Publishing Vanity Press Invokes Bowker’s Name in Vain? By Neal on Oct. 25, 2006 - 9:00 AM Over at mbToolbox, Claire Zulkey passes along a warning about a predatory book company offering their promotional services to self-publishers by way of a new book club “tapping into the multi-billion dollar consumer market.& ...
Trends From Politics to the Page By Carmen on Oct. 25, 2006 - 8:39 AM Hillel Italie‘s AP piece uses Barack Obama‘s new bestseller THE AUDACITY OF HOPE as a jumping off point about political memoirs & biographies in general – and how most of them become obsolete as soon as the t ...
Authors Richard Ford: still a Jersey Boy after all these years By Carmen on Oct. 25, 2006 - 8:16 AM With the publication of THE LAY OF THE LAND, the final installment in the Frank Bascombe trilogy, Richard Ford is certainly doing the publicity rounds. But the NYT’s Charles McGrath gets there first with a setting-themed pro ...
Publishing KGB’s Nonfiction Series Gets Religion By Neal on Oct. 25, 2006 - 7:53 AM Lauren Sandler and J. C. Hallman field questions from the audience at KGB’s Tuesday night nonfiction reading series. Sandler had just read a section of her new book, Righteous, about her encounter with a group of evangelical ...
Bookselling Mother-daughter booksellers hit television jackpot By Carmen on Oct. 25, 2006 - 7:03 AM This is one week this particular family will remember for all their days. First we have Margaret Osondu, owner of Osondu Booksellers in Waynesville, N.C. She’s been campaigning for months to get Oprah Winfrey to visit her to ...
Book Biz Changes & Growing Pains for ICM By Carmen on Oct. 25, 2006 - 6:11 AM Though the Wall Street Journal’s article on International Creative Management, one of the oldest surviving talent agencies, focuses mostly on their film and television properties, it is worth noting that when private-equity ...
Reviews Former Book Columnist Joins Bloggers By Neal on Oct. 24, 2006 - 11:29 AM Speaking as the former ArtsJournal book guy (until I took this gig), I’m delighted to see former Dallas Morning News book critic Jerome Weeks has launched a new blog for the cultural commentary site called book/daddy. Speaki ...
Bookselling Small Presses Wow ‘Em in Catskills By Neal on Oct. 24, 2006 - 11:12 AM A reader passed on an article from the Hudson Vally’s Times Herald-Record about the popularity of history books about the Catskills, where we learn that “Newburgh’s Barnes & Noble sports more than 100 local h ...
Publishing A most unlikely publishing event By Carmen on Oct. 24, 2006 - 10:01 AM Take a legendary rockstar, add a longtime BBC presenter and a fresh face who just got his doctorate in astronomy. What do you get? The launch of BANG! THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, written by Brian May, Sir Patrick Moore & ...
Digital Penguin gets in on Virtual Reality Craze By Carmen on Oct. 24, 2006 - 9:12 AM Now this is one of the more interesting marketing developments I’ve seen in quite some time. As the popularity of the Virtual Reality social networking site Second Life – where you can do pretty much anything you do in ...