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Archives: August 2007

What, Are You Still Here?

Bongos and Catcher's Mitts, Put to Uses God Never Intended

Sex Advice Expert Demands Bigger Trailers

Book Parties No Longer Dead, Just Bloated

Robert Barnett's Multimillion Dollar Advance Touch

Seeking Eyeballs, Thriller Writer Turns to Cable

"The Big Read" Goes to XM Radio

Richard and Judy Focus on Kids' Books

Kerry's Hedge Fund Mistress Wants to Disappear

Could a Borders-B&N Merger Be Possible?

Waterstone's Offers Details on New Supply Plans

Channel 4 Chief Inches Closer to Borders UK Deal

B&N Will Carry If I Did It Now

25K More Copies of If I Did It: Why?

Lamott Disinvited, then Invited to Speak in Omaha

Further Ruminations on "Hot Young Author Chick Syndrome"

New Orleans Author Nearly Blows Oprah Moment

The Racial Divide of Reading

CJR Rejects Fear of a Blog Planet

Harper's Roth-Ey to London as Morgan's Desk Expands

Running with Scissors Lawsuit Settled

Hamill Finds Disturbing Similarities Between His Book and Fox TV Show

Greenspan's Buzz Kicks In 60 Minutes Before Today

Maybe We Should Watch Slunch More Closely

Publishing in China, Part I: Penguin Launches Bilingual Website & Blog

Publishing in China, Part II: HarperCollins Acquires Bestselling Series

Blackwell Sale Means Profits for Informa

Another Drib from the Clapton Memoir

Book Culture Walks Out of the Labyrinth

NBCC: "No Blogger-Critics Chosen?"

B&N Still Sees Little Interest in OJ Tell-All

Top Books Left Behind in UK Hotel Rooms

Vigilance Against Gay Penguins Remains Strong

Another Successful Edinburgh Book Festival

Quick Update on the End of the World

Literati Relive Painful Adolescence

Touring in Booktowns

Borders UK Eyed by Channel 4 Chief

Bertelsmann to Restructure Direct Group Unit

Borders Q2 Results

Denise Brown Ditches Oprah's If I Did It Show

Canada's Literary Doctor Ready for US Debut

Newsroom Assistant Lands Sunday Feature, Book Deal

How Tana French Hit the Bestseller List 3 Months Later Than Expected

Star Reporter Catches No Breaks at B&N

Cabbing Down NYC's Mean Streets

NBCC Plans Long Weekend of Self-Reflection

Random House Donates $1M to First Book

Sameday Acquisition of Countrybooks Collapses

Waterstone's Founder Named University Chancellor

Quarto Makes US Buy, Gets Hit By Returns

Beaufort Preps 125,000 First Run for If I Did It

Brown-Bagging It? Maybe There's a Prize for You

So Much for the Death of Reading

NYT Chips at Clapton Embargo

MTV's First Poet Laureate

Shriver Takes UK TV Diet to Task

Former Childhood Pals Reunite As Newfound Authors

B&N Satisfied With Online Orders, Won't Put OJ in Stores

Friends Will Tour for Halberstam's Final Opus

McCarthy Nabs UK's Oldest Literary Prize

Pearson Cleared by OFT for Harcourt Education Acquisition

Oh Noes, Peoples Stopped Reading! We Is Doomed!

This Novel Has Readers Climbing the Walls

Amazon/Humane Society Lawsuit Still Simmering

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Publishing's Whiter Shade of Pale

Tony Blair to Meet Publishers This Fall

Kids' Books Pop Up To Snare Kids

Russian Tycoons Clamor for World's Most Expensive Book

Penguin UK Goes Retro with Covers

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Sued by Potential Co-Author

Patterson Partners for Games Based on Novels

Pearson Sales Downgraded

Grace Paley Dies at the Age of 84

Goldmans, Denise Brown Face Off on Oprah

NYT Road Trips With Laura Albert

If You Like Your E-Books Smelly, Have We Got the Product for You

Liberals Bury Their Noses in More Books

S&S UK's Gordon Becomes a Literary Agent

Bertrams Merger Backed By Indie Bookseller

Borders Wants UK Deal By Autumn

Q2 Results for Books-A-Million

Department of Non-News: A Quarter of Americans Don't Read

If I Did It Publisher: It's the Real Deal

America's Readers a Pack of Bloodthirsty Ghouls

Bantam Dell Doubles Paperback Format Fun

France Shocked that Former Prez's Daughter Fictionalizes Gruesome Murder

Footprint Bought by Globe Pequot Press

No Charges for Russian Novelist Facing Libel Accusations

B&N Earnings Preview

B&N Rejects OJ Book; Borders Lukewarm

New Yorker Festival Pairs Off Literati

JK Rowling is Not Writing a Mystery

TV Talent Pool Vies for Book Humor Prize

Checking In on the Harlequin-Nascar Partnership

Going to a Town, Feelin' Like a Criminal

Book Deal For Ousted US Attorney

Memoirist's Annual Manhattan Pit Stop

Author, Panned by Blogger, Files Lawsuit

Of Course Robert Harris Isn't Writing About Tony Blair - It's Fiction!

