Publishing World Big Enough for Friedman & Miracle(Still Flat) By Neal on Mar. 29, 2006 - 8:11 AM Last fall, we told you about a lawsuit filed against Thomas Friedman and FSG by Ed Miracle, the artist who claimed the original dust jacket for Friedman’s The World Is Flat used his painting of Columbus’s ships falling ...
Awards Goodwin gets $50K Prize; Urrea gets the Kiriyama By Carmen on Mar. 29, 2006 - 8:08 AM The New-York Historical Society has named Doris Kearns Goodwin its newest history laureate and given her its first $50,000 prize for American history for her latest effort TEAM OF RIVALS. It’s certainly a much more positive ...
Authors Vladimir Putin: Fake Writer? By Neal on Mar. 29, 2006 - 12:34 AM Sure, it’s barely at the outskirts of our publishing news mandate, but when the president of Russia gets caught plagiarising on his master’s thesis, I can’t help but bring it up. According to Brooking Institution ...
Book Biz Pontificating on publishing By Carmen on Mar. 28, 2006 - 3:48 PM Tomorrow evening at 7 PM, this particular Galleycat will be joining Jonathan Karp (of Warner Twelve, or whatever the new name shall be) Akashic’s Johnny Temple and able moderator and CJR Daily Editor Bryan Keefer at Makor to ...
Trends What’s the sound of 5 million books dropping? By Carmen on Mar. 28, 2006 - 9:37 AM That would be the launch of the paperback edition of a tiny, not-so-successful book called THE DA VINCI CODE, natch. But no matter what you might think of the content or premise, it’s awfully hard to argue with success on th ...
Publishing The most powerful woman in UK publishing By Carmen on Mar. 28, 2006 - 9:05 AM The Scotsman profiles the woman who can unite Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson in all their feuding glory, change the face of the book industry and affect which ones get sold. Who is it? Amanda Ross, of course, the booker for the ...
Book Biz Licking the Hand That Feeds Them By Neal on Mar. 28, 2006 - 9:00 AM Those of you who were reading Beatrice before I became a GalleyCat know my feelings about Page Six and HarperCollins: “Where others might see a conflict of interest, they see powerful synergy.” They’re at it agai ...
Authors Journalist Turns Balladeer By Neal on Mar. 28, 2006 - 8:59 AM One of the many writers I kept running into in Charlottesville last weekend was Julian Rubinstein (right), who’s apparently been making the rounds on the book festival circuit with his acoustic guitar, singing “The Bal ...
Comic Books Marvel Brings Out Its Dead By Neal on Mar. 28, 2006 - 8:58 AM Now that I’ve had a chance to catch up with the local papers after being away in Virginia all weekend, I’ve seen that Sunday Styles piece on zombie chic a few readers wanted me (and the Gawker gang)to look at…and ...
Comic Books Indie Comics Love in Prime Time By Neal on Mar. 28, 2006 - 8:57 AM Another thing I got to do after coming home was watch the TiVo’ed version of Sunday’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which included a shoutout to Love & Rockets, the independently published comic from Jaime and ...