Bookselling Barnes & Noble, Inc. to Offer Free Wi-Fi in Stores By Jason Boog on Jul. 29, 2009 - 11:23 AM Teaming up with AT&T, Barnes & Noble, Inc. will install free wi-fi at the company’s 777 bookstores around the country. In the release, the company stressed that wi-fi hookup will allow shoppers to download titles fro ...
Editors Editing William T. Vollmann By Jason Boog on Jul. 29, 2009 - 10:23 AM With a seven-volume, 3,000-page meditation on violence behind him (“Rising Up, Rising Down“) and a 1,300-page book ahead of him (“Imperial“), William T. Vollmann presents a unique, obsessive task for any ed ...
Book Biz UnBeige: Could Literature Become an Art Object? By Neal on Jul. 29, 2009 - 9:00 AM Thanks to a heads-up from Stephanie Murg, the co-editor of mediabistro.com’s design blog, UnBeige, we’re captivated by the concept of The Journal of Popular Noise, a limited-edition “audio magazine” that pa ...
Videos It’s Like Love Letters, With More Laffs By Neal on Jul. 29, 2009 - 8:00 AM A few years back, we met Annabelle Gurwitch to talk about Fired!, the book (and subsequent documentary) which began by detailing her own experiences being dismissed from jobs and then expanded to incorporate the experiences of oth ...
People Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Merriweather By Jeff Rivera on Jul. 29, 2009 - 7:30 AM Daddy Was a Number Runner (The Feminist Press) is my featured book of color pick of the day. It is written by Louise Merriweather and is a novel and this is the reprint of the original edition which was published in 1970. Some boo ...
Authors Ashton Kutcher and David Pogue Publish Twitter Fans By Jason Boog on Jul. 28, 2009 - 5:23 PM According to FishbowlLA, Twitter superstar Ashton Kutcher recently used the microblogging site to find a joke for an upcoming movie. What does this mean for writers? Today on the Morning Media Menu AgencySpy co-editor Kiran Aditha ...
Trends G.I. Joe Fan Fiction Unleashed By Jason Boog on Jul. 28, 2009 - 4:23 PM 92YTribeca hosted a small army of G.I. Joe fans over the weekend at the G.I. Joe Stop Motion Film Festival. These toys have spawned hundreds of comic books and cartoons, and the film festival collected cinematic acts fan fiction f ...
Authors Nancy Drew Reader Endorsed by Senate Judiciary By Jason Boog on Jul. 28, 2009 - 2:23 PM Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor received a 13-6 endorsement from the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and according to the New York Times, her full-Senate confirmation “seems to be assured.” In an ongoing GalleyCat inve ...
Awards Man Booker Dozen Announced By Jason Boog on Jul. 28, 2009 - 12:23 PM The Booker Prize Foundation has announced the 13-author “Man Booker Dozen” longlist for the 2009 edition of the £50,000 literary prize. Last year Aravind Adiga won the annual prize for “The White Tiger.R ...
Adaptation J.R.R Tolkien Estate Sues to Block “The Hobbit” Adaptation By Jason Boog on Jul. 28, 2009 - 11:23 AM J.R.R Tolkien’s family and estate have sued to block production of the upcoming adaptation of “The Hobbit,” claiming they are owed $220 million from adaptation profits and should reclaim film rights to the book. ...