Digital Journalist Suggsts Amazon Should Not Apologize By Jason Boog on Jul. 28, 2009 - 10:23 AM In a recent Telegraph column, journalist Paul Carr praised Amazon.com, Inc. for last week’s digital scandal–proposing that the company had every right to remotely remove two titles from users’ Kindles. The compan ...
Digital Digital Editorial Director Picked at HarperCollins By Jason Boog on Jul. 28, 2009 - 9:23 AM Yesterday HarperCollins named Margot Schupf to the newly created position of digital editorial director at the conglomerate publisher’s Morrow/Avon/Eos group. According to Crain’s NY, the experimental post will allow S ...
Bookselling UnBeige: Prairie Ave Bookshop No More? By Neal on Jul. 28, 2009 - 8:00 AM Steve Delahoyde, co-editor of mediabistro.com’s design blog, UnBeige, brings us sad news for Chicago booklovers: Prairie Avenue Bookshop, a downtown indie store specializing in architectural books, is—as reported in th ...
Digital The Future of [Some] Publishing By Jason Boog on Jul. 27, 2009 - 5:23 PM In a new essay, publishing consultant and former Soft Skull publisher Richard Nash has sketched out the design of his two new digital publishing imprints–looking at what he calls “the future of [some] publishing.” ...
Authors Publicity Lessons: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Richard Yates By Jason Boog on Jul. 27, 2009 - 4:23 PM Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu was James P. Othmer, advertising expert and author of the upcoming book, “Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet.” Before working in advertising, Oth ...
Events The Song Is You, Times Two By Neal on Jul. 27, 2009 - 3:56 PM In my role as the curator of the literary website Beatrice, I’ve been branching out into readings and other live events—and when I recently realized that Arthur Phillips and Megan Abbott had both published novels title ...
Trends French Cashier Bags Bestseller By Jason Boog on Jul. 27, 2009 - 2:23 PM Writers from all over the world have flocked to Paris, dreaming of literary success. But one bestselling French author turned that writer’s dream upside down–she worked in a grocery store 200 miles away from the litera ...
Trends Holes in the Amazon Kindle Library By Jason Boog on Jul. 27, 2009 - 12:23 PM In lengthy, punchy critique of Amazon.com, Inc.’s Kindle 2, novelist and passionate print defender Nicholson Baker takes a literary look at the future of reading. His essay analyzes everything from the Kindle shipping box (& ...
Adaptation David Cronenberg to Adapt Don DeLillo Novel By Jason Boog on Jul. 27, 2009 - 11:23 AM Critically-acclaimed director David Cronenberg will shoot a filmed version of Don DeLillo’s ‘Cosmopolis”–a 2003 novel studying one eventful day in the life of a young New York City millionaire. According to ...
Book Biz Punk Rock Book Promotion By Jason Boog on Jul. 27, 2009 - 10:23 AM The publishing recession has forced a generation of writers to improvise new ways of finding readers. On the Morning Media Menu last Friday, University of Detroit Mercy English Professor Nicholas Rombes, pondered parallels between ...