Authors Google Poised To Pay Authors and Publishers $45 Million By Jason Boog on Oct. 28, 2008 - 1:03 PM The Authors Guild announced a settlement with Google today, finally resolving their lawsuit that stalled Google’s efforts to scan books into a giant database. In 2005, the Guild sued Google over efforts to scan millions of p ...
Trends When Is the Best Time To Twitter About Books? By Jason Boog on Oct. 28, 2008 - 11:23 AM When is the best time to write less than 140 characters about your favorite book? According to Twist, the addictive website that monitors Twitter keywords, the word “book” is most frequently typed on Twitter every week ...
Authors Why We Write: Dave Eggers on Making a Difference By Neal on Oct. 28, 2008 - 9:03 AM In this short presentation, bestselling author and McSweeney’s publisher Dave Eggers, one of the winners of last year’s TED Prize, explains the origins of 826 Valencia, his San Francisco-based community youth writing c ...
Book Biz Book Fairs: Financial Pressure, But Also an Outlet for It By Neal on Oct. 28, 2008 - 9:00 AM The Texas Book Festival is coming up this weekend, and we wish we could make it out to Austin, but our travel budget is just about depleted for 2008. (We may have a line on some field dispatches, though; stay tuned!) We asked the ...
Publishing Reed Elsevier Offering More Money to Take Magazines Off Its Hands? By Neal on Oct. 28, 2008 - 8:00 AM paidContent.org has been following Reed Elsevier‘s efforts to sell off its Reed Business Information division—which includes trade publications like Publishers Weekly and Library Journal—with great interest, and ...
Trends Women and Men and the “Big Idea” Genre, Take Two By Neal on Oct. 28, 2008 - 7:01 AM Last week’s post about the idea that women don’t write “big idea” books has generated some commentary throughout the blogosphere. “It’s apparently widely believed that we don’t exist,̶ ...
Authors Depression Books By Jason Boog on Oct. 27, 2008 - 5:23 PM “The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The beer kept rising in ...
Revolving Door Coolman to Hyperion, Greko to Macmillan By Neal on Oct. 27, 2008 - 2:56 PM ⇒Marie Coolman (left), the director of publicity and marketing at Hudson Street Press and Plume at the Penguin Group, has accepted a new position as the executive director of publicity at Hyperion Publishing, where, as the p ...
Trends Reader Supported Writing By Jason Boog on Oct. 27, 2008 - 2:23 PM New media journalist Ana Marie Cox (pictured, from her site) passed an imaginary hat to save the election story of a lifetime–raising a couple thousand dollars in a few days. Could her campaign save struggling nonfiction wri ...
Bookselling More on the Hard-to-Find Jewel of Medina By Neal on Oct. 27, 2008 - 2:21 PM Remember last Friday’s item about the rumors that some shoppers were having trouble finding The Jewel of Medina in their local chain bookstores? Book Chase blogger Sam Houston had an equally hard time locating the book at Ba ...