View Post Bookselling Characters From Novel Turn Up In Amazon Reviews By Dianna Dilworth on Feb. 28, 2013 - 11:23 AM We’ve heard of sock puppet reviews, but what do you call it when characters from a novel review the book on Amazon? This has been happening for This Is Your Captain Speaking, a novel about an airplane crash in in the Hudson ...
View Post Book Biz Next Lemony Snicket Cover Revealed By Jason Boog on Feb. 28, 2013 - 10:42 AM Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has released the new cover for the next Lemony Snicket book. When Did You See Her Last? is coming on October 15th. This is the second book in the “All the Wrong Questions” series, ...
View Post Awards | Book Biz Audible & Center for Fiction Establish Christopher Doheny Award By Maryann Yin on Feb. 28, 2013 - 10:23 AM Audible and The Center for Fiction have established the Christopher Doheny Award, honoring the memory of an employee who died of cystic fibrosis. The winner will receive $10,000, publication and promotion of their book both in pr ...
View Post Bookselling Barnes & Noble Nook Revenues Down 26% By Jason Boog on Feb. 28, 2013 - 7:23 AM Barnes & Noble reported that Nook segment revenues totaled $316 million for the fiscal third quarter, sinking 26 percent compared to the same period last year. The company blamed “lower device unit volume” for the ...
View Post Awards StoryCorps Gets $1 Million MacArthur Award By Jason Boog on Feb. 28, 2013 - 6:23 AM StoryCorps has received a $1 million MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. They will use the funds “to build its reserve and upgrade its infrastructure.” Radio documentarian David Isay founded StoryC ...
View Post Resources Trusted Friend Is Top Book Discovery Tool By Jason Boog on Feb. 28, 2013 - 3:23 AM Goodreads recently asked 1,000 members of the social network publishing’s burning question: What convinced you to read the book? They revealed the results at the Tools of Change (TOC) conference (chart embedded above). Overw ...
View Post Book Biz | People | Publishing Cody Simpson Lands Book Deal with HarperCollins By Maryann Yin on Feb. 28, 2013 - 12:23 AM HarperCollins will publish the first official book by 16-year-old YouTube pop singer Cody Simpson, a book entitled Welcome to Paradise: My Journey. Above, we’ve embedded a copy of Simpson’s most popular video–v ...
View Post Book Biz | Comic Books Symbiosis Art Book Featured on Kickstarter By Maryann Yin on Feb. 27, 2013 - 4:23 PM Marvel and Image comics artist Steven Sanders hopes to raise $50,000 on Kickstarter for his art book, Symbiosis. Sanders plans to use the money to release the book in both eBook and hardcover format. The 100+ page book will cont ...
View Post Resources Writing Advice from Producer of The Tudors, History Channel’s Vikings By Mona Zhang on Feb. 27, 2013 - 12:39 PM “My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way,” says screenwriter and producer Michael Hirst. With a bunch of film credits under his belt, along with the award-winning series The ...
View Post Videos Al Roker: My First Big Break By Kevin Eck on Feb. 27, 2013 - 10:03 AM Al Roker, weather guy for NBC’s “Today” Show, can sum up the secret to his success in a sentence, “Don’t be a jerk!” Roker has his own show “Wake Up with Al” on The Weather Channel, ...