Events Scene @ AgencySpy’s Adland Party By Neal on Sep. 29, 2009 - 8:00 AM mediabistro.com’s events team and AgencySpy got together last week to throw a party for James P. Othmer (center) last week celebrating the publication of Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet. Among t ...
Authors Celebrating William Safire’s Precision By Jason Boog on Sep. 28, 2009 - 4:23 PM As the literary world reflects on the legacy of William Safire, one LA Times reporter measured his work against the writing style of a 21st Century conservative icon–Glenn Beck. Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu ...
Editors Kate Duffy Has Died By Jason Boog on Sep. 28, 2009 - 2:23 PM Kate Duffy, the beloved Kensington Books editorial director, passed away today. Last year, Publishers Weekly recorded that video interview with the editor, a touching tribute to a life lived with books. Barnes & Noble Book Clu ...
Awards Annette Gordon-Reed Wins $25,000 History Prize By Jason Boog on Sep. 28, 2009 - 12:23 PM Author Annette Gordon-Reed has won the $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for 2009, an annual prize awarded by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition for “the bes ...
Revolving Door Mary C. Hickey to Edit Book Coverage at Ladies’ Home Journal By Jason Boog on Sep. 28, 2009 - 11:23 AM Author and journalist Mary C. Hickey is returning to Ladies’ Home Journal, filling a new editorial spot that includes curating book features at the magazine. Besides writing for a number of magazines, including People, More, ...
Book Biz French Publisher Sues Google Books for $22 Million By Jason Boog on Sep. 28, 2009 - 10:23 AM French publisher La Martiniere has joined the French Publishers’ Association and a French authors’ group in a 15 million euros ($22.09 million) lawsuit against Google for scanning books into the Google Books database. ...
Bookselling Barnes & Noble: We Don’t Extort Referral Links By Neal on Sep. 28, 2009 - 9:01 AM After last Friday’s item about allegations that Barnes & Noble was telling publishers to make sure authors’ websites link to BN.com (when they link to any online retailers) or risk not getting their books ordered f ...
Authors William Safire Has Died By Jason Boog on Sep. 28, 2009 - 8:23 AM Prolific author, columnist, and speechwriter William Safire passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer. His career began as a speechwriter for Richard Nixon, and he earned a Pulitzer Prize for his political commentary. Durin ...
Book Biz The Book Deal That Began Halfway Around the World By Neal on Sep. 28, 2009 - 8:04 AM Two weeks ago, Henry Holt announced that it had acquired the North American rights to The Good Psychologist, a debut novel by Ohio-based psychology professor Noam Shpancer (1), described as a literary version of the HBO series In ...
People Tell Me Something True by Leila Cobo By Jeff Rivera on Sep. 28, 2009 - 7:30 AM My Featured Book of Color, Pick of the Day book is Tell Me Something True (Grand Central Publishing) by Leila Cobo. The tale is divided between two voices: classical pianist Gabriella, the daughter, deals with the past, in the for ...