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B&N Won’t Stock If I Did It in Stores
The nation’s three largest booksellers have made their decisions about carrying If I Did It, and the results suggest that more customers may be buying the book online than in stores. Amazon said it will carry If I Did It on its site just as it would any other book, and Barnes & Noble.com will [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Penguin Launches VP Book Club Online
The Penguin Group has launched the VP Book Club, an online reading resource featuring titles from Viking Press and Penguin Group. The site is aimed at reading groups and will feature the regular presentation of new Viking hardcovers, Penguin paperbacks and Penguin Classics. The new site offers a monthly newsletter, an archive collecting the books [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )J.K. Rowling Writing Crime Novel?
J.K. Rowling has been spotted at cafes in Scotland working on a detective novel, a British newspaper reported Saturday.The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Ian Rankin, a fellow author and neighbor of Rowling’s, as saying the creator of the “Harry Potter” books is turning to crime fiction.”My wife spotted her writing her Edinburgh criminal detective novel,” [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book Excerpts to Be Viewed on IPhone
The publishing world is linking up to the iPhone.HarperCollins announced Wednesday that it had set up a special link, http://mobile.harpercollins.com, that will allow browsers to view excerpts from more than a dozen new releases, including Michael C. White’s “Soul Catcher” and Michael Korda’s “Ike,” a biography of President Eisenhower.
“Reaching consumers on mobile devices and the [...]
Denise Brown Wants O.J. Book Boycott
The sister of Nicole Brown Simpson on Tuesday called for a boycott of the O.J. Simpson book “If I Did It” about the slaying of Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend Ronald Goldman.Denise Brown said she was “shocked and horrified” to learn that a literary agent for the Goldman family had reached a deal to publish [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )DailyLit Adds Publishers, Titles
From Publishers Weekly:
DailyLit, a new company formed this spring to deliver books to customers via e-mail or RSS installments, has added two more publishers to its roster as well as 150 new public domain titles. Perseus Books Group and Globe Pequot have both agreed to give titles to DailyLit, which will launch its paid service [...]
Another Bad Month for Bookstore Sales
Info from Publishers Weekly :
Bookstore sales fell again in June, dropping 6.6%, to $1.13 billion, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales declined every month in the January through June period, resulting in a 4.6% drop in bookstore sales at the midway point of 2007. For the entire retail sector, sales were [...]
New York company to publish O.J. Simpson book
It’s already happened. A New York based publishing company has inked a deal for the rights to publish O.J. Simpson’s hypothetical account of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson. Â
A federal judge last month gave the rights to the book, entitled “If I Did It,” to Goldman’s family, who are owed $33.5 million in damages by Simpson. [...]
Ted Lewin Returns to the Ring
From Publishers Weekly:Â
Ted Lewin has created more than 100 books for children, including Caldecott Honor Book Peppe the Lamplighter and Market, named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. Before launching his writing and illustration career, the aspiring artist attended Pratt Institute, and financed his tuition by working part-time as a professional wrestler, an experience [...]
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