Book Biz BookExpo eSwag Preview: Get Gladwell’s Newest in PDF By Neal on May. 23, 2008 - 12:09 PM BookExpo America attendees will be able to sign up for digital delivery of Outliers, the forthcoming book from Malcolm Gladwell, at the NetGalley booth. Gladwell’s publisher, Hachette Book Group, is one of the first publishe ...
Revolving Door Book World Editor Buyout Confirmed: Arana Still Writing for WaPo By Neal on May. 23, 2008 - 11:30 AM Earlier this week, I told you that Marie Arana, the editor of the Book World section of the Washington Post, was one of several journalists accepting the paper’s buyout offer—a story that was first reported by mediabis ...
Book Biz Bill Clinton’s Brushing Up on His History By Neal on May. 23, 2008 - 11:09 AM Earlier this week, presidential hopeful Barack Obama was spotted reading Fareed Zakaria‘s new book, The Post-American World. Now former president Bill Clinton has been carrying around an ARC of Ark of the Liberties, a new hi ...
Book Biz Want 600 SF eBooks for Free? Become an Astronaut By Neal on May. 23, 2008 - 11:00 AM Baen Books reports that it’s making its entire offering of ebooks at the Webscriptions site available to astronauts stationed on the International Space Station, free of charge. According to Baen publisher Toni Weisskopf, re ...
Events Scene @ Brooklyn Noir 3 (in Manhattan) By Neal on May. 23, 2008 - 10:50 AM Last night, Amanda ReCupido swung by the Mysterious Bookshop for the launch of Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth, the latest installment in the award-winning Akashic Books Noir Series, where editors Tim McLoughlin and Thomas ...
Bookselling FishbowlNY Enjoys Seamless Gawker Advertorial By Neal on May. 23, 2008 - 8:09 AM The enthusiasm here at GalleyCat for Megan Hustad and her guide to self-improvement guides, How to Be Useful, is well–documented, so I smiled at yesterday’s item by FishbowlNY commentator Glynnis MacNicol about the Gaw ...
Authors The Met Will Sell Michael Gross Pictures By Neal on May. 22, 2008 - 3:05 PM It’s no secret that the Metropolitan Museum of Art hasn’t been actively cooperating with Michael Gross during his research phase for Rogues’ Gallery, his behind-the-scenes look at the museum—certainly not i ...
Events Scene @ David Einhorn’s Book Party By Neal on May. 22, 2008 - 1:33 PM FishbowlLA correspondent Tina Dupuy (in town for the annual mediabistro.com blogger meeting) and I were running late from Jeffrey Lewis‘s book party, so we got to the party for David Einhorn, the founder of the Greenlight Ca ...
Awards Charlie Savage Wins NYPL/Helen Bernstein Award By Neal on May. 22, 2008 - 1:15 PM James H. Bernstein, Charlie Savage, Helen Bernstein Fealy, and Kathryn Gandal Last night, the New York Public Library presented its annual Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism to Boston Globe correspondent Charl ...
Authors Simmons on Obama By Ethan on May. 22, 2008 - 12:30 PM Hip Hop impresario Russell Simmons was on Bloomberg TV’s Night Talk last night to promote the Gotham paperback edition of Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success (the book Oprah changed th ...