Publishing Scene @ Redemption Song Reading By Neal on Jun. 26, 2007 - 7:00 AM Back on June 11, former New Music Express features writer Chris Salewicz (right) held a reading for Redemption Song, his biography of Clash frontman Joe Strummer, at the East Village’s Niagara, which has a mural of Strummer ...
Book Biz We Want Your Tips By Noah Davis on Jun. 26, 2007 - 6:57 AM Chances are, at some point in your publishing career, you’re going to find yourself with the inside scoop on a great story. Maybe you’ve seen the hype-deflating Bookscan numbers on some hotter-than-hot book, or youR ...
Bookselling NEA Announces Cycle 2 Big Read Grants to 117 Communities By Carmen on Jun. 26, 2007 - 6:44 AM NEA Announces Cycle 2 Big Read Grants to 117 Communities
Publishing HMV in Talks with Virgin About Megastore Acquisition By Carmen on Jun. 26, 2007 - 6:08 AM HMV in Talks with Virgin About Megastore Acquisition
Book Biz Upping the Stakes for Tomorrow’s Book Party By Neal on Jun. 25, 2007 - 12:21 PM Still haven’t decided whether you’re going to come to tomorrow night’s book swap party? Maybe we can provide a little extra incentive: I’m bringing a signed copy of The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane, my il ...
Authors But What If “JT Leroy” Wasn’t a Fraud? By Neal on Jun. 25, 2007 - 11:50 AM You may have seen this morning’s item about the judgment against “JT Leroy“, as Laura Albert was ordered by a jury to pay $116,500 to the production company that bought the rights to her novel, Sarah. But here ...
Book Biz Who’ll Adopt the Next Marley & Me? By Neal on Jun. 25, 2007 - 11:33 AM Sources tell us that no sooner had Folio started sending out The Art of Racing in the Rain, the third novel from Garth Stein (left), than three houses sent in immediate offers, with six figures already being tossed around in rejec ...
Book Biz Scene @ MoCCA Art Festival By Neal on Jun. 25, 2007 - 10:28 AM Dr. Sketchy’s proprietress Molly Crabapple was one of several indie comic book artists and illustrators with a booth at the yearly art festival for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. While I was walking around taking pictu ...
Bookselling Indie Tries to Sell Out Small Press Print Run By Carmen on Jun. 25, 2007 - 10:07 AM Indie Tries to Sell Out Small Press Print Run
Trends AP Stumbles Onto This Whole Secret Phenomenon By Neal on Jun. 25, 2007 - 9:09 AM The most noticeable aspect of the pair of stories that Associated Press Chicago correspondent Tara Burghart filed last weekend about The Secret, the bestselling guide to “the law of attraction” and the power of positiv ...