Digital It’s LibraryThing; Would You Understand? By Neal on Jun. 27, 2006 - 8:12 AM WSJ reporter Aaron Rutkoff discovers LibraryThing.com, a website that’s like filesharing for your book collection…except that you can’t really share the actual books online, just the knowledge that you own them. ...
Authors More deaths for Potter VII By Carmen on Jun. 27, 2006 - 8:01 AM Truthfully, that J.K. Rowling‘s “reveal” of more deaths in the final installment of the Harry Potter series (as reported by Reuters) is more indicative of a slow news day than anything else, but she does at least ...
Publishing WHSmith deregulates By Carmen on Jun. 27, 2006 - 7:02 AM Reuters reports that WH Smith confirmed plans to Tuesday to split in two, saying existing shareholders would receive one share in a separately listed retail business and another in a news distribution business. The new name? The e ...
Publishing Univ Presses Face the Future in New Orleans By Neal on Jun. 27, 2006 - 7:00 AM It took me a while to work through the GalleyCat inbox to get to a recommendation for Jennifer Howard’s dispatch from the Association of American University Presses conference for the Chronicle of Higher Education, but IR ...
Publishing Slesinger to keep Winnie the Pooh rights By Carmen on Jun. 27, 2006 - 6:16 AM The US Supreme Court has handed down a decision about who has the right to license A.A. Milne’s beloved characters, which have become a cash cow for Disney, among others. Milne’s granddaughter, together with Disney, wa ...
Digital Nebraska Joins the UP Blog Lineup By Neal on Jun. 26, 2006 - 10:50 AM The University of Nebraska Press has started a blog, with staff members and other grad students posting short items and essays about Nebraska’s new releases and the historical/cultural issues they address. Actually, although ...
Digital Literati, Inspired by Vodka, Try Writing Sci-Fi By Neal on Jun. 26, 2006 - 9:28 AM Just before shutting down shop last Friday afternoon, I spotted a story on our sister blog, FishbowlNY, about a partnership between Nerve.com and the distributors of Svedka in which the vodka will become what the NYT describes as ...
Reviews NYTBR Still Fixated on Updike, Lesbians By Neal on Jun. 26, 2006 - 8:28 AM Timothy Leary may be gracing the cover of yesterday’s NYTBR, but the Review’s undying support of John Updike‘s legacy continues inside. One month after wedging him into the all-star lineup of late-20th century Am ...
Bookselling Another SF Store Closes—And That’s OK By Neal on Jun. 26, 2006 - 7:55 AM Paul Collins provides a sad update to last week’s item on Bay Area bookstore closings: Acorn Books is the latest San Francisco store to close down. An interview with owner Joel Chapman has a couple of anecdotes, including th ...
Publishing Tuesday Night Book Club, RIP By Neal on Jun. 23, 2006 - 10:25 AM Two episodes into its scheduled eight-week run, CBS has shut down the Tuesday Night Book Club. So we contacted Jennifer Weiner (right), the author of the club’s first selection, Good in Bed, to see how she felt about being o ...