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Archives: June 2006

That Must've Been Some English Class!

Should Slate Lay Off Bush Already?

More Scenes from Eisner's Spirited Life

Satanic Fashion Film Opens Nationwide

Well, That Clears That Up

Digging into The God Factor

SF Publisher Jim Baen, 1943-2006

Apple Store Replacing Starbucks
as Writers' Grazing Spot?

Coming in 2008: Chabon Film Festival?

Greenberg Succeeds in Recovering After Tumble

Marketing Never Rests,
Not Even @ 7th-Inning Stretch

Microtrends - the new Freakonomics?

Freestone joins Quercus

David Race Bannon, This Summer's Fake Writer

Thriller writer turns sleuth - but letters still lost

Bertlesmann buys Portugal bookstore chain

If We Could Go Out Tonight...

What's next, a convening of Idiots?

Quick hits on bookstores

Why Reality TV is a boon to UK publishers

It's LibraryThing; Would You Understand?

More deaths for Potter VII

WHSmith deregulates

Univ Presses Face the Future in New Orleans

Slesinger to keep Winnie the Pooh rights

Nebraska Joins the UP Blog Lineup

Literati, Inspired by Vodka, Try Writing Sci-Fi

NYTBR Still Fixated on Updike, Lesbians

Another SF Store Closes—And That's OK

Tuesday Night Book Club, RIP

Peter Pan Heirs Protest Wendy's Porn Comic

"I Don't Want Any Spam!"

Openly Whoring Ourselves for Swag

Clarifying points about Bulfinch

Casinos are the new book venue

Get Your Pride On, Book-Style

Random House buys BBC Books

New look for Virago

Madison Square Park Turns Literary

What If We Give It Away?

Give the Plot Away, Then Sell the Book

HC's Friedman embraces the digital age

This is not the way to sell books

Kate Moss is out, but Pete Doherty is in

Brashich Confronts the Beauty Myth

When Gail Devers wants an apology, she gets it

HarperCollins teams up with DreamWorks

Thanks, We're Not Interested

Pohlman Reaps a Bountiful Literary Harvest

Scenes from the MegaYoga Book Party

Bulfinch Press scaled back

Be There AND Be Square

Chick Lit turns ten; film at eleven

Alice Munro gives up writing?

A Great Leap Forward in Natural Health?

Mapping the genome of books

Indigo Books launches revamped website

Paying tribute to Judith Moore

Idiot Box Not Creativity Killer After All?

Longoria's book deal: not so fast

Ex-Gossipers Provide Gossip Column Fodder

Anna Benson shopping a roman a clef?

Literary scandals aren't just reserved to the US

Meg Cabot's cross-audience appeal

Connelly mines the Crime Beat

Holding up the ethnic minority mirror

La Gata Dances for Flamenco Academy

A libel suit here, a libel suit there

Up, Up With Updike
You See Him Wherever You Go

BAD TWIN helmed by Laurence Shames

Seligman's inside dope on editing

Authorblogs Offer Wide Range of Advice

Author's death becomes a murder inquiry

Getting on the UK's Holy Grail: the Richard & Judy Show

NY Literary World Mourns Epstein's Death

So much for that Kate Moss book deal

Growing pains for Street Lit

Bay Area Indie Bookselling Landscape Shifts

Football Literati Suck In Another Fan

Borders opens new Distribution Center

Baen Books Founder Hospitalized After Stroke

Shocking Revelations About Amazon Sales Rankings!

J.A. Konrath's excellent GPS adventure

To Live and Read in L.A.

Turf Wars heat up

Headline reorganizes

Macmillan New Writing now includes sophomore novels

None Dare Call It a Catfight

Freestone departs Hutchinson for "new adventures"

mediabistro.com Throws Bullshit Party

Virgin Books to open NY Office?

Taking It to the Streets

RIF Was Never Like This Growing Up

Minotaur gets new VP

Growing pains in self-publishing

Bukowski archive to Huntington Library

Scribblers Congregate for Rooftop Celebration

Inside independents

Harry Potter printer gets anxious

Spider-Man Goes Public

It's Still Neil Gaiman's World...

