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Archives: June 2007

HarperCollins to Adopt Dog Novel for $1.2M?

Scene @ Saira Rao's Chambermaid Party

Yet Another Book Trailer Big Battle!

Ellison, Fantagraphics Agree to Play Nice

McCafferty Enlists Darling Fans for Promotion

UK's New PM Takes Cue from JFK

Can You Hear the Readers Sing?

The Online Buzz That Blurs Reality

This Headline Has the Word Autochthonous

From a University Press Catalog to Random House's Book Club Roster

My Lunch With Leslie and Lesley

Touring the Met with Museum's Author

In Europe, Autobiography Counts as Fiction

Anna David: Chick Lit Is Never a Compliment

Bloomsbury on the Acquisition Prowl

Publishers Waiting for Change in Fopp Status

HMV Full Year Results

Fishburne to Write/Direct Alchemist Flick

How Much Must Rumsfeld Show & Tell?

Happy Ending's Big Finale, Plus an Epilogue

The It Boy Photographic Common Denominator

Two More Publishers Join the Blogosphere

Today's Obligatory Harry Potter Roundup

Drudge, Edwards Boost YA Bookblog's Traffic

"Overblown and Overhyped", Judges Princess Di Expert

FBI Tracks Down Lost Manuscript of THE GOOD EARTH

Exhibiting the John Murray Archive

Shutterfly Acquires Children's Personalized Book Publisher

Sameday Books Looking for Acquisitions

18 Years Later, Memoirist's Girlie Mag Debut

Delivery Man Scores Another Big Package?

Dillard Says She's Done with Writing

Amy Tan Working On New Novel

Det. Munch's Meta-Mysteries @ Simon & Schuster

Another Take on Laura Albert's "Fraud"

Jan Nathan, Executive Director of PMA, Dies at 68

Aftershocks from San Diego Review Cuts

School Librarians Continue to Shield Teens from Imaginary Babydykes

Borders Tests Ideas in NJ Mall

Harry Potter Printing Firm Beefs Up Security

Scene @ Redemption Song Reading

We Want Your Tips

NEA Announces Cycle 2 Big Read Grants to 117 Communities

HMV in Talks with Virgin About Megastore Acquisition

Upping the Stakes for Tomorrow's Book Party

But What If "JT Leroy" Wasn't a Fraud?

Who'll Adopt the Next Marley & Me?

Scene @ MoCCA Art Festival

Indie Tries to Sell Out Small Press Print Run

AP Stumbles Onto This Whole Secret Phenomenon

The Jewish Book Network Puts Authors on Audition

Who Says You Can't Live Large in Publishing?

Are Book Clubs Ruining the Reading Experience?

The Image Explains It All

San Diego Paper Might Trim Book Reviews; A-List Agent Ready to Storm the Barricades

"JT Leroy" Guilty of Fraud

Heavy Hitters on James Tait Memorial Prize Shortlists

Troubles Continue for Fopp

Bowker Acquires MediaLab Solutions

Battle of the Trailer Stars!

John Shannon's Tales of the West Coast Midlist

NYPL Installs First Espresso Book Machine

Indigo in Expansion Mode

DZanc to Acquire African Fiction

Orner Awarded VCU Prize: Carnegie Medal to Rosoff

Weidenfeld & Nicholson Slashes Non-Fiction Arm

More on Waterstone's Co-Op "Scandal"

Tools of Change: iLiad's Rosy-Fingered Dawn

Oxford Exec to Google: Just Ask Us

Outrage at "Honor Killing" Spurs Anthology

Tools of Change: Plenty of Coverage

Tools of Change: Liberating Dictionaries from Print

Tools of Change: The Future of Print is Hyperlinks

More NYT Books Coverage

Albert On Trial: Split Personality Claims

Has Harry Been Hacked?

