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Archives: July 2007

Keith Richards Settles On Little, Brown

Temporary Head for Houghton Mifflin's Trade Division

Cannon Named Editor-at-Large at Ballantine

NYT Sends Iraq War Novelist to Berlin

Her Book Tour Is Making Waves

Scribner PR Chief Turns Indie Filmmaker

Snakes on a Plane Finally Snags a Prize

This Miss Cleo's the Real Deal

Another Cat Who Wants to Edit

Dolby's Imprint at Random House UK is Named

University Press Try Out New Models

Finally, We Get to Run a Blind Item

Sales Boost for EUK

South African Publishing Merger Questioned

Hodgman Hops from Holt to Houghton

A Contracts Manager Tells All

Birkerts Pans Blogs (Shocked, I Tell You!)

Nan Talese Slams Oprah, Stands by Frey

A Sneak Peek at 2008's Iron Man (DENIED!)

Equal Opportunity: GalleyCat's Canine Corps

The Postmortem Robert Ludlum Cottage Industry

Amazon a Bestseller Across the Pond, Too

Bob and Trout Join the GalleyCat Army

Scene @ J.A. Konrath's Pizza Party

Bloomsbury Stays Optimistic About Post-Potter Fortunes

Reed Hopes For A Quick Dump of Riverdeep Stock

Sluggish Dollar Affects Penguin Results

Crown Forum's Publicist Switches to Harper

Haven't Summer Hours Kicked In Yet?

GalleyCat Goes to the Dogs

Shaking Up University Publishing

Reed Pondering Acquisition Options

Thomson Learning Changes Name to Cengage

Waterstone's Changes Buying Calendar

Small Increase for Lagardere

Bennett, Simonoff Promoted at Janklow & Nesbit

Goodbye, Comfy Seating

Watchmen Cast in Time for Comic-Con

Obligatory Harry Potter Roundup

Hey, Death-Eaters: Leave Those Kids Alone!

Bestselling Kids' Books Spark Language Debate

Counterpoint Fills Out Its Starting Roster

AMS Wants B&T To Pay Up

Now That's a GalleyCat Staredown!

Penguin UK Jumps on BzzAgent Bandwagon

Dymocks Ponders Bid for Borders Stores Down Under

Reed On Track for Further Growth

The Ames/Davidson Literary Fight Night

Also Scene @ Ames v. Davidson

Her Novel Is Out, But Not Quite Out

Jonah Hex Set for Big Screen

Even Cats Can't Wait to Read Deathly Hallows

Scene @ Gone to the Crazies Launch

Karin Slaughter and Oni Press Join Forces for New Imprint

People Really Want to Buy Keith Richards' Memoir

Court Takes the Stand in Penguin Trial

Balliett Bolts for Hyperion

Lonely Planet Writer's Body Found in Tibet

Piatkus Reveals Reasons for Selling to Little, Brown UK

Big Gains for Amazon in Q2

Telecom Invests Heavily in Comic Books

What Are We Going To Do About the Gender Salary Divide?

Kinky Sci-Fi Epic Returns from Limbo

Scene @ Every Crooked Pot Launch Party

Superheroes to Fight Cold War on DVD

Even More HP7 Stats

Everything You Wanted To Know About Czech Publishing

Wholesale Merger Provisionally Approved by Competition Commission

Icelandic Publishing House Mulling Over Share Reclamation

Samedaybooks is Transaction-Happy

Authors At the Workplace to Read, Not Work

NPR Notices Something's Up with Book Reviews

A Second Sneak Peek at the Vintage Classics

New Technology Lets Readers Create Their Own Books

So Was There Some Kind of Book About A Kid Named Harry Released The Other Day?

Little, Brown UK Buys Piatkus

Scene on the Potter Party Circuit

Riverdeep, Mergers High

The Best Deathly Hallows Fakeout Ever

Saudi Arabia Is Having a Literary Explosion, Too

Opening Day HP7 Sales: 8.3 Million

Got a (Short) New York Story?

Chinese Lit Has Its Day

Longlist for "Asian Booker"

New Publishing House for Literature in Translation

Indie Publisher Ready to Rock, Again

Barter Economy Sweeps Book World By Storm!

A Glimpse of Stocking Scandalizes Romance Writers, Fans

HP-1: Getting the Party Started

HP-1: The Queue Begins in Earnest

Plame's Suit Dismissed, Fair Game Still on Track

French Tabloid Scandalized by Imaginary Shoplifting

HP-1: Asda Prices HP7 at 5 pounds

Pelosi to Pen Memoir for Doubleday

Borders Picks Two New VPs

Orion Realigns

Scholastic Reports Small Earnings Gain

Damn Right Jane Austen Got Rejected

DK Partners with Gather.com for Parenting Site

We Love to Talk About Harry Potter, But, Please, Don't Tell Us Anything About Deathly Hallows

Stable With Modest Growth, Indeed!

