Publishing A Pyrokleptomaniac W/a Compulsion to Steal Fire By Neal on Nov. 22, 2005 - 8:43 AM “Let’s say it’s 9:30 a.m. You’ve been awake for two hours, and a hundred things have already gone right for you. If three of those hundred things had not gone right—your toaster was broken, the hot wa ...
Book Biz Speaking of Fun… By Neal on Nov. 22, 2005 - 8:23 AM OK, maybe the Flash movie for The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun goes on a bit long, and you’ll pretty much be tired of “The Blue Danube” by the time you get to #8. It’s still a, well, fun promo for w ...
Book Biz Poor David Kuhn By Carmen on Nov. 21, 2005 - 2:44 PM So it amused me greatly to see this item about David Kuhn’s supposed morning meet with David Lat, the prosecutor who blogged as a female corporate lawyer and outed himself in the New Yorker last week. Because sure, Kate Lee ...
Digital It’s Google Week at the Times! By Neal on Nov. 21, 2005 - 12:42 PM Yesterday, the NYT business section devoted two separate stories to Google: Randall Stross talked about the pioneering of graphics-less ads while Roger Lowenstein reviewed David A. Vise and Mark Malseed’s The Google Story, c ...
Publishing Random House gets jiggy with digital By Carmen on Nov. 21, 2005 - 8:52 AM Business Week writes up the publishing behemoth and its efforts to counter that evil demon Google and figure out how to entice people who don’t, um, read books: Book publishers might be expected to be nostalgic and lament th ...
Awards NYT Overlooks Mailer’s Slap By Neal on Nov. 21, 2005 - 8:50 AM An eagle-eyed and sharp-eared reader wrote to us about the NYT coverage of the National Book Awards, particularly Norman Mailer’s speech: “‘The serious novel may be in serious decline,’ he said, asking rhet ...
Book Bix It’s Time for Reader Mail By Neal on Nov. 21, 2005 - 8:49 AM I decided it would be fun to occasionally dip into the mailbag and share some of the feedback we’ve been getting about the new Galleycat. For example, an anonymous reader writes in concerning Friday’s report from the N ...
Comic Books “Third Age” of Comics Publishing Begins? By Neal on Nov. 21, 2005 - 8:42 AM When I mentioned last Friday morning that DC was reinventing its mainstream comics, I didn’t realize how soon fresh evidence would come in. In her excellent comics industry blog The Beat, Heidi MacDonald highlighted a report ...
Comic Books And Again With the Comic Books… By Neal on Nov. 21, 2005 - 8:41 AM If you didn’t care for last month’s griping over critical adulation for Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’s graphic novel Watchmen, you might want to just skip ahead to the next item… because now Dave Itzkoff&# ...
Publishing Google, Publishing Reps Trade Rhetorical Blows By Neal on Nov. 18, 2005 - 11:54 AM The more I think about it, with all the pending litigation, it’s pretty amazing that last night’s New York Public Library debate between Google and the authors and publishers groups was able to take place at all. But i ...