Bertelsmann Expands Further Into China

OFT mulls Pearson's Harcourt buy

Authors Guild Denounces "Dead Celebs" Bill

Ingram Partners with Microsoft Live Book Search

Wiley 4th Quarter Profit Slides

HMV Recovery Predicted

For Katharine Weber, the Book Club Came to Her

Tools of Change: Chris Anderson Will Take Your Call

Daring Co-Author Pulls Back Curtain

Tools of Change: No Print 'Til Profit

Tools of Change: "Let the Wookie Win"

Tools of Change: Early Signals

Edinburgh Book Festival: Just Like Rock Concerts

Guantanamo Prison Poets to be Published

"His Expertise Is Personal Networking & Approachability"

Could Pearson WSJ Bid Break up Company?

OJ Simpson Book on TMZ, BitTorrent

Perseus Phases Out Marlowe & Co. Imprint

HarperCollins' 5th Estate Blog Goes Mobile

Retail Slowdown for Tesco?

Bertrams and Gardners Target Independent Booksellers

Elliot Right Way Bought by Constable & Robinson

Our Orientation Interview with Brenda Bowen

Book Jacket Trends: Tattoo You II

After Four Decades, the Perfect Accessory Is Hers

Scene @ Antoine Wilson's Launch Party

Dangerous Book Inspires Copycats

Waterstone's Defends Co-Op Practices

Chandrasekaran Wins Johnson Prize

Adobe Digital Editions 1.0 Now Available

ITW Prepares for a Serial Thrill

Notes from the Party Circuit

Come to Our Book Swap Party!

Random House Revolving Door Widens Editorial and Marketing/Distribution Dichotomy

The First Book Trailer with Pre-Release Buzz

Book Jacket Trends: Tattoo You

UK Publishing Co-Op Revealed

Knighthood for Rushdie

Online Sales Dip on Retail Front

Pearson to Bid for Dow Jones?

Thalia Buys Out Karstadt

If Dad Did It, Arnelle Wanted Her Cut, But It's Fred Goldman's Book Now

Bon Jovi Book Shelved After All

Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Acquired by Rizzoli

Welcome to the Friday Trailer Battle!

She'll Wait for McEwan to Come Out on DVD

Publishers Attempt Online Marketing Jujitsu

"JT Leroy" Slapped with Fraud Lawsuit

Richard & Judy's Instant Summer Bestsellers

Read a Penguin Novel At the Salon

Union Calls for Waterstone's Meetinga

Rowling Plans Limited US Tour

Vintage UK Spiffs Up the Classics

Scottoline Moves to St. Martin's

They Think They Need to Talk About Shriver

Vonnegut Bio Moves Ahead

Cooing, Sure, But Does Romance Need Trilling?

Simon & Schuster Rolls Out their Book Video Channel

Road Trip to San Jose Next Week!

Scene @ David Pasternack's Esca Reception

Weiland Leaves Granta for The Paris Review

Petterson Wins IMPAC Prize

Bigshot Librarian: Don't Let Teh Web Make U Stoopid

Bertelsmann Launches Dutch Chain

For Bookstores, April Cruel, But Not Cruelest

More Talk About Book Reviews in Peril

Einhorn to Start New Imprint at Putnam

Scenes from the Literary Circuit

Amazon's Kindle Ready to Launch?

Oy Vey! Panned Author Counterattacks Wildly on NYTBR Letters Page

A Literary Talk Show for Your RSS Feed

Danielle Steel Hip to Today's Youth Market

The State of Chinese Popular Literature

Scene @ Playboy's "Silverstein Around the World" Party

Achebe Wins Booker International Prize

E-Rotic Indie in Tight Embrace w/S&S

Kensington Does the Marimba With Hudson

UK Publishers Feel the Manga Pinch

FirstBook Launches New Campaign to Kickstart Reading

Finding the Best Airport Bookstore

Sansom Named Communications Director for Random House UK

McSweeney's Slashes Prices to Stay in Business

Adria Bernardi Wins $20K Translation Prize

Book Reviewers Out of Touch, Blogs Blamed

Hodder Headline Drops Name, Reorganizes

About That Met Gift Shop Thing...

Jordan, the Next Generation

Rosen Tapped as UK Children's Laureate

Ebook Experiment for Scholastic and Disney

Laos Library Dedicated to HarperCollins

Howard Grossman: I Didn't Swipe Chip Kidd's T. Rex

Dwight Garner Joins the Blogosphere

Changes at Penguin Press

Manga-Style Stories for America's Young Women

Daniel Menaker Out @ Random House, Kurt Andersen In (But Not a Replacement)

Who Spiked the Water at 1745 Broadway?

