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Archives: May 2006

Taking Sci-Fi Seriously

Have Platform, will Publish

Yes Virginia, there will be a sequel to the Graduate

Today in Wottakar's: HMV officially makes the buy

Scenes from the Girls' Night Out Party

BookExpo Aftermath Includes Dueling Podcasts

No Sucess Through Clean Living, by Barry Bonds?

John Updike doesn't exactly heart the Internet

One Week They're Literati,
The Next They're Foodies

Hachette Shifts UK Sci-Fi Line to US

She's really a secret agent when ghostwriters are her clients

Slam Poetry for the Cyber-crowd?

Books, Funny Books: 'Net Devours All

The nitty gritty of publishing co-op

M&S further in bed with Random House

On both sides of the publishing fence

The indies of Brooklyn

Book Clubs Conducted in IM: In the Future!

Brave & Bold? Nah, Just a Great Leap Forward

Alex Toth, 1928-2006

Green Book Unites President-Elect & Cyberpunk

Only 2 Days Left to See Lestat!

Bloggers, Publicists Need to Get Along

The children's book report

Big deals really do happen over dinner

Barbara Walters gets greedy, cancels contract

BEA: from the UK standpoint

Party Hopping with Partland and Spiegelman

Crowd Pleasers of the mostly male variety

Some Nights My Job Is Awesome

Goldstein to Take Over Twelve Publicity

Desperate Book Clubs

A Da Vinci Code story that's actually kind of amusing

Expat Harem Swings Back Through NYC

HarperCollins and Fox do TV deals

Bertelsmann arranges buyback deal

A Night of Non-Fiction Book Parties

Belated BookExpo Broadsides

H4CK3R 3L33T PWNS B00K W0RLD

Triple Crown success

Why Is This Man Not Smiling?

Graphic Memoir Explores Combat High

Queen of the literary partyhoppers

Fudging on Memoirs Leads to Payback

Today in Wottakar's: prices slide but they still want HMV to bid

Bertelsmann really, really doesn't want to go public

The Books I Scored This Weekend

Dateline BEA: last gasp of links

One Last Batch of BEA Party Shots

Pondering the future of independents

Midnight Train to Siberia

Fewer kids reading?

Dateline BEA: Managing Career Intensity

Dateline BEA: We Are All Marketers Now

Dateline BEA: Random Sunday Signings

Dateline BEA: Checking in with Regnery

Dateline BEA: Blogging from elsewhere

Dateline BEA: oh, the parties that they threw

Dateline BEA: News from elsewhere

Dateline BEA: networking opportunities and the state of thrillers

Dateline BEA: Random Snapshots from Friday

Dateline BEA: The view from the floor

Dateline BEA: @ the Reading the World Party

Dateline BEA: Canadian Markets and No Brownie Love

Dateline BEA: Welcome to the Long Tail

Dateline BEA: We Hear This "Web" is Happening

Dateline BEA: connectivity issues and DC environs

Just giving us more reasons to hate him

So Much for My Hotel's High-Speed Internet

Clinton's next book deal

Dateline BEA: The Madness Begins

Dateline BEA: Who Else Will Be There?

First Second Goes Forth

Royalty Structure Tames the Wild West

More Book Fairs This Weekend (Oddly Enough)

Canadian book prices falling down, falling down

Colonial Leaders Blog from Beyond the Grave

Today in Wottakar's: HMV re-ups with lowball offer

Not too many author interviews are like this

Accessories Make the Book Tour

Starbucks taking over the world redux

Our boss wasn't herself, and others respond

It's Been a Da Vinci Code Day...

Starbucks really is taking over the publishing world

Another Da Vinci Code Plagiarism Case?

Write your thriller with the highest bidder

Speaking of Da Vinci

They Love Libraries

Scenes from Melissa de la Cruz's Party

He Puts on Pants One Leg at a Time, Too

Outtakes from This Week's PW Story

The Great LBF bait-and-switch: Reed wins, but at what cost?

