Publishing She’s really a secret agent when ghostwriters are her clients By Carmen on May. 30, 2006 - 10:11 AM A lot of those bestsellers you see on various lists aren’t actually written by the authors whose names adorn the front covers. That’s hardly a surprise; ghostwriting is a crucial, if seldom discussed, component of the ...
Digital Slam Poetry for the Cyber-crowd? By Neal on May. 30, 2006 - 9:42 AM Dinitia Smith files a story for the NYT arts section on poets playing about on the Internet—specifically on a site called QuickMuse, where versifiers square off to write simultaneous works in 15 minutes or less. It’s h ...
Comic Books Books, Funny Books: ‘Net Devours All By Neal on May. 30, 2006 - 9:18 AM LA Times reporter Michelle Kellerinvestigates the online comics-swapping suubculture, where it’s said that some fans are scanning their favorite comics page by page, putting them on peer-to-peer networks, and letting other f ...
Publishing The nitty gritty of publishing co-op By Carmen on May. 30, 2006 - 8:39 AM One of the not-so-kept secrets of the industry is that those books you see on the tables at Barnes & Noble or Borders (or in the UK, Waterstone’s, Ottakar’s and Borders)? The publisher paid for placement. And in a ...
Publishing M&S further in bed with Random House By Carmen on May. 30, 2006 - 7:30 AM McLelland and Stewart is synonymous with all things CanLit – publishing Margaret Atwood and Farley Mowat, to name a couple of venerated Canadian writers – but ever since Random House bought a 25% stake in the company ( ...
Publishing On both sides of the publishing fence By Carmen on May. 30, 2006 - 7:07 AM Michael Fishwick gets a double dose of profiling by the Financial Times and the Independent, both of whom are fascinated with the idea that a publisher – he works at Bloomsbury after a long stint with HarperCollins – c ...
Publishing The indies of Brooklyn By Carmen on May. 30, 2006 - 6:34 AM Over at the Village Voice, Jessica Winter analyzes the successes, great and small, of some notable independent publishers – namely Akashic Books, Soft Skull Press and Archipelago, which offer alternatives to the big houses t ...
Digital Book Clubs Conducted in IM: In the Future! By Neal on May. 29, 2006 - 9:04 AM Library Journal interviews Ben Vershbow of The Institute for the Future of the Book about the ways that moving online will transform the relationship that books have to their readers and to each others. “Books will literally ...
Comic Books Brave & Bold? Nah, Just a Great Leap Forward By Neal on May. 29, 2006 - 8:06 AM The DC Comics publicity team has been on a great roll in recent months, landing several stories in the NYT arts section for big events like last year’s Infinite Crisis launch as well as quirky subjects like the alternative a ...
Comic Books Alex Toth, 1928-2006 By Neal on May. 28, 2006 - 7:06 AM The comics community was saddened over the weekend to hear about the death of Alex Toth, accurately described by my colleague Heidi McDonald as “one of the most influential and amazing American cartoonists ever.” Toth ...