Did a PW Editor buy an Embargoed Copy of HP7?

Minneapolis News Chain Closes Shop

HP-2: Spoilers, Embargos, All That Jazz

Hachette Unharmed by Grand Central Explosion

Industry Insists It Will Survive Without Harry

That Old Literary Experiment With an Austen Twist

Atlantic and Plum Form Summer Reading Partnership

HarperCollins and MySpace Team Up for Teens

Guess Michiko Downloaded HP7 Off the Internet, Too

A Bulk Email Snafu? What Is This, 1997?

Finally, FSG Gets a New Home

Wainwright Goes to Crown

I For One Welcome Our New Corporate Overlords

HP-4: The Daily Roundup

Next Time, I'm Just Writing the Book Myself

HarperCollins' Jeanette Perez Now Full Editor

Steve Almond Anticipates Your Every Criticism

Unbridled Books Hiring Spree Continues

Fake Writer Re-emerges from Obscurity, Full of Contempt

Possibly the Best Harry Potter Parody Ever

HP-3: BA Slams Potter Discounts

Reed Elsevier, Pearson Shares Fall

Another Borders Executive Departs

HP-4: Of Course It Leaked, And Maybe That's Not So Bad

Asda and Bloomsbury Make Up

HP-4: And Yet More Links

Dorothy Parker Anthology Lawsuit Trial Begins

Penguins Are the New Dilbert

HP-4: Bloomsbury and Asda at War

A Campaign in Trouble as a Pub Date Nears

What If Bloggers Had Old-Media Budgets?

HP-4: Partial Manuscript Online?

All the Prestige of Publishing Fiction Online Without the Burden of Excessive Intellectual Property Rights

GalleyCat is "On the Money"

Welcome Back, Potter: Ron Weighs In

Russian Bertelsmann Exec Slain By Own Blade

Chinese Distributor and Bookseller in Possible Merger

Bookstores Just Can't Catch a Break

Harcourt Bought by Houghton Mifflin

Stepping Off the Promotional Merry-Go-Round

Your National Lampoon Is in My Nation

Latina Lit Feud: "Not Everything's About You"

HP-5: Roundup for the Readers

HP-5: Publishing-centric Roundup

No Chance of Evanovich/Cannell Collaboration

Fadiman Finds Happiness At Large...

Talk to the Animals for Publishing Succcess

Avalon's Auerbach Takes Over Kensington PR

Beyond the Fringe Presses

Now You Can Spend Your Offshore Account Money At A Bookstore

Enroll Your Pet in the GalleyCat Army!

Private Equity Sniffs Around Borders Stores Down Under

Take That, Becks: Ronaldo Signs Book Deal

GalleyCat Raids mediabistro.com Closet

Film Mogul Who Beat "JT" in Court Wants His Million

Cold Tree Branches Out into More Self-Pub Areas

Rubenfeld Stays with Headline, Moves to Riverhead

HP-8: The Friday Roundup

Too Much Fiction Warps a Kid's Mind

Random House UK's Promised Patterson Blitz

All the Nudes Unfit to Print

Don't Make an Art Director Break Out Her Portfolio

Publisher Encourages Staff To Leave Office!

Scene @ Harper's Pre-Thrillerfest In-House

Warner Bros. Tags Septimus Heap As Next Film Franchise

Carter to Pen Bio On Mother

Indigo Outperforms Amazon.ca

OFT Clears Advertising Guidelines for Bertelsmann Book Clubs

"Invest in the Maximum Potential": Fortier on Book PR

Judith Regan, Tabloid Gossip Perennial

Re-Evaluating the Latina Author Tag: Round 2

New York Brings Reviewer On Staff

Justin Cronin Bloodsucks Big Money from Ballantine

New Business Paradigm Built Around Cat's Tail

Borders Announces its Next Proprietary Book

Scene @ Sin in the Second City

UK Booksellers Urged to Ban 'Racist' Tintin Book

Further Pricing Woes in Canada

Book Clubs Now For Kids, Too

MediaBay Shuts Down Operation

Authors Spar Over Latina Label

FSG's Brand Alterations: Knotty But Nice

Career Opportunities: Cambridge Needs Assistants!

