Archives: November 2007
Book Sales Might Be Rising, But Book Jobs? Not So Much
Dateline Reykjavik: Getting Settled In
Beschloss's New Book Deal? That's Old News!
Scene @ Louisa McCormack's Book Party
I Have Stepped Out Briefly...
Philip Levine Feted Tonight at Cooper Union
Jack Romanos Has a Posse
September: Another Month of Rising Book Sales
Warning: Lots of Violence, All of It Gratuitous
Edgar-Winning Charles Ardai Ineligible for Edgar?
Dozens of Weird Books, Collected Under One Cover
Prolonging the Deathly Hallows Afterglow
The New Small Talk: She Does It So Awfully Well
mediabistro.com's Throwing a Party for Nina Burleigh
Our Exit Interview with Jack Romanos
Meg Cabot Is Ruining the Classics (with apologies to Spike Jones)
Nat Geo Gets Updike Talking Dinosaurs
Eye-Catching New Sci-Fi Covers from England
Are Paperback Readers Paying for Discounts on Kindle Fodder?
Situation Wanted: When Bulfinch and Craigslist Collide
A Special Holiday Discount From mediabistro.com's UnBeige
Get Ready for the NYCIP Book Fair
First Glimpse of 2008's Solomon Kane Movie
"New-York Ghost" Busted: Times Unmasks Zine Editor
Gay Critics Brand Brokaw's '60s Straight and Narrow
Marvel, DC Team Up Against Digital Bootleggers
Kindle Story Isn't Just in the Tech
Bells Are Ringing: Book Community Weddings
Yes, Yes, Publishing Is Debased, By All Means, Go On...
Another Los Angeles Indie Sounds a Warning Cry
The Kindle's Ugly; Can I Customize It, Please?
Charles Saatchi to the 101st Power
Happy Thanksgiving!
Don't Throw the Kindle on the Woodpile Just Yet
Catching Up with Last Week's Parties
Scene @ SFWA Fall Reception
Regan vs. HarperCollins et al: Would She Throw the Election?
A Pitch Letter Full of Overblown Hype? Shocker!
Good News for Newspaper-Based Book Reviewing
Putting the Kindle in Historical Perspective
Scene @ Housing Works' "Only Connect" Reading
Scene @ Shooting War Launch Party
Bookvideos.TV No Longer S&S-Exclusive
T-Shirts Are to Sociology As Legs Are to Chick Lit: Discuss
Readers Chime In on the Kindle's Specs
How To Talk About Book Parties You Haven't Attended
American Literature's Savior Now Up for Auction
Scene @ Regret the Error Launch Party
Apparently Karl Rove Is At Penguin
The Blogosphere Reacts: Kindle Changes Everything
Chuck Norris Tells America How It's Gonna Be
Amazon Hopes You'll Pay to Read Blogs
Regan vs. HarperCollins et al: Waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Jessica Seinfeld: "I Didn't Need to Do This Book"
Flammable Author Refuses to Be Silenced or Pigeonholed
Cory Doctorow Adds Comics to His Free Distribution Zone
Rebecca Donner Makes Her Broadway Debut
Amazon Unveils the Future of E-Books
America's Manga Mentor Lectures on Astro Boy
Planting Trees to Offset Ken Follett's New Fortune
A Peek Inside Chronicle's "Black Box"
Genre Writers, Standing By Their Hollywood Brethren
Nine Writers Receive $50K "United States Artist" Fellowships
The Nicole Brown Simpson Book That Never Was
Louisiana Authors Come Together for CultureFest
A Bit of Nat'l Book Award Trivia, