Authors How to Handle a Book Embargo, Paris-Style By Neal on Sep. 7, 2005 - 9:45 AM In “an intense campaign of secrecy,” reports the Observer, French publisher Fayard only sent out 15 review copies of Michel Houellebecq’s new novel, La Possibilité d’Une Île, and those only to rev ...
Trends I Just Do It for the Free Books By Neal on Sep. 7, 2005 - 9:17 AM The Christian Science Monitor takes a close look at book blogs, “the new darlings of the publishing industry,” reassuring its readers that they “can be vibrant and sharply opinionated, full of odes to favorite au ...
Digital Audio Killed the Lit’rature Star By Neal on Sep. 7, 2005 - 9:01 AM As of yesterday, Holtzbrinck has begun podcasting samples from their audiobooks. The publishing conglomerate’s holdings run the gamut from St. Martin’s to FSG, and the MP3s are an equally mixed bag, as thriller writers ...
Book Biz My Intellectual Close Friends Get to Call Me G.C. By Neal on Sep. 7, 2005 - 8:41 AM Hi–I’m Ron Hogan, and I’ll be your guest blogger this week. If you’re familiar with my own site, Beatrice.com, I’ll be laying down posts pretty similar to what you’d find there, but if you’ ...
Sponsored Content A Not-Entirely-Rhetorical Question By Elizabeth on Sep. 6, 2005 - 11:54 AM A Not-Entirely-Rhetorical Question
Book Biz The Collected Letters of Dave Eggers (And Who Ostensibly Reps Them) By Elizabeth on Sep. 6, 2005 - 11:17 AM Dave Eggers' Book of Emails
Publishing And finally… By Carmen on Sep. 1, 2005 - 3:00 PM That’s it for me, folks. It was a fun week guest-blogging here, but now that Labor Day Weekend is upon us, I have sorrows to drown while most of the publishing and writing people I know drink up over here. But I leave you wi ...
Revolving Door Cunningham to DC Comics By Carmen on Sep. 1, 2005 - 2:58 PM The news from the transom is that John Cunningham, formerly the publisher of St. Martin’s Minotaur imprint, has left his position to assume duties as a vice-president of DC comics. Sally Richardson, current president and pub ...
Bookselling Katrina Bookstore casualties By Carmen on Sep. 1, 2005 - 2:41 PM From Publishers Weekly: Susan Daigre’s Bookends Bookstore in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and Pass Christian Books in Pass Christian, Miss., run by Scott Naugle and Richard Daley, were destroyed irrevocably in the storm. “Bot ...
Bookselling Indigo: using the metastatic approach By Carmen on Sep. 1, 2005 - 11:30 AM OK, slightly harsh, as when I used to live in Toronto there was a very nice Indigo down the street from my then-dwellings, but with today’s announcement that the superstore — which has swallowed up Chapters and looks t ...