Adaptation The Best Literary Adaptations of 2009 By Jason Boog on Dec. 29, 2009 - 10:23 AM What was the best literary adaptation at movie theaters this year? Inside Movies made a list, but we imagine that GalleyCat readers have their own opinions. Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu was Melissa Lafsky, the edi ...
Digital Cellphone Novel Bookshelf By Jason Boog on Dec. 29, 2009 - 8:23 AM What will the bookshelf of the future look like? Perhaps like this photograph of an entire bookshelf of cellphone novels in printed form at a Japanese bookstore. Here’s more from the Kirai blog: “Novels written with ce ...
People Ring of Fire by P.D. Baccalario By Jeff Rivera on Dec. 29, 2009 - 7:30 AM Today’s Featured Book of the Day is Ring of Fire by P.D. Baccalario. Sometimes, it takes a child to solve the toughest mystery. In Ring of Fire, the first in the Century Quartet series, four kids find themselves in the midst ...
Digital What Constitutes an eBook Bestseller? By Jason Boog on Dec. 28, 2009 - 5:23 PM Today the literary Twitter-sphere debated a question GalleyCat raised this morning: if the majority of the top 100 “bestselling” Kindle books are free, how can publishers survive in a digital marketplace? By GalleyCat& ...
Book Biz Pick the Year’s Best Writing Music By Jason Boog on Dec. 28, 2009 - 4:23 PM After another rough-and-tumble year, only one thing kept this GalleyCat editor writing, day after day. Music. As the new year approaches, we like ask our readers: What music did you listen to while writing this year? Which songs, ...
Social Media Literary Twitter Census By Jason Boog on Dec. 28, 2009 - 2:23 PM Using highly unscientific methods (a simple TweepSearch to find all the people who included the word “poet,” “novelist,” or “writer” in their Twitter profile), GalleyCat has compiled a year-end ...
Digital Publishers Versus Device Makers By Jason Boog on Dec. 28, 2009 - 12:23 PM As the book publishing industry looks anxiously towards the transition to digital books with a low price point and free “bestsellers,” the magazine industry is also looking to e-readers for salvation. Over at FishbowlN ...
Book Biz The Year in Translated Literature By Jason Boog on Dec. 28, 2009 - 11:23 AM As the recession dragged on this year, translated fiction saw a small increase, but poetry translations decreased by nearly 14 percent compared to last year. Over at the excellent blog Three Percent, Open Letter Press director Cha ...
Publishing Strict Airline Rules and the Publishing Industry By Jason Boog on Dec. 28, 2009 - 10:23 AM Could new airline restrictions force travelers to buy more books? After a terrorist attack was foiled on an airplane on Friday, airlines introduced a confusing set of new guidelines for international flights. While these guideline ...
Digital 64 of the 100 Top Kindle Store Bestsellers Are Free By Jason Boog on Dec. 28, 2009 - 9:23 AM By GalleyCat’s count yesterday afternoon, 64 of the 100 eBooks currently topping the Kindle bestseller list were priced at $0.00. The number one bestseller was “Midnight in Madrid” by Noel Hynd, another free Kind ...