Digital New Review Site By Ethan on Aug. 11, 2008 - 3:30 PM As the number of printed book review pages dwindle, its good to see the web taking up the slack. Enter LitMob.com, a niche site that will only review those books that they feel their readers will enjoy – books for the more & ...
Publishing Report from PEN’s Silenced Writers Event By Ethan on Aug. 11, 2008 - 1:40 PM Jessica Rotondi from St. Martin’s Minotaur Publicity department was volunteering at the PEN event for Silenced Writers and offers this report of what happened Thursday evening, complementing our earlier report from Amanda Re ...
Publishing Looking for a New Job? By Ethan on Aug. 11, 2008 - 1:28 PM Penguin Group USA is looking for a new Director of Online Marketing, take a look at the full description on the mediabistro.com job board here. We all know in the publishing world that online marketing is all the rage, what with t ...
Editors Job Post of the Week- I’m going to Disney By Ethan on Jul. 30, 2008 - 11:49 AM I’ve known two types of people who move to NYC and get into publishing. Those that stay and those that go back to California in a year or so. Well, for those of you who want to stay in publishing but miss LA, here’s a ...
Digital Wasserman on Internet Book Coverage By Ethan on Jul. 30, 2008 - 10:11 AM The Book Publicity Blog pointed me toward a great interview with former L.A. Times Book Review editor, Steve Wasserman on Monday’s NewsHour segment about the demise of print book reviews. Now that there are only four papers ...
Resources The Blame Game Followup By Ethan on Jul. 30, 2008 - 9:41 AM 286 of you voted in our poll about who is to blame for poor book sales with 41% voting that everyone was to blame and 25% agreeing that the publisher has too many titles on their list. The poll has sparked some interesting convers ...
Publishing The Blame Game By Ethan on Jul. 25, 2008 - 2:29 PM When a book doesn’t sell, who is really to blame? An anonymous writer says: I work as an editor at a major house and I saw the posting about the Madonna book and its sales. At our house we have a policy called, Don’t A ...
Authors Will Bugliosi Help Impeach Bush? By Ethan on Jul. 25, 2008 - 1:24 PM Vincent Bugliosi, author of the bestselling book The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Murder (Vanguard Press)is appearing today before the House Committee on the Judiciary’s Hearing – “The Imperial Presidency of ...
Bookselling Buying Books Blind By Ethan on Jul. 22, 2008 - 2:13 PM Slate had an interesting article the other day about the practice of publishers selling books into booksellers blind. Christopher Ciccone’s new celebrity tell-all, Life With My Sister Madonna, hit store shelves on Tuesday. N ...
Awards And the Winner Is: Matt Bell By Ethan on Jul. 22, 2008 - 11:21 AM The voting for the fifth annual StorySouth 2008 Million Writers Award is now over and the winning story is “Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken” by Matt Bell (originally published in Storyglossia). Matt wins the overa ...