Book Keeping: We Love Dirty Laundry

HP-10: Profiling Harry's US Editor

NYT Discovers Water For Elephants After Everybody Else

ESPN Blows Debut of First Miniseries

Faulks Confirmed as Author of Centenary Bond Novel

Web 2.0 Publishing Roundup

Joint PN/PW Dailies for Frankfurt Book Fair

Teen Website Launched by The Reading Agency

Novel Writing Made Simple (and Semi-Nude)

Reilly Leaving Bertrams

Borders Introduces Polish Section

How Kathleen Woodiwiss Changed Romance

Could Public Libraries Launch In This Market?

Doug Marlette, 1949-2007

Clinton To Publish New Book in September

'Eccentric' Owner of Other Times Books to Hang it Up

Steve Ross's Plans for Collins

Draw Up the Standard "Rich and Famous" Contract

Party On, Garth! Stein Signs with HarperCollins

Former Bookspan Exec Lands @ DMA

Shelfari Moves In On Facebook Pages

Borders Gets In On the Mobile Game

Investment Management Firm Takes Minority Stake in Borders

Arac de Nyeko Takes the Caine Prize

Knopf Names Dobrowolski Assistant Manager, Domestic Rights

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss Dies at 68

Dorothy Parker Lawsuit Turns Full Vicious Circle

Designer Adds Digital Flash to Printed Page

Unbridled Taps Ex-Random Rep for Sales

Camel Bookmobile Hits English Countryside

Gibson To Take Second Life Plunge

DC Moves New Talent Showcase Online

The New York Times Finally Meets Hipster Librarians

Key West Loves Hemingway's Cats More Than Bush Administration

Presumably The Hat Can Be Left On

Could Sebastian Faulks Be Authoring the Centenary Bond Novel?

HP-12: Tighter Security and a "Save Harry" Petition

NEA Extends Doom & Gloom to Teen Readers, Too

"GalleyCat Is the New Pink"

Fopp Report: Individual Stores May Be Rescued, But Not Whole Chain

Pearson Boss Falls Four in UK Media List

Marvel Team-Up: Hulk, Ant-Man, Old Spice?

10 Weeks, 50 States, 200 Bookstores

BOO! Lamest Superman Comic Never Published

'Cats to Judge Book Trailer Contest

HP-15: The Friday Roundup

Dutton's Brentwood to Stay Put

Be Careful Who You Write About, Part One

Be Careful Who You Write About, Part Two

Department of Duh: Audiobooks Could have Larger Market Share

Independent Bookstore Gets Major UK Marketing Campaign

Growth for Independent Alliance

HP-16: Printing Plant Keeps Mum on Potter

"Lazy Brit Writer" Not Such a Bad Chap

Closing Down the Heritage Book Shop

Heaven Forbid "We Lose Our Own Address"

Nobel Prize Winner Debuts New Novel Online

Lewis Shiner Moves Short Fiction Online

Couldn't Get Away For the Long, Long Weekend?

Las Vegas Too Busy for 2010 BookExpo

Some Guys Have All the Luck: WSJ's Sit-Down with Jackie Collins

Career Opportunities: Kid Lit Exec Editor

The Fopp Report: Publishers Last in Line

Sameday Eyes Possibility of Book Acquisition

Transworld Launches Ireland Division

Lazy Brit Writer Hurls Limp Invective at Yank Critic

Lambda Seeks Funds to Nurture Next-Gen LGBTQ Lit

Obligatory Padma Lakshmi-Salman Rushdie Divorce Post

HP-18: Inquiry Into Price Wars

This 4th of July, MAD TPs the White House

Every Time You Ban a YA Book, You Make The Angels Cry

Let The Web Be Your Travel Agent

Newmarket Films To Adapt Richmond Novel

HP-18: Now With Its Own Computer Virus

Fopp Cuts 700 jobs

OFT Confirms Investigation Into Pearson Acquisitions

Goldman Family Gets Rights to OJ Book

C-SPAN Relaunches Book TV Site

Sci-Fi Author Welcomes Roleplaying Spinoffs

A Room Of Her Own, And $50,000

HP-19: The Cultural Phenomenon

"Cop Lit" Takes Center Stage in France

Behind the Music: Metal Assassin

93-Year-Old Memoirist Hits Bestseller List, With a Spring in His Step

Fopp Goes Under; Virgin Reportedly Tried to Save Company

HP-19: Effect on Children's Books Sales

Merger Makes Birlinn Largest Scottish Publisher

Hotels Are Getting Into Book Clubs, Too

PFD Agents Says No to Outside Sale

Murray Joins DeFiore & Company

Meredith Cuts Books Division

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