Bookselling Publishers Report Stable But Modest Growth for February By Neal on Apr. 25, 2008 - 11:12 AM Bookstores may have posted an 11.3 percent gain in sales for February, but the members of the Association of American Publishers are only reporting a 4.8 percent increase for the month. When you look at January and February togeth ...
Events Scene @ Overlook’s party for The Wentworths By Ethan on Apr. 24, 2008 - 2:10 PM Last night Peter Mayer, publisher of Overlook Press, opened up his Sohome to celebrate Katie Arnoldi’s Los Angeles Times bestselling novel, The Wentworths. While rubbing shoulders with publicist Jack Lamplough, I got to meet ...
Digital Geek Debate: Should German Wikipedia Be A Book? By Glynnis on Apr. 24, 2008 - 12:46 PM So Bertelsmann is publishing a book of the 25,000 most popular of the 750,000-plus entries German Wikipedia next fall, to be titled ‘The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia.’ Weird, right? After all, why churn out an pap ...
Authors The (Long-Awaited) Return of Jack O’Connell By Neal on Apr. 24, 2008 - 9:00 AM One of the first questions I had for Jack O’Connell when we sat down to lunch last week to talk about his new novel, The Resurrectionist: “Where the hell did you go?” I fell in love with his writing when I was a ...
Book Biz Of Course He Bought Books He Hasn’t Read! By Neal on Apr. 24, 2008 - 8:31 AM After yesterday’s NY Times story about the New York Public Library‘s official embrace of Stephen Schwarzman, the Wall Street tycoon who’s donating $100 million to the institution and getting the main building ren ...
Book Biz Starbucks Book Club Goes to the Dogs By Neal on Apr. 24, 2008 - 8:00 AM Remember The Art of Racing in the Rain, the million-dollar novel by Garth Stein that HarperCollins picked up last summer? Looks like they’ll make every penny back and then some: Starbucks is going to start selling the book i ...
Funny “Enough With the Cake Already” By Neal on Apr. 24, 2008 - 7:05 AM That’s the anonymous complaint we got late last night, anyway. Let it never be said we don’t listen to feedback…
Authors ‘I Was Told There’d Be Cake’ Continues To Climb The ‘Times’ Bestseller List By Glynnis on Apr. 23, 2008 - 4:34 PM Hey, have you heard anything about this Sloane Crosley book? Understandable if you haven’t — it’s not like it’s getting much hype. But that hasn’t stopped it from hitting #14 on the Times paperback no ...
Events The Cake At Sloane Crosley’s Book Party Was Sort Of Underwhelming By Glynnis on Apr. 23, 2008 - 4:15 PM Yes, the Rashomon-style coverage continues. This is how big of a deal bestselling ‘I Was Told There’d Be Cake’ author and “most popular” Vintage publicist Sloane Crosley is: there are contextual Googl ...
Events Let Them Eat Cake By Megan on Apr. 23, 2008 - 4:02 PM Gawker’s founding editor (and former editor-in-chief of mediabistro.com) Elizabeth Spiers threw a party for Sloane Crosley last night at Helmut Lang to congratulate her on the success of her book, I Was Told There Would Be C ...