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Archives: December 2006

Happy New Year from GalleyCat!

Churches Get Mysterious and Funny

AMS Files for Voluntary Bankruptcy

21 Years Later: Let's Remake King David!

Can You Stand Another Top 10 List?

Scene @ Aury Wallington's Pop Party

Don't Abandon Those Pitch Letters Yet

Sci-Fi Classics Stuck in Limbo

Do Reviewers Care About the Pitch Letter?

The Further Literary Adventures of Hitler

From Book to Movie, "Children of Men" Style

Lust-ful Librarian Takes It Online

Blame the System, Not the Bosses

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

Jazz Historian Takes Work to the People

Taking a Virtual Red Pen to Iraq Report

Osama + Humor = Success

Regan's Attorney Unveils Supportive "Ear-witness"

Welcome, Mother Jones Readers!

A warning bell for independent bookshops

Korea's Ghostwriting Scandal

Amazon.com: "Best Ever" Holiday Season

Publishing a Clef

Beatles Fans Go On Their Own

2007 Publishing Predictions

Bratton Seeks a Book Deal

Wanted: Savvy Sci-Fi Critic for NYTBR

What a Week! We're Exhausted...

Party Hopping on Rivington Street

Letterhead No Longer So Essential

This'll Blow the Heartland's Minds...

Donadio's South African Adventure Continues

Heroes & Villains of 2006

More about Dutton's closing

What Awaits Publishing in 2007?

Harry Potter VII Gets a Title

If She Said It... It Works For Her?

For Judith Regan, Impossible is Nothing

Dinitia Smith Leaves Full-Time Post at NYT

Dark Tower Looms on the Horizon

The Regan Report: It's Still All About Judith

Gawker Scoops NYT on Mezuza-Gate

Enough with the Company Letterhead, Already!

Hodgman's Expertise Free for the Holidays

Blogger Challenges NYTBR on "Sloppy" Tag

Children's author demands Amazon UK removal

Dutton's Beverly Hills Closes Shop, Too

Leading Jewish Newspaper Absolves Regan (sorta)

Questions Over NBCC's Field of Vision

Somebody's Paying for Customer Reviews!

There Go My 15 Minutes

The Regan Report: OJ Lawsuit Filed, Regan Keeps Radio Show

The Regan Report: ADL Condemnation, Shearer on Sirius

Oldest Mystery Bookstore to Close December 31

Sam Tanenhaus Gives Good TV

Do You See What I See?

A Memoir for Dell'Olio

On the Children's Book Beat

"Difficult" market affects HMV, WHSmith, UK retailers

Writers Studio Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Goodman Wins $100K Puffin/Nation Prize

Unspinning Peter Olson's End-of-Year Letter

Baby's First Book Party

Could 2007's Real Publishing Story be Private Equity?

The Regan Report: Anti-Semitic or Just Semantics?

The Regan Report: Email Access Lost, What's Next

The Regan Report: Goldmans suing, publishing reactions

So What About the Mickey Mantle Book?

When Art and Military History converge

Storm Does Damage to Pacific Northwest Booksellers

World's Oldest Teenagers Get Makeovers

Scene @ Lit Mag Holiday Bash

It's Not My Fault, I Swear

Judith Regan's Coldest. Firing. Ever.

The Regan Report: Lawsuit to Come?

The Regan Report: Mainstream Media Quotes

Audiobooks star Kate Fleming dies at 41

Mommy Lit, the Sunday Styles Way

Saving Careers, No Advances at a Time

The Regan Report: "Offensive phone call" preceded firing

Inside the REGAN Reorganization

BREAKING: Judith Regan Ousted

She Is For Cookies,
That's Good Enough for Me

Say Goodbye to AOL's Book Maven

You're Gonna Hear Me on Your Radio

3 New Chancellors for Academy of American Poets

Mirchandani to Atlantic

Hely Hutchinson: Perhaps We Overspent on Celeb Books

A True Success Spawns Parody

Good Tidings for S&S

Nelson CEO Elaborates on "Editorial Standards"

Kitty Kelley Deal Raises Eyebrows

Bertelsmann: Deny First, Sell Later

Scene @ GalleyCat's Holiday Party

But Mickey Mantle Did Drink And Screw...

New Literary Fight: Crowley vs. Crichton

Strachan In at Carroll & Graf

Because beer and pretzels are super important to selling books

B&N to India; Borders to Malaysia

Bookstore Sales Fall in the Fall

WSJ Ponders the Riddle of Steel

Sarah Reidy Joins Soho Press as Publicity Director

Book Keeping with mediabistro.com

Who's Up for Dinner in Florida?

