Book Biz GalleyCat Reports: Thursday at BEA By Jeff Rivera on May. 28, 2009 - 7:39 PM A surprisingly large amount of attendees roamed the BEA halls and conference rooms today. One of the big hits of today’s events was the Tina Brown moderated, “CEO Roundtable” which featured some of book publishin ...
Authors Pat Conroy Bows Out of BEA By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2009 - 5:23 PM Novelist Pat Conroy announced today that he will miss his two BEA appearances this year. According to Publishers Lunch, the author of “The Prince of Tides” recently had surgery and had to cancel. Publishers Weekly repo ...
Trends How to Catch a Book Pirate By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2009 - 2:23 PM Since fall 2008, Magellan Media has monitored pirated copies of O’Reilly Media titles circulating on illegal download sites–releasing some interesting results today at BookExpo America. GalleyCat caught up with William ...
Revolving Door Granta Editor Departs By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2009 - 12:43 PM The literary journal Granta announced that Editor Alex Clark has departed. American Editor John Freeman was appointed Acting Editor, assuming that post immediately, the Board of Granta Magazine announced today. Earlier this year, ...
Publishing The Federal Writers Project and Depression-Era Publishing By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2009 - 12:23 PM Looking back at publishing stats from the Great Depression is at once frightening and soothing–reminding spooked publishing types that the literary world has been here before, but it has survived. One GalleyCat editor wrote ...
Trends Piracy Study Results Released By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2009 - 11:23 AM At BEA today, a researcher analyzed results from a pioneering study about book piracy on the Internet. Since fall 2008, Brian O’Leary, a principal at Magellan Media, has monitored pirated copies of O’Reilly Media title ...
Book Biz Brad Meltzer Hatches a Plot with Freemasons By Neal on May. 28, 2009 - 10:42 AM Readers in the greater Washington, D.C., area with GPS devices may want to get themselves to N 39° 13.187 W 077° 04.941 this afternoon—that’s the first in a series of checkpoints in a treasure hunt that bests ...
Comic Books Judge Sonia Sotamayor’s Secret By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2009 - 9:23 AM While introducing his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotamayor, President Barack Obama pointed out the judge’s fondness for the Nancy Drew detective series. That’s a ringing endorsement from the U.S. president on t ...
Digital Stanza COO Neelan Choksi on the Last 150 Days in E-Books By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2009 - 8:23 AM In his second public presentation since Amazon.com, Inc. bought the iPhone reader company he helped create, Lexcycle‘s COO Neelan Choksi spoke to a room full of publishing types in Random House conference room yesterday. At ...
People Paula Chase Hyman By Jeff Rivera on May. 28, 2009 - 7:30 AM My YA Book of Color Pick of the Week is Flipping the Script (Kensington), which is a fun novel for teen girls written by Black American author, Paula Chase Hyman. Written in the vein of the successful Drama High Series for Black A ...