Rebuck on Running Random House UK

Steve Almond Quits BC Writing Post

Leonard Cohen love, all over again

It's only a matter of time before it's available here

This Just In: Da Vinci Code Unrealistic!

Laura Miller Would Prefer Not To

Dept. of You Read It Here First

Freywatch: he admits fabrications

Your Reactions to NYTBR's "Best" List

When agents go solo

Scenes from Last Night's Parties

It's Official: Wottakar's approved by the Competition Commission

Baker & Taylor passed from one equity firm to another

DC Launches Weekly Comic

Itzkoff: I'm Still Standing

LBF at Earl's Court next year - but run by Reed!

In which the NYTBR establishes that it is relevant in its own mind

2nd Opinion: Did the NYTBR Fumble?

Political Dust-Up at Kid Literacy Fest

Waterstone's gets online and bloggy

Up, down, introduced

Another Chick-Lit Cover with Legs

Don't Forget Our Many Fine Workshops

Tie-ins for Teen Books; Chick Lit Grows up

Book Drop is actually a literal term here

Big Read Kicks Off @ Carnegie Hall

A Bit of Mehta-physical Foolery

Choose your own DVD Adventure

The Truth Doesn't Come Cheap

J.K. Rowling comes to town

Freywatch Limps to Its Finale

Book trailers by the Book Standard

The LBF Turf War continues

Scenes from the Believeniks Party

Easy Riders, Raging Books

They've Been Handing Out Prizes

Meanwhile, back at the BA...

Where's Our Book TV Residuals?

Nasdijj Becomes An Esquire Subject Again

Today's litterbox headlines

New York Magazine's Influentials

The Valerie Plame Book Deal Sweepstakes go to...

Dog Memoirist With a Bone to Pick

Scenes from the Fence Poker Tournament

The Good ship cookbook empire

The serious minded Dee

The Return of Writers Too Cute for Words

What's this, the *real* London Book Fair?

What to Do, What to Do...

Lost in a Tie-in Book

Belated Congrats to DC Fishbowler!

Shut Up With Your Unfunny Kaavya Jokes

Publishers Vie for Plame Proposal

Long-Lost Story About Muhammad to Re-Appear

OFT continues to investigate Bertrams

McCafferty to Bury CopyKaavya @ Cash Register

Graywolf Stalking Downtown Manhattan

Scenes from the Eat This Book! Party

In the wake of CopyKaavya, teen chick lit is scrutinized

Raytheon CEO gets $1m fine

Bertelsmann to keep buying; Lagardere, too

PlameGate in Book Form?

Scenes from Catherine Lloyd Burns' Book Party

YA Authors Convene @ Books of Wonder

One last CopyKaavya roundup

Alas, Kaavya, We Hardly Knew Ye...

John Daly's gambling issues

Bob Andelman Is Not a Terrorist, OK?

The power of small presses

Bye bye Blackwell's?

This definitely qualifies for Department of WTF

Sayonara, CopyKaavya

Kaavya's Photo Memory Takes Multi Exposures

Brooklyn Literati Work It for School Library

CopyKaavya: Plagiarism, Part Two (and Three, and Four...)

I Want a Hit Record, Yeah

Wottakar's: The Bottom drops out

The Good Book Covers Cost $100,000

What really lies beneath those helmets and high Cs

Our Publisher Is Not Herself Today

The Literary Scene at Newburyport

Amazon switches from Google to Microsoft

Book Packagers in the News

Patterson, Inc. goes an extra step

And this is why it's not always wise for writers to get overly personal in print

Covering the LA Times Book Festival

Saturday Night with the Believer

Last Dregs of CopyKaavya Coverage
(Knock Wood)

Philip Roth, Ubiquitous Interviewee

Blog Lifts Another Pre-Pub to Amazon #1

May Day Litterbox

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