Free Online, Because You Won't Find It in Stores!

The Numbers Game Gets Even More Confusing

Vaclav Havel: Columbia University's Resident Success

Celeb Memoirs: Not Dead, Just Resting

Book TV Goes Inside the NYTBR

Seattle Most Literate City, Second Year Running

Egen Enters Final Phase at Hachette

You're Coming to Our Party, Right?

Only Six Words? How's That Work?

Cathy Fox Holstein dead at 54

OJ Book Nets Profiteers After All

Rare Writings Turn Up in Unexpected Places

Penguin Pressures Publisher of Pynchonesque Portfolio

Lagerfeld Takes Author to Court

Checking In With the Dead White Males

The Books Giving Back Adventure

Coming Soon from Our Corporate Masters!

Bleak Prospects for Bloomsbury

LA Times Considers Its Favorites

New CEO Steps In at Canada's Random House

UK: We Don't Care About Your Awards

Granta's New Direction Still Not Fixed Yet

Insert "Itsy Bitsy Spider" Joke Here

Scene @ Dawn Eden's Book Party

Scene @ Coffee House Press Poetry Night

New York picks its winners, losers

Book Biz Santa...with a twist

Scene @ The Key Book Party

Forbes Picks Richest Authors, Disappointments.

Atlas Editor Wins Poetry Prize

Pessl Bashing Migrates from Blogs to Webzines

Publishers Like to Party For the Holidays

Competing Edition of Iraq Report Published

The If/Then Clauses in Sobol/S&S Deal

Lindsay Legs Soho for Abrams

When Creative Control to Authors in Hollywood Goes Sour

Washingtonienne Sales Unmoved By Sniping

Books' High Street Xmas Prospects Not So Gloomy

Barnes & Noble Delays Filing 3Q Report

IF I DID IT Bookscan Numbers Due to Pre-Orders, not sales

Harper Lures Jennifer Barth from Holt

Battle of the Fake Holidays!

Nelson Makes Theological Demands of Authors

Penguin UK Solves Office Space Problems

More on the Touchstone/Sobol Deal

Fisketjon Searches for Novel Greatness in Nashville

Scene @ Dr. Sketchy's Burlesque Book Party

Scene @ Overlook's Thermopylae Party

Longtime LA Times Book Critic Dies

One-half of Richard & Judy in Fierce Bidding War

Adina Kahn Joins Dystel & Goderich Literary Management

Iraq Study Group Report in Second Printing

Hey, How Can You Sell a Canceled Book?

Cutler Cancels Out on MB Panel; Controversy Ensues

Varsity Letters "Relaunches" with New Curator

Iraq Study Group Report In Stores, Online

New Info: Touchstone Will Pay for Sobol Winners

Publishers, Booksellers Agree: Bet on Black

Sobol Cuts 3-Book Deal with Fireside;
Actual Books To Be Determined

Authors Leap to McEwan's Defense

Here There Be Dragons

New Series from Left Behind Authors

Like This Augusten Burroughs News Shocks You?

Will Self's Journey Into Manhattan

Inside Microsoft Book Search

Li takes home Guardian First Book Prize

NYRB Classics Launches Blog

Bibliographies aren't just for non-fiction

Chick Lit Authors Won't Be Dismissed

Christine Zika moves to Madison Park Press

Designer Classics with Manolo and Friends

Labyrinth Goes to Princeton

Paul Carr Leaves the Friday Project

Dalkey Finds New Home, Stays in Illinois

Watchmen Movie Inching Towards Reality

Forbes Bulks Up on Publishing News

Schulz Takes Charge at Harcourt

It Had to Happen: Tori Spelling's Memoir

Finally, a book that discusses the economics of publishing

Dueling Top Ten Lists

Do Blogs Sell Books? Or, Is the Sky Green?

Muhammad Ali lends his name to literacy

Steven Johnson Wants to Know Where You Live

Have Yourself a Literary Weekend

Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary

Is it Eggers' Prerogative to Change His Mind?

Marvel's Civil War Delayed Again

Authorized Iraq Study Group Report Hits Stores Wednesday

Scene @ Jura Writer's Residency Launch

Ferlinghetti Given Top French Honor

Scribner VP Leaves Publishing for Israel

Random and Penguin Wage War on Classics

Leno and NBC Sue Over Joke Books

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