Taylor & Francis Plans US Expansion

Borders Gets New CIO

Edges Moves Closer to Big Screen

Passing the Time with Caprice Crane

Two Denise Browns, Each With Her Own Tragedy

New Zealander Wins 1st Scottish Book Prize

Russian Fiction Writer Faces Libel Charges

Authors Pick Up Pieces After Small Publisher Bankruptcy

The Return of Isobella Jade, Again

Despite Adversity, Hilma Wolitzer Keeps Writing

Paper of Record Takes Note of OJ Book

One School's Way to Combat Rising Textbook Prices

LongPen To Debut in Bookstores

Tesco and Asda Under Competition Commission Scrutiny

Will 2nd Weekend Be the Charm?

Over-Analysis of Comedy Is, Itself, Comedic

Viking Penguin Unveils "Book Club" Catalog

Author Pretends to Be On Oprah, Gets Called On It

Antarctic Photographer Wins IPA Book Prize

Blair Picks Barnett to Broker Book Deal

Scene @ Blood Passion Launch Party

Book Publishing Made Sweeter The Second Time Around

Scene @ Duck Duck Wally Party

Sales Jump After the Author Dies

Egmont Guns for US Kids' Market

Rona Jaffe Prize Announces 2007 Winners

Profit Spike for Random House UK

Sierra Club Partners with Counterpoint

New Publisher Of OJ Simpson Book Offers Details

Judith Regan Still Attached to OJ Book Gossip

Does Your Book Trailer Have an '80s Cult Band?

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Talk About Dangerous Books for Boys (& Girls)

OJ Book Deal Met With Resounding Meh

Stephen King Mistaken for Book Vandal

Puff the Magic Dragon, the Book Prepares to Launch

Bangladeshi Author Attacked, Then Arrested

Costumed Characters Help Spain Promote Reading

Sainsbury Aims for Major Book Growth

SSE Names Carl Raymond Associate Publisher

B&N Shares Increase After Founder Reveals Stock Buy

Publishers Downplay the Menace of Paper Cuts

Dzanc Acquires OV Books

Fred Goldman Is Not Self-Publishing OJ's Confession

Somehow I Don't See This Catching On With Amtrak

Folksinger Bio Is Labor of Love

Scene @ The Great Man Launch Party

The Philosophy of a Bestseller

HarperCollins Partners with iPhone for Book Excerpts

US Steps Up Fight Against Chinese Piracy

Beaufort Snaps Up If I Did It

BREAKING: Beaufort Lands The OJ Book

She Provides Celebs With Beach Reading

OJ Publisher Announcement Delayed till Tomorrow...For Now

Nat'l Book Critics Circle Retreats into Past

Blog Sank Teeth into Vampire Book/Film Deal Story

Robert Gray Wins New Yorker Caption Contest

Should Amazon Sell Dogfighting Materials?

Have Fun Storming the Castle!

Celebrity Authorship with Group Effort

Ravenous Co-Publisher Shrugs Off Insult

Finnish Booksellers Get in on Co-Op Game

Borders Wants to Make An Employee an Author

Profile Reports Best-Ever Results

Borders UK Splits Books Teams

WHSmith Beats Analyst Expectations

Literary Dispatches from the Women's Magazines

Who's Publishing If I Did It Now?

Bookstores Still Not Catching Retail Wave

When Successful Authors Can't Get Published At Home

Hollywood Turns to Literati for Franchises

A Late Straggler to the GalleyCat Army

WWII Is Hot, Hot, Hot

Running the Numbers: Stardust vs. Ladyhawke

Calder Picks Authors and Sticks With Them

Publisher Plays Hide and Seek Game in London

God Losing to Skeptics in Battle for Book Sales

BISG and Green Press Initiative Tackle Environmental Issues in Publishing

China Has Highest Online Book Purchasing Rate

Gay Talese's Ordinary, Conventional Marriage

The Gay KISS Comic That Never Was

If the WSJ Says Stephenie Meyer is the Next Big Thing, It Must Be True

How Retailers Are Handling the Booker Prize

Scene @ Career and Corporate Cool Launch

Wobbly News on the Baker & Taylor Front

The Angus & Robertson/Australian Publisher Fight

WHSmith to Bid on Borders UK Stores?

