Book Bix If The Kids Are United, YA Lit Can Never Be Divided By Neal on Oct. 2, 2008 - 8:00 AM Yesterday’s post about Dave Eggers‘s belief that the youth of America still love literature prompted YA author Lorie Ann Grover to send us an email about the passion for reading shared by the 6,000 members of the Reade ...
Book Bix An Arts Editor Responds to the Book Review Crisis By Jason Boog on Sep. 30, 2008 - 4:03 PM Earlier today GalleyCat reported on Creative Loafing Media’s bankruptcy news. The company owns Chicago Reader, Washington City Paper, and several more alternative weeklies–papers that provide arts coverage for countles ...
Book Bix Book Publishing Is SO Dying, Insists Reader! By Neal on Sep. 17, 2008 - 9:04 AM A reader who goes by the name “Egbert” had this comeback to yesterday’s criticisms of the latest “end of book publishing” hoopla: “…so, we should all not worry about the fate of Borders, o ...
Book Bix One Agent’s Tribute to David Foster Wallace By Neal on Sep. 16, 2008 - 9:00 AM Literary agent Chris Parris-Lamb of The Gernert Company wrote to GalleyCat yesterday with these thoughts concerning the death of David Foster Wallace: I’ve never been truly devastated by the loss of a public figure before, a ...
Book Bix Your Anonymous Complaints Are Tiresome (And Wrong) By Neal on Jul. 23, 2008 - 8:04 AM A quick follow-up to Andy’s item yesterday about whether or not Madonna’s brother is a flop artist, based on a (very familiar) bit of anonymous whinging that showed up in the tip box yesterday. Actually, I don’t ...
Book Bix Can We Make Publishing Better, Faster, Stronger? By Neal on Jul. 2, 2008 - 11:48 AM Yesterday, prompted by Jon Karp‘s WaPo article, I asked what it would take for the successful techniques of small independent publishers to be scaled up to Big Publishing. “It really wouldn’t be very hard,” ...
Book Bix BookExpo Mailbag: What’s the e-Book’s Market Function? By Neal on Jun. 9, 2008 - 8:00 AM “I found the interaction between two of your posts [last week] interesting,” writes Aaron Hierholzer of the Greenleaf Book Group. “The report on the Publishing 2.0 model panel and the Kindle‘s nonexistent p ...
Book Bix Is a New Generation Taking Over Big Publishing? By Neal on Jun. 5, 2008 - 11:31 AM “Did you notice that the new CEO at Random House [Markus Dohle] is 39, and Brian Murray is 41?” a reader emails this morning, upon the news that Murray’s replacing Jane Friedman at HarperCollins. “What happ ...
Book Bix S&S Drops In Super Secret Memoir By Ethan on Jun. 2, 2008 - 1:48 PM We just received a nice anon tip about a new secret “pop-culture memoir” to be published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment with an embargoed July 15, 2008 on sale date and 350 thousand copy first printing in hardcover. ...
Book Bix What Can Brown Do for You? Book Thievery Update By Ethan on May. 21, 2008 - 1:19 PM Stories of books gone missing are coming out of the woodwork and a common theme seems to be that whoever is doing the stealing, isn’t taking the time to make sure no incriminating evidence is left behind. Years ago, a friend ...