 PM Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (pictured, via Wikipedia) has donated 200,000 digital books the University of Cambridge’s library, building that university’s world-renown collection of Chinese monographs. At the same time a ...