Digital Disney’s Digital Book Push By Jason Boog on Sep. 29, 2009 - 4:23 PM The Walt Disney Company (DIS) pushed into the digital book market today, hoping to corner the first generation of digital book-savvy kids with a new distribution model: selling $79.95 annual subscriptions to readers, providing onl ...
Book Biz Talking About Things Women Don’t Talk About By Jason Boog on Sep. 29, 2009 - 3:23 PM An author will take center stage at the 11th Annual Fordham Women in Business Conference on Friday, October 2. The evening’s keynote speaker is Mary Lou Quinlan founder of Just Ask a Woman and author of the upcoming book ...
People GalleyCat Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month By Jeff Rivera on Sep. 29, 2009 - 3:18 PM In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, GalleyCat will profile significant and emerging Hispanics in book publishing until October 15th. We will be raising important questions about the Hispanic market, some which even push the ...
Authors Sarah Palin Finishes Her Memoir in Four Months By Jason Boog on Sep. 29, 2009 - 2:23 PM The industrious author Sarah Palin has written her memoir in four months flat, and readers can look for the hardcover in mid-November. According to the AP, the book is entitled “Going Rogue: An American Life,” and the ...
Digital Sony and Smashwords Form Distribution Partnership By Jason Boog on Sep. 29, 2009 - 11:23 AM The self-publishing eBook website Smashwords inked a distribution deal with Sony Electronics, allowing readers to sell books in the Sony eBook Store days after uploading a Microsoft Word copy of their manuscript. Here’s more ...
Awards 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Winners Honored By Neal on Sep. 29, 2009 - 11:07 AM Last week, at a private reception in New York City, the Rona Jaffe Foundation honored six emerging women authors in the fifteenth annual presentation of its Writers’ Awards. Some of this year’s winners have been publis ...
Libraries Mapping Banned Books in the U.S. By Jason Boog on Sep. 29, 2009 - 10:23 AM This week is Banned Books Week, an annual reminder of the hundreds of books that face censorship every year. As that interactive map shows, book banning is a problem all over the United States. If you want to find out which books ...
Digital The Daily Beast to Publish Rapid-Fire eBooks By Jason Boog on Sep. 29, 2009 - 9:23 AM The Daily Beast announced a partnership with Perseus Books Group yesterday, a new Beast Books imprint that will quickly produce digital books by the website’s authors–followed by equally rapid paperback editions. The N ...
Book Biz Charles Dickens Fights for Copyright in the Wild West By Neal on Sep. 29, 2009 - 8:01 AM Yesterday, at The eBook Test, Mike Cane reminded us that Charles Dickens was an outspoken advocate for writers’ intellectual property rights, and that he took his crusade to the United States, where pirated editions of his n ...
Book Biz Southern Bookselling’s Jewell, Back in Place By Neal on Sep. 29, 2009 - 8:01 AM Wanda Jewell (center) caught up with her brothers, Steve and Wayne, at last weekend’s annual trade show for the Southeast Independent Booksellers Alliance in Greenville, South Carolina. According to Julie Schoerke, an indepe ...