Publishing The Regan Report: It’s Still All About Judith By Carmen on Dec. 21, 2006 - 9:08 AM Never did a photo scan – taken from page 2 and 3 of REGAN’s Winter 2007 catalog and brought to you courtesy of Nathan Whitlock – seem so apt. And prescience seemed to be on Judith Regan’s mind on yesterday& ...
Publishing Gawker Scoops NYT on Mezuza-Gate By Neal on Dec. 21, 2006 - 9:07 AM As the publishing world sorted through its giddy shock over the firing of Judith Regan Monday morning, and HarperCollins unveiled the position that they’d cut her loose for making anti-Semitic remarks to one of their corpora ...
Book Biz Enough with the Company Letterhead, Already! By Neal on Dec. 21, 2006 - 9:00 AM Wall Street Journal columnist Ron Lieber has a question for all you book publicists out there that had us nodding our heads the moment we opened the email: Lieber writes: Why, in late 2006, must reporters seeking review copies fax ...
Digital Hodgman’s Expertise Free for the Holidays By Neal on Dec. 21, 2006 - 8:33 AM Why is the iTunes Store currently offering the nearly 7-hour audiobook version of John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise for free? “It felt like the right and generous thing to do at this sparkly time of year,” ...
Reviews Blogger Challenges NYTBR on “Sloppy” Tag By Neal on Dec. 21, 2006 - 8:09 AM Remember yesterday, when I quoted Sam Tanenhaus on online writers, and he said they have “a tendency to write very quickly… and to write sloppily, often”? I didn’t take offense at that, because I felt he qu ...
Bookselling Children’s author demands Amazon UK removal By Carmen on Dec. 21, 2006 - 6:52 AM As independent bookshops close everywhere, one author has found his own way to strike back, even if we’re not sure it’s really going to work. The Guardian reports that George Walker, author of the self-published TALES ...
Bookselling Dutton’s Beverly Hills Closes Shop, Too By Carmen on Dec. 21, 2006 - 6:16 AM ‘Tis the season not just for layoffs and gloomy end-of-year reports but also of bookstore closings. PW Daily rounded up a good list of indies shutting their doors yesterday but now word comes by way of Michael Walker, author ...
Publishing Leading Jewish Newspaper Absolves Regan (sorta) By Neal on Dec. 20, 2006 - 3:35 PM As Forward arts editor Alana Newhouse writes, people have said a lot of things about Judith Regan over the years, but they’ve never called her an anti-Semite. “If a brief scan of Regan’s greatest hits is any indi ...
Awards Questions Over NBCC’s Field of Vision By Neal on Dec. 20, 2006 - 11:33 AM As a former National Book Critics Circle board member, Katharine Weber has also served as a chair of several awards committees. So when she saw an apparent change in the way books are put forward for consideration for these prizes ...
Digital Somebody’s Paying for Customer Reviews! By Neal on Dec. 20, 2006 - 10:51 AM Smart Bitches, Trashy Books spotted a shocking freelance job offer: Apparently there’s an unnamed publisher out there who’s openly willing to pay $5 or $10 for a good online bookstore review of their product. They don& ...