Publishing Google and Authors Guild Agree on Extension By Jason Boog on Apr. 28, 2009 - 5:23 PM Federal judge Denny Chin signed off on a four-month extension in the Google and the Authors Guild settlement. According to Publishers Weekly, the legal deadline for writers to agree to the settlement or fight it in court used to b ...
Authors Honor Moore Combats “Male Approval Desire” By Jason Boog on Apr. 28, 2009 - 3:23 PM Last week, Honor Moore, editor of “Poems from the Women’s Movement,” hosted a poetry reading at Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan–bringing together generations of renowned poets to celebrate the relea ...
Trends The Price Is Right By Jason Boog on Apr. 28, 2009 - 2:23 PM This week historian Ben Wilson and Faber & Faber launched a literary experiment, releasing “What Price Liberty?” as a pay-what-you-like e-book. For the next six weeks, Wilson will offer the book on a website where ...
Authors Serpent’s Tail to Publish Hugo Chavez-Approved Bestseller By Jason Boog on Apr. 28, 2009 - 12:23 PM Inspired by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s sharing of “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent” with President Barack Obama, a UK publisher will rush out a new edition of Edu ...
Digital Is Amazon Preparing for Apple’s Next Move? By Jason Boog on Apr. 28, 2009 - 11:23 AM Why did Amazon.com, Inc. acquire the makers of the Stanza e-reader yesterday? Perhaps they saw the future over at at Apple Inc., a long-rumored “media pad” that could someday rival the Amazon Kindle. A recent Business ...
Bookselling 2010 Christian Book Expo Canceled By Jason Boog on Apr. 28, 2009 - 10:23 AM After a low turnout in this publishing recession, the Christian Book Expo was canceled for next year. According to Publishers Weekly, the sponsoring organization–the board of Evangelical Christian Publishers Association̵ ...
Book Biz The Future of Book Publishing By Jeff Rivera on Apr. 28, 2009 - 9:23 AM On Saturday, April 25, Beyond the Book‘s Chris Kenneally moderated the closing panel of the annual New York Round Table Writers Conference. The audience were treated to crystal ball readings and insights on technology, marke ...
Trends What Should Writers Blog About? By Jason Boog on Apr. 28, 2009 - 9:23 AM Aspiring authors around the country know they should be blogging and Twitter-ing, but many of them don’t know what to blog about. At the New York Round Table Writers’ Conference on Friday, a panel of professional web w ...
Book Biz FishbowlLA: Festival of Books By Neal on Apr. 28, 2009 - 8:00 AM We couldn’t make it to this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, but fortunately mediabistro.com has FishbowlLA: Editor Tina Dupuy went to several of the weekend’s staged events, including the “Publi ...
Digital Breaking: Amazon.com, Inc. Acquires Stanza Digital Reader App By Jason Boog on Apr. 27, 2009 - 5:23 PM In a shocking bit of late afternoon news, Amazon.com, Inc. has acquired Lexcycle, the company that created the iPhone reader, Stanza. The online bookseller now owns the two top Book related applications in the Apple App Store. Ear ...