Authors J. D. Salinger Has Died By Jason Boog on Jan. 28, 2010 - 1:23 PM The reclusive, brilliant author J.D. Salinger has died. Salinger will be immortalized for creating the character Holden Caulfield in his 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye. He also wrote the collection Nine Stories and Franny and ...
Awards Edith Grossman Wins Inaugural $10,000 Translation Prize By Jason Boog on Jan. 28, 2010 - 1:23 PM The reading committee of the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize announced that translator Edith Grossman has won the first $10,000 award for her translation of Antonio Munoz Molinas novel, “A Manuscript of Ashes ...
Digital As the Digital Book World Turns By Jason Boog on Jan. 28, 2010 - 11:23 AM Did you miss the Digital Book World conference this week? Never fear–the site rounded up articles from around the web. GalleyCat and eBookNewser covered the event as well… eBookNewser looked at one company’s six ...
Revolving Door Job Detective: Penguin Publicist By Jason Boog on Jan. 28, 2010 - 9:23 AM While the world obsessed about the iPad this morning, GalleyCat investigated publishing work on the mediabistro.com job boards. Here are four new jobs for your resume-making pleasure. First up, Macmillan Audio is looking for a Dig ...
Authors Author Howard Zinn Has Died By Jason Boog on Jan. 28, 2010 - 8:23 AM Author and scholar Howard Zinn passed away yesterday, leaving behind a virtual library of political criticism and history work. Zinn (pictured, via) earned his history Ph.D. at Columbia University and advised the Student Nonviolen ...
Reviews Reviewing Novel Reviews: Bright Lights, Big Review By Jason Boog on Jan. 27, 2010 - 6:23 PM As we continue our first week here at GalleyCat Reviews, here are a few notable book reviews from around the Internet. Literary Celebrity Book Review of the Week: Bright Lights, Big City novelist Jay McInerney reviews a new book b ...
Bookselling Dispatch from the Apple iPad Release Event By Jason Boog on Jan. 27, 2010 - 5:23 PM As the Apple iPad announcement unfolded in California, GalleyCat had a special correspondent inside the media circus: Wiley publicist and tireless reporter Cynthia Shannon. Shannon described the event: “While we were waiting ...
Bookselling How Publishers Will Cope with Amazon’s Monopoly By Jason Boog on Jan. 27, 2010 - 4:23 PM At Digital Book World this morning, Mike Shatzkin quizzed his panel of publishing thinkers about the Amazon (AMZN) hold over the industry. “Amazon has 80 or 90 percent of the book buying [market] online and 80 or 90 percent ...
Bookselling Publishing Experts on the Apple iPad By Jason Boog on Jan. 27, 2010 - 4:23 PM On this eventful day for publishing, GalleyCat prowled the halls of Digital Book World, interviewing literary minds and eBook pioneers about Apple’s latest creation. Today Apple (AAPL) unveiled a tablet computer called the i ...
Digital Publishers Meet the BLIO eReader By Jason Boog on Jan. 27, 2010 - 3:23 PM GalleyCat read reports about the BLIO eReader during the CES conference, but at Digital Book World, we saw the eBook software platform conceived by futurist Ray Kurtzweil in action. Three books were demonstrated. First was childre ...