View Post Bookselling Choose Your Own Adventure on the iPad By Jason Boog on Jan. 23, 2013 - 11:42 AM Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, classic Choose Your Own Adventure books are now available for the iPad. AppNewser has all the details: Edward Packard‘s classic Choose Your Own Adventure book Underground Kingdom has ...
View Post Revolving Door Publishing Jobs: ABRAMS, Abbeville Press, Bloomsbury Spark By Nadine Cheung on Jan. 23, 2013 - 11:00 AM This week, ABRAMS is hiring a publicity and marketing manager for its children’s books division, and Abbeville Press needs a senior marketing an publicity associate. Bloomsbury Spark is seeking a digital editor, and the RAND ...
View Post Digital Margaret Atwood Shares Her Favorite App By Jason Boog on Jan. 22, 2013 - 3:23 PM In a new weekly feature, Margaret Atwood answers a simple question: “What’s Your Favorite App? Find out what app she prefers over at AppNewser. Who would you like the AppNewser to interview next? Check it out: Welcome t ...
View Post People Jennifer Lawrence Pokes Fun at The Hunger Games & The Hobbit By Maryann Yin on Jan. 22, 2013 - 2:30 PM Jennifer Lawrence, the actress who portrays Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series, recently hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live. Lawrence (pictured, via), who won a Golden Globe for her performance in a movie ada ...
View Post Book Biz What Richard Blanco Read at Barack Obama’s Inauguration By Jason Boog on Jan. 22, 2013 - 1:23 PM Inaugural poet Richard Blanco read “One Today” for President Barack Obama‘s inauguration in Washington D.C. yesterday. What did you think of the poem? Here is an excerpt: My face, your face, millions of faces in ...
View Post Authors | Book Biz | Bookselling Authors Pose in Gender-Flipped Sexy Science Fiction Cover By Jason Boog on Jan. 22, 2013 - 12:41 PM To raise money for the Aicardi Syndrome Foundation, a team of five novelists posed for a gender-flipped posed copy of a sexy science fiction cover. You can bid on an autographed copy of the photograph at eBay. Photographer Al Bog ...
View Post Digital Random House Launches BookScout App on Facebook By Jason Boog on Jan. 22, 2013 - 11:23 AM Random House launched a new app for Facebook called BookScout, helping readers find new books online. AppNewser has all the details: When you first sign up for the app it will recommend books to you based on your Facebook tim ...
Publishing Liliana Hart Tops Our Self-Published Bestsellers List By Jason Boog on Jan. 22, 2013 - 10:23 AM Novelist Liliana Hart has topped our Self Published Bestsellers List, her romantic mystery rising at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. To help GalleyCat readers discover self-published authors, we have compiled lists of the top eBo ...
View Post Publishing Les Misérables in Infographics By Jason Boog on Jan. 22, 2013 - 10:16 AM Ever wonder what your favorite novel would look like as an infographic? Programmer Jeff Clark took Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, exploring the book in a set of visualizations exploring the relationships between words, them ...
View Post Libraries How R.L. Stine Discovered Ray Bradbury By Jason Boog on Jan. 22, 2013 - 9:23 AM In the video embedded above, the great R.L. Stine explains how he discovered Ray Bradbury for the first time as a kid lost in the library. The experience would spawn a life-long love of literature and help launch a long writing ca ...