Book Biz UnBeige Makes the Kidd/Vanderbilt Connection By Neal on Jun. 30, 2009 - 7:00 AM It’s no secret that Stephanie Murg, the co-editor of mediabistro.com’s design industry blog, UnBeige, is a huge Chip Kidd fan (just like us!), so we weren’t surprised to see her writing about the cover Kidd desig ...
Events Literati Show Their Pride at LGBT Parade By Neal on Jun. 30, 2009 - 7:00 AM Photographer Miriam Berkley went to last Sunday’s Gay Pride parade along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue where she spotted bestselling novelist Susan Isaacs (top row, with the hat) holding up a banner for the National Organiz ...
People Dr. Askhari Johnson Hodari By Jeff Rivera on Jun. 30, 2009 - 5:30 AM What I appreciated about my Featured “Book of Color” Pick of the Day is that in The African Book of Names it is more than just a list of 5000 African names. There is a meaning behind each name and it is apparent that t ...
Bookselling B&N Faces Amazon in App Store By Jason Boog on Jun. 29, 2009 - 4:23 PM In its debut today, the brand-new Barnes & Noble iPhone app hit the number three spot on the “Top Free Apps” list in Apple App Store’s “Books” category–going head-to-head with two Amazon dig ...
Authors Inside Michael Jackson’s Library By Jason Boog on Jun. 29, 2009 - 3:23 PM The late pop singer Michael Jackson published three books during his lifetime, and read like a writer–he reportedly owned 10,000 books and shopped at Los Angeles bookstores throughout his career. According to an LA Times int ...
Publishing Bernard Madoff Sentenced; Books To Come By Jason Boog on Jun. 29, 2009 - 2:23 PM Federal judge Denny Chin sentenced Bernard Madoff to 150 years in prison today. In March, Madoff plead guilty to eleven criminal counts related to his collapsed Ponzi scheme. The WSJ reports that the judge approved a “prelim ...
Authors Literary Internet Reacts to Alice Hoffman’s Tweet By Jason Boog on Jun. 29, 2009 - 12:23 PM As GalleyCat editor Ron Hogan explained so well this morning, novelist Alice Hoffman made waves in the Twitter-stream yesterday when she published critic Roberta Silman’s telephone number and email address on Twitter–u ...
Digital Wattpad Launches Google Android Application By Jason Boog on Jun. 29, 2009 - 11:23 AM The writing website Wattpad launched an app for Google Android smartphones today, bringing billions of pages from the site’s library to mobile phone readers. Since 2006, Wattpad has focused on creating a community of authors ...
Book Biz Read Your “Texts From Last Night” in a Book By Jason Boog on Jun. 29, 2009 - 10:23 AM The curators of a web-based collection of bad text messages, “Texts From Last Night,” just scored a deal with Penguin’s Gotham Books–giving readers a book-length collection of texts like “I just found ...
Authors Reprinting Michael Jackson By Jason Boog on Jun. 29, 2009 - 9:23 AM In the wake of Michael Jackson’s tragic death last week, Macmillan decided to reprint 85,000 copies of Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness–a biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli. According to Bookseller, the book ...