Granta Joins Independent Alliance

Wasserman Opens Up on Truthdig Gig

Hachette Continues Exec Hiring Spree

Another "Unexpected" Publishing Success Story

Steve Wasserman Goes Blogwild for Lit Crit

Settlement Reached for Lost Buck Manuscript

The Bookshelf at Your Fingertips, Literally

Wooden Personality Dominates Stace's Latest

Book Fair Snubbed By Spanish Writers Over Language Row

Quercus Confident Despite First Half Losses

Orion Injects Music Into Rebus Marketing Campaign

Profits Fall But Sales Up for HarperCollins Q4

Dzanc Hires Publicist & Art Director

Harry Potter Ending Causes Consternation for Bookies

Starbucks Selection #3: Oral History

Who's Trying to Derail Sharkey's Machine?

NYT Gets Its Freaks Online

TNR's Wood Moves to New Yorker

A Year After the Booker, Kiran Desai Reflects

Booker Prize Bulletpoints

Teen Auteur Crafts Winning Book Ad

Don't Look for Miles Franklin Prize Winner in Aussie Bookstores

Travel Publisher Plugs Guides Into Mobiles

Paglrave Macmillan to Partner with BFI

GalleyCat Makes Its BBC Debut

The Longlist is a Man Booker's Dozen

The Dawn of the Pass/Fail Focus Group

Pam Houston: Not Making It Up As She Goes Along?

CIA Unhappy with Legacy of Ashes

Widgets, Widgets Everywhere

Recovered Buck Manuscript Up for Big Fight

Surprise! One More LOLGalleyCat

Remembering the Bookseller to the Stars

Text Message, Buy a Book

Dangerous Book for Boys To Be Filmed

UK Retail Sales Down in July

Beth Ford Tapped for Hachette COO Job

NYT Unmasks Fake Steve Jobs

See, Not Everyone in Publishing Vacations in the Hamptons

New Website Instantly Tracks Meaningless Amazon Rankings

Nation Books Publicist Now At New Press

One Aspiring Author, 10 Weeks, 290 Pages

British Council Ripped for Pouring Energies Into Middle East

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Kennel...

Amazon Offers Early Galleys, Online Payments

A Dog Tries for a Sheepish Grin

Bloomsbury Spends Big Money for Financial Database

Small Q2 Losses for Audible

Reading Our Way Through the Dog Days

Brush Up Your Austen

So Much for the Industry's Famed Collegiality

The June Numbers Are In, Still Up

Morgan Spurlock, Eat Your Heart Out

She Left Out the High Alcoholism Rate

Yes, Virginia, Harry Potter Changed the Publishing Industry

Best Literary Retreat Drama Ever

Bookstore Sues Over Paula Deen Visit

Walker Doubles Picture Book Output

GalleyCat Army Bunks Down for the Weekend

The Bookstore as Babysitter

Australasian Book Chain Re-Enters Online Retail

In the UK, More Means More

It's Simic's World, We Just Live in It

She's Run Away With the Yachting Type

Andrew Sullivan's Agent Needs Maalox

Austenmania Goes Stratospheric Starting Now

Bob & Ted & Liz (& Malice?)

Of Course Jane Friedman Would Think the Book Business is "Healthy"

B&N's Upscale Erotica Suppliers

Audiobooks, Not Blogs, Killing Literature Dead

Boy Wizard Causes Big Trouble in Literary China

Even More on the Espresso Book Machine

Musicians Design Book Covers for Penguin

Cambridge UP to Pulp Book on Saudi Banker

Pensive GalleyCat Is... Pensive

Simic Named New Poet Laureate

No Word Whether the LongPen Will be Used

Increasead Indigo Revenue Slashes Q1 Losses

Harlequin Sees Small Increase in Q2

JT Leroy "Fraud" Tab Raised by $350K

Book Keeping: Bouncing Back from Rejection

NZ Prizewinners Soon in US Bookstores

Verso Posts Record $394K Profit for '06

Vote for Robert Gray!

Talese Takes on Oprah: Here's the Footage!

The IF I DID IT Saga Continues

GalleyCat Dogs Eschew Poker for Literature

Introducing the GalleyKittens!

The NYT Discovers the Skinny Bitches After Everybody Else

Patricia Wood wins the Publishing Lottery

Nina, Dollie and Cutie: Three More GalleyCats

Fopp Name Adopted by HMV

S&S Crows About 2nd Quarter Gains

Wolters Kluwer Happy about Q2 Results, Too

New Chief for Penguin India

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