Online Drive to Restore Katrina-Hit Libraries

Thanks to the World Cup, publishers start summer vacation in earnest

...and book sales decline thanks to the World Cup, too

US vs. UK turf wars continue; bloodshed imminent

The heiress of Granta

Another Story You've Already Read Here

Hawkings to write a children's book

Anti-Marketers' Pre-emptive Strike on YA Novel

GalleyCat Gallery: Mr. French & Callie

GalleyCat Gallery: Felicity & Keebler

GalleyCat Gallery: Lucy (and Bailey)

GalleyCat Gallery: Sophie, Olive, & Eli

GalleyCat Gallery: Stinkyboy

GalleyCat Gallery: Alistair

GalleyCat Gallery: Minky

GalleyCat Gallery: Mr. Man
(and Honorable Mentions)

Real Book Critic Wags Finger at Online Upstarts

Buy Penguin Steinbecks While Supplies Last?

If You Don't Like Cat Pictures...

What's Good for Fay Weldon is Good for YA

Shut Up Wishing Ann Coulter Would Shut Up

Do Women Want Tougher Thrillers?

We Shall Brook No Opposition

Do YOU Have GalleyCats?

Daily News Lags Far Behind Blogosphere

Carr Sells Memoir to S&S

An eight-book deal is something to talk about

Ted Turner book goes to Hachette Book Group

Dagger Awards judge dismissal

Our Excess Party Photos Find a Home

Cornwell donates $1M to Cornell Veterinary hospital

But they really need a catchy name

We Either Feel Validated or Vindicated

Young Lions Prize to Uzodinma Iweala

Newflash: book signings need to make money, too!

UK Revenue service denies author tax claims

Chicklit meets fashion, high end store style

Perdue: Not Just Thieves, But Liars, Too

Is BookScan a Tool or a Weapon?

Lee Iacocca can't stop writing leadership books

Borders cuts jobs, increase quarter loss

The Devil Gets Prada With Free Shipping

Red Sonja vs. Red Sonya

Mnookin: Dan Brown Fans Already Pissed

The problem with Canadian pricing

Profit & Loss, part the second

Macmillan UK's union troubles

"Good Ol' Dan Brown—How I Hate Him!"

e-book epilogues

Zadie Smith wins the Orange Prize

The Case of the Secret Santa

See the "I'm a PC" Guy Read Live!

The digerati stake their claim on publishing

Why penalizing authors for having agents is a bad, bad idea

Snyder's Book Party Takes the Cake

Greenspan picks a collaborator

44 Scotland Street, Podcast Style

What to Call Those Jumbo-Sized Mass Markets

Check Her Hairline for Birthmarks, I Say!

Mass market originals hot? Maybe not so much

Common Sense Doesn't Come Cheap

And You Thought Book Tours Were Grueling...

The taxmen go after Richard & Judy

Well-Laid Plans to Celebrate Impulse!

Tracking the page turners

You mean, mass market originals are hot again?

"Summer Reading" Makes Me Feel Fine

NYTBR Deigns to Notice Online Criticism

Bookstore spotlight: Powell's changes hands, and Tattered Cover moves house

Crash Course in American Literature

"Queen of the Oddballs" Keeps Good Company

No really, paying for co-op is a *good* thing!

The death knell for independents is sounded for the millionth time

Jamie Byng can't rid himself of the rock star mystique

Housing Works Goes to the Dogs

Scenes From Lauren Weinstein's Book Party

The retirement of Henry Kisor

Scenes from David Goodwillie's Book Party

One Is the Loneliest Number...

Onward Christian Shooters

Handicapping a sleeper hit

Plame Deal Falls Through; S&S now front-runner

Tavani on Mortalis, publishing and more

Today in Wottakar's: in the wake of the merger news

Get ready for the Costa Book Awards

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