Publishing GalleyCat Versus BEA By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2009 - 7:23 AM As BookExpo America hits New York City today, GalleyCat is bravely reporting from the endless corridors of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. You can follow the action on this site for the next few days, or follow the micro-bl ...
Trends Toilet Paper Horror Novel By Jason Boog on May. 27, 2009 - 4:23 PM Forget fancy digital readers and electronic paper, the future of reading is written on a different medium. Japanese horror writer Koji Suzuki just published a nine-chapter novella on a roll of toilet paper. The “Drop” ...
Authors Non-Reader Kanye West Publishes By Jason Boog on May. 27, 2009 - 2:23 PM Hip-hop star Kanye West has just published a book of “Kanye-isms” with co-author J. Sakiya Sandifer. Entitled “Thank You And You’re Welcome,” the slim book contains 52-pages of West wisdom. In a blog- ...
Events Lit Mags Unite for NYC Extravaganza By Jason Boog on May. 27, 2009 - 12:23 PM As BookExpo America consumes New York City this weekend, three literary journals–The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, and Smith Mag–teamed up for an epic literary event at Highline Ballroom on May 30th. The line-up includes: ...
Awards James King Wins Breakthrough Novel Award By Jason Boog on May. 27, 2009 - 11:43 AM James King’s novel, “Bill Warrington’s Last Chance,” has won Amazon and Penguin Group USA’s Breakthrough Novel Award. The novel was picked out of thousands of entries filed by writers from 50 U.S. sta ...
Trends Comparing Apples and Kindles By Jason Boog on May. 27, 2009 - 11:23 AM Fortune magazine gave Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com, Inc. front-cover treatment this week–comparing Amazon’s Kindle aspirations to Apple’s iPod revolution. While citing a Citigroup report that estimated Kindle sales ...
Bookselling 1Q Sales Fall 12 Percent at Borders Group, Inc. By Jason Boog on May. 27, 2009 - 10:23 AM Borders Group, Inc. announced first quarter results yesterday, noting that total consolidated Q1 sales had dropped to $641.5 million–a 12.1 percent decrease compared to last year. At the same time, the company reduced its de ...
Events Let Two Debut Novelists Sing & Read Their Way Into Your Heart By Neal on May. 27, 2009 - 9:04 AM Two summers ago, we told you about HarperCollins editor Rakesh Satyal and his occasional moonlighting as a cabaret singer; it turns out that he was also working on a novel, Blue Boy, based ever so loosely on his own childhood as a ...
Awards Alice Munro Wins £60,000 Man Booker International Prize By Jason Boog on May. 27, 2009 - 9:03 AM Author Alice Munro (pictured, via) has won the third Man Booker International Prize, picked for the £60,000 (roughly $83,700) award out of a longlist that included 14 writers from 12 different countries. The prize was judged ...
Book Biz They’re Going to Party Like It’s 1969 By Neal on May. 27, 2009 - 8:04 AM If you’re wandering the aisles at BookExpo America this weekend, you might notice a bit of a theme to the Hal Leonard, where they’ll be promoting two books aimed at the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Woodstock Vision f ...