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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