Biz-Advice Author on Idol-Smashing Mission

Sales Dip in April, Still Up for Year

Mini-Scandal in Museum Bookshop

Are Serials Good for Your Publishing Health?

First Proprietary Book for Borders

Recapping Book Expo Canada

Harry Potter Publisher Claims to Strike Gold Once Again

Egmont Prepares Expansion Into Denmark

Publisher Buys Bookshops to Beat Chains

Scene @ Girls Who Like Boys... Party

Jane Green: "Chick Lit Is Here to Stay"

There's No Five-Second Rule at BookExpo

Giving Google a Taste of its Medicine

Grogan Upset Over Book of Unauthorized Newspaper Columns

The Comeback of Collectible Editions

If You Love Book Clubs, You Might Want This House

Catching Up w/the Pre-BEA Party Scene

Pearson Gets Critical Analysis

Waterstone's Denies Pay Freeze Is On

Canadian Price Discrepancies Won't Go Away

Puffin's First "Picture Book Boutique"

Stop Picking on Patricia Cornwell, Says Judge

Now We're Talking Book Trailer

Marketing the Book After the Author's Death

I Thought Book Sales Were Supposed to Skyrocket, Not Booksellers

UK Reactions on Turf War Issues

Sgt. Rock Is Going to Hate Me

Book Deals We're Catching Up With

Cheer Them On to Their Rivals

Previewing Book Expo Canada

Penguin To Launch Website By Teens For Teens

Thomas Nelson's Densely Packed Brand Nucleus

Adichie Wins Orange Prize

Where's Your Story? MFA Teacher Demands

979-prefixed ISBNs to Appear Early in 2008

Special Gift for BAM Shareholders

The Litblog Debate: Now in Stereo!

Constable Succeeds Ross as Crown VP and Publisher

Steve Ross Leaves Crown to Run Collins

'Cat Inspires Author to Experiment with Video

Gerald Nicosia Is Full of It, Daddy-O

Gunning for the Conservative Lifestyle

Cormac McCarthy Opens Up to Oprah

Let's All Cry for Authors With Big Book Deals

Jumping on the Mattress of the Book Review's Deathbed, Telling It to Get Up

Kerouac Biographer Lambasts Viking For "Vendetta"

The Engines Shoulda Held, Cap'n

July Relaunch for Borders Site

EUK Sales Up

Bertrams Merger Has Indies Seeing Red

Facts & Figures of Random House

This Must Be Philip Turner's Week

Oprah Picks Eugenides

Robert Westfield, 2007's Big Gay Novelist

Finally, a Topic A I'd Watch

Gawker Literati Shine on Manhattan

The Simple Art of Book Trailering

More BEA Links

Bestselling Authors Get Graphic - Novel, That Is

My Favoritest BookExpo America Roundup

Reed Elsevier Quits Arms Exhibitions

Lonely Planet Writer Missing in Tibet

Amazon to Increase Spending in China

"You Understand Nothing of My Work"

Jobs & Gates in Wide-Ranging Interview

His Name Is Scott, and He Is Fun, 'K?

Shomi Rebels Take on BookExpo

BookExpo: One Long Hot Blur

BEA: On the Town

BEA Day Two: Ethics in Book Reviewing

BEA: Reactions in Print

BEA: Reactions Online

Sheila Kohler Is Sorry She Dissed You

BEA Day Two: Print/Blog Convergence

Turow to Pen Sequel to Presumed Innocent

GalleyCat Goes to the Dogs

Publishers Get Into the Speakers' Bureau Game

Publishing Statistics Galore

Library of Congress Creates Ambassador to Young People's Literature

BEA Day One: Booktour.com Launch

BEA Day One: Rowell Plays to the Crowd

Gouge Away: Javits' Outrageous WiFi Fees

File Under: Funny 'Cause It's True

Ain't No Party Like a GalleyCat Party

Grisham's Latest Bestseller Slated for September

S&S and Plame File Lawsuit Against CIA

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