Digital Shelfari Gets Facelift By Ethan on Jun. 24, 2008 - 12:00 PM Shelfari, the book lovers and reviewers social networking site based in Seattle with a global community just got a makeover. Officially launched in October 2006, Shelfari was the first social media site focused on books, their mis ...
Videos Craig Seymour Bares his Tour on Youtube By Ethan on Jun. 24, 2008 - 10:25 AM If you ever wanted to know what its like behind the scenes of an author tour, check out Craig Seymour’s video posts on his book tour for All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay D.C. His tour of his hotel is hilar ...
Authors Jackie Collins’ Steamy Secret By Ethan on Jun. 24, 2008 - 9:55 AM B&N Tagged was talking to Jackie Collins about good beach reads. Among her suggestions are Whacked by E! News reporter Jules Asner and Tan Lines, by John Salem. Turns out while Collins was in a B&N checking out her backlis ...
Events Ellen Sussman Paints the Scene @ the Dirty Words Party By Ethan on Jun. 24, 2008 - 9:22 AM Twenty contributors to Ellen Sussman’s new book, Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia Of Sex showed up at the publication party/dirty word fest at Susan Goodman’s apartment on the Upper West Side last Thursday evening ...
Book Biz AvantGuild: You Can’t Always Get What You Want on Your Book Cover By Neal on Jun. 24, 2008 - 9:04 AM Kudos to UnBeige for catching this one first: Rachel Kramer Bussel has filed a story for the main mediabistro.com site about how to discuss your book cover with your publisher. Most of the time, you’ll be lucky to get any in ...
Trends Hachette Buries the Cassette Audiobook Format By Neal on Jun. 24, 2008 - 8:01 AM Publicist Megan Fitzpatrick sent us this photo from the wake the Hachette Audiobooks team threw last Friday afternoon for the book-on-tape—after putting out James Patterson‘s Sail, the company has stopped production on ...
Bookselling Publishers Reporting Flat Performance in 2008 By Neal on Jun. 24, 2008 - 8:00 AM While bookstores are experiencing a small surge in sales, the Association of American Publishers has a less positive outlook: April’s 3.5 percent in sales was a vast improvement over the 11 percent plunge of March, but remem ...
Book Biz Cats Make Every Book Trailer That Much Better By Neal on Jun. 24, 2008 - 7:03 AM Not that there aren’t plenty of other reasons to enjoy the one-minute promotional film for Kitty Kitty, the new YA novel from Michele Jaffe, starting with the fact that I’ve been a fan since the days of historical roma ...
Authors George Carlin, 1937-2008 By Neal on Jun. 24, 2008 - 12:38 AM “wow george carlin wrote two bestsellers and not one mention on Galleycat of his passing,” complains a reader with a shaky grasp on capitalization and punctuation who felt so strongly about this matter that he chose to ...
Trends e-textooks: Big With The Kids Today By Ethan on Jun. 23, 2008 - 11:18 AM Ingram Digital just announced their Survey of 680 e-Book Users and uncovered key drivers behind their recent 400% surge in digital textbook adoption. 47% of those surveyed believe that “cost in relation to print copies” ...