Authors Now, Let Us Talk Like Good Friends at Tosca By Neal on Apr. 30, 2009 - 7:00 AM When Wells Tower showed up in San Francisco Tuesday night to promote his new short story collection, Everything Ravaged Everything Burned, among the local literati who came out to the party at Tosca Café to cheer his success ...
Trends W.W. Norton Offers Build-Your-Own Online Texbooks By Jason Boog on Apr. 29, 2009 - 5:23 PM Publisher W.W. Norton has launched Chapter Select e-Books program for schools, allowing teachers and students to choose which school book chapters they want to buy–building a customized online textbook for the classroom. Pri ...
Digital PEN Festival Book Trailer Tips By Jason Boog on Apr. 29, 2009 - 3:23 PM Last night at the Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast, GalleyCat went searching for advice about book trailers. Hundreds of authors have tried to build videos, but the festival showcased the work of the world’s ...
Digital Peter Brett Writes 100,000-Word Novel on Cell Phone By Jason Boog on Apr. 29, 2009 - 2:23 PM Forsaking more traditional tools like notebooks and laptops, high-tech novelist Peter Brett typed out a 100,000-word novel on his cell phone while riding the train to work every day. The NY Daily News reports the nimble-fingered n ...
Digital Amazon Coy about Stanza Plans By Jason Boog on Apr. 29, 2009 - 12:23 PM GalleyCat followed-up on the surprise news that Amazon.com, Inc. has acquired Lexcycle, the company that created the iPhone reader, Stanza. The online bookseller now owns the two top Book related applications in the Apple App Stor ...
Book Biz Evolving Deep Web Search Engine By Jason Boog on Apr. 29, 2009 - 11:23 AM As more and more content is digitized, readers need better tools to sift through the voluminous material. Earlier this week, DeepDyve launched an online toolbox designed to help readers search by whole sentences, paragraphs, or en ...
Events “B” as in Beauty By Jeff Rivera on Apr. 29, 2009 - 10:29 AM Latino author Alberto Ferreras hosted a swingin’ book launch party for the debut of Grand Central’s B as in Beauty last night at the Elmo Restaurant on 7th Ave. The room was packed with a diverse group of people from H ...
Publishing Google Books Settlement Under Justice Department Review By Jason Boog on Apr. 29, 2009 - 10:23 AM After meetings with parties rallying against the Google Books settlement–including the Internet Archive and Consumer Watchdog–the Justice Department decided to review the settlement that will allow Google to provide sc ...
Book Biz In the Endcap Stands a Boxer By Neal on Apr. 29, 2009 - 9:00 AM We’re unabashed fans of Hard Case Crime, but when the monthly “care package” from the pulp fiction specialists showed up in our mailbox recently, it seemed a bit thicker than usual. A cover letter from editor Cha ...
Authors The Complete Works of Arlen Specter By Jason Boog on Apr. 29, 2009 - 8:23 AM Following his shocking announcement that he intends to run as a Democrat next year, Senior Republican US Senator Arlen Specter published an essay in, of all places, The New York Review of Books–his first essay there since 19 ...