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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
Scribner PR Chief Turns Indie Filmmaker
Snakes on a Plane Finally Snags a Prize
This Miss Cleo's the Real Deal
Dolby's Imprint at Random House UK is Named
University Press Try Out New Models
Finally, We Get to Run a Blind Item
South African Publishing Merger Questioned
Hodgman Hops from Holt to Houghton
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?
Shaking Up University Publishing
Reed Pondering Acquisition Options
Thomson Learning Changes Name to Cengage
Waterstone's Changes Buying Calendar
Bennett, Simonoff Promoted at Janklow & Nesbit
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
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
Her Novel Is Out, But Not Quite Out
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
Lonely Planet Writer's Body Found in Tibet
Piatkus Reveals Reasons for Selling to Little, Brown UK
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
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?
Scene on the Potter Party Circuit
The Best Deathly Hallows Fakeout Ever
Saudi Arabia Is Having a Literary Explosion, Too
Opening Day HP7 Sales: 8.3 Million
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
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?
I For One Welcome Our New Corporate Overlords
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
Dorothy Parker Anthology Lawsuit Trial Begins
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?
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: 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
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
Too Much Fiction Warps a Kid's Mind
Random House UK's Promised Patterson Blitz
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
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
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
Joint PN/PW Dailies for Frankfurt Book Fair
Teen Website Launched by The Reading Agency
Novel Writing Made Simple (and Semi-Nude)
Borders Introduces Polish Section
How Kathleen Woodiwiss Changed Romance
Could Public Libraries Launch In This Market?
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
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
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
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
