Bookselling Amazon.com, Inc. Rumors By Jason Boog on May. 29, 2009 - 5:23 PM Is Amazon.com, Inc. looking to build? According to TheStreet.com, the bookseller won’t comment on financial blogger rumors about a mysterious filing: “The online retailer received a patent earlier this week for a mini- ...
Trends Inside the Blogger’s Studio By Jason Boog on May. 29, 2009 - 4:23 PM More than 40 bloggers registered for the first ever blogger signing session at BookExpo America–including two GalleyCat editors. In this video, GalleyCat senior editor Ron Hogan chats with author Isobella Jade. At BEA booth ...
Book Biz James Patterson Sets World Record By Jason Boog on May. 29, 2009 - 3:23 PM With 31 hardcover novels reaching number one and 45 total books on the list, author James Patterson has earned the Guinness World Record for the “Most Entries on The New York Times Best-Seller List.” Guinness will best ...
Authors BEA Writing Advice from Richard Russo and John Irving By Jason Boog on May. 29, 2009 - 2:23 PM A massive crowd gathered around a BEA stage this morning for a headline event that featured novelists John Irving and Richard Russo in conversation with journalist Charles McGrath. GalleyCat covered the panel, following a reader r ...
Sponsored Content Iggy Pop’s Literary Album By Jason Boog on May. 29, 2009 - 11:23 AM Rock star Iggy Pop’s new album was directly inspired by Michel Houellebecq’s novel, “The Possibility of an Island.” The former lead singer of The Stooges released “Preliminaires” this week, a ja ...
Events Party Like It’s 1975 By Jason Boog on May. 29, 2009 - 10:23 AM BEA week is like a business convention, county fair, prom, and class reunion all rolled into one for the publishing world. Like a business journalist, high school reporter, small town newspaper, and nerdy kid from high school all ...
Authors Haruki Murakami’s New Book More Than 1,000 Pages By Jason Boog on May. 29, 2009 - 9:23 AM The literary bloggers at The Millions report that the Japanese version of Haruki Murakami’s new novel will be a whopping 1,055 pages and published in two volumes. As the release date for the Japanese novelist’s new boo ...
Publishing Tina Brown Bashes $9.99 Digital Books By Jason Boog on May. 29, 2009 - 8:23 AM Daily Beast founder Tina Brown and her husband Sir Harold Evans held a stuffy, packed BEA amphitheater in rapt attention yesterday–quizzing four CEOs about these difficult days for publishing. When Brown lost her voice halfw ...
Comic Books From BEA: Stitches – A Memoir by David Small By Jeff Rivera on May. 29, 2009 - 8:04 AM One word. Phenomenal. I didn’t really expect to like this book for a number of reasons. First of all, the cover: plain, some would say boring at first glance, until you read this brilliant graphic novel, Stitches (W.W. Norto ...
Digital GalleyCat Exclusive: $199 EBook Reader By Jeff Rivera on May. 28, 2009 - 8:22 PM BE Book gave GalleyCat and TeleRead an exclusive first look at their $199 Mini Ebook Reader by BE Book which BE Book CEO, Johan Hagenbeuk said will be “available for purchase by June 30, 2009.” Hagenbeuk stated that Ga ...