Bookselling Book Stock Watch: Barnes & Noble Boost By Jason Boog on Oct. 30, 2009 - 5:23 PM In bookselling news, eWeek analyzed five ways Barnes & Noble (BKS) could beat Amazon.com (AMZN) at the e-reader business. Here’s a sample: “the right leveraging of its retail space could give Barnes & Noble a b ...
Videos Advice for Young Poets By Jason Boog on Oct. 30, 2009 - 3:23 PM “Think about the whole of things, as opposed to thinking about right now or about how much there is to eat at the moment or what the problem is necessarily today,” said poet Jericho Brown when asked to give advice to y ...
Reviews Mark Sanford Celebrates Ayn Rand By Jason Boog on Oct. 30, 2009 - 2:23 PM In the last week, literature met politics in two national publications–with some interesting results. After losing his own book deal, South Carolinia Governor Mark Sanford has turned to literary criticism–singing the p ...
Digital How to Find the Best Literary Twitter Chat By Jason Boog on Oct. 30, 2009 - 12:23 PM Every week editors, writers, readers, and publishers engage in sprawling literary discussions on Twitter. All the microbloggers in the audience should join their local Twitter chat. Highspot created a handy-dandy list of some popu ...
Book Biz Writing Contest: One Object, Six Words By Jason Boog on Oct. 30, 2009 - 10:23 AM How many words do you need to tell a story about an inanimate object? Smith magazine has teamed up with Significant Objects for an interesting contest–asking writers to compose a six-word story about that photograph. Here ar ...
Book Biz | Resources How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal By Jason Boog on Oct. 30, 2009 - 9:23 AM Too many writers have a great nonfiction book idea but don’t know how to pitch the book to an agent. A special one-day-only sale at mediabistro.com can help you write that pitch and meet an agent. Today (October 30) only, yo ...
Digital Fourth Story: Alternative Reality Soap Operas for Teen Readers By Neal on Oct. 30, 2009 - 9:01 AM (Fourth Story Media CEO Lisa Holton looks on as creative development and marketing manager Ariel Aberg-Riger browses the Amanda Project website.) “I was thinking more and more about how we publish books and how we reach our ...
Sponsored Content Self-Publishing Success Makes Big Publishing Splash By Neal on Oct. 30, 2009 - 9:00 AM Earlier this year, we told you about Notes Left Behind, a family’s self-published account of their daughter’s struggle with brain cancer, and the inspiration she continued to give them after her death, that achieved gr ...
Bookselling Some European Publishers Avoid Pricing Battles By Jason Boog on Oct. 30, 2009 - 8:23 AM As American stores battle to have the lowest price for new books, some European publishers are, for better or for worse, exempt from fighting these pricing squabbles. A few weeks ago, Walmart (WMT) slashed book prices online, redu ...
Authors AvantGuild: Memoir Isn’t Just Writing About Yourself By Neal on Oct. 30, 2009 - 8:00 AM Walter Kirn gives mediabistro.com members the inside story on expanding an essay he wrote for The Atlantic in Lost in the Meritocracy, a memoir of his “undereducation of an overachiever,” in the latest installment of t ...