Events Lapham Looks Back By Neal on Oct. 21, 2005 - 10:59 AM What to do when two magazine editors have book parties on the same night? Reluctantly skipping the fête at Three Lives for Threepenny Review’s Wendy Lesser and The Pagoda in the Garden, I dropped in at the Accompanied L ...
Book Biz The Frankfurt Lowdown By Carmen on Oct. 21, 2005 - 10:00 AM So you can’t have a publishing industry blog without making more mention of the Frankfurt Book Fair. But as Michael Cader pointed out in Publishers Lunch Deluxe yesterday, the story of the fair mostly centers around various ...
Publishing Grand Dames of Chick Lit By Neal on Oct. 21, 2005 - 9:22 AM While Fishbowlers Rachel and Elizabeth were enjoying themselves in Williamsburg Wednesday night at John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book lecture, I ventured uptown to Marymount Manhattan College for what amounted to a panel summit ...
Digital The Brave New World of Google Print By Neal on Oct. 20, 2005 - 12:30 PM We asked for your thoughts on the AAP/Google Print lawsuit, and one agent sent us the following observations: “I find it troubling that Google scanned these library books without checking ahead of time with the copyright hol ...
Trends Upperbacks: now the Brits want them too By Carmen on Oct. 20, 2005 - 11:05 AM The new trend towards larger size paperbacks that’s slowly taking over mass-market outfits here in the US is spreading across the pond, according to an article in Reuters UK this week. The first publisher on board is Headlin ...
Comic Books Don’t Forget the Women Tied Up in Knots By Neal on Oct. 20, 2005 - 10:04 AM According to Japan’s Mainichi Daily News, American teens “can’t get enough” manga, “the racy comic books for elementary schoolgirls that have recently been filled with stories with such themes as homo ...
Publishing Frankfurt Bullet Points By Neal on Oct. 20, 2005 - 9:31 AM So what’s the big news out of Frankfurt this week? According to Reuters, it’s more sudoku books and downloadable audiobooks. For the Associated Press, it was a celebration of Korean literature, while Information World ...
Authors Now the massive reorganization makes a hell of a lot more sense By Carmen on Oct. 20, 2005 - 9:00 AM I can’t be the only one who wonders how on earth some publishing houses are able to dole out such gigantic advances. But in Bantam Dell’s case, considering they managed to elegantly can one longtime publicist and shuff ...
Book Biz The Seven Million Dollar Book By Neal on Oct. 20, 2005 - 8:54 AM So who’s behind this $7 million Warren Buffett book deal? The Editor: Irwyn Applebaum of Bantam Dell is no stranger to major deals. Last year he signed mystery writer Karin Slaughter away from Morrow with “high seven f ...
Digital Take That, Google Print! And That! By Neal on Oct. 19, 2005 - 4:33 PM So I asked science-fiction writer John Scalzi what he thought about the Association of American Publishers lawsuit against Google Print, and he wrote back, “Isn’t this basically a pile-on no different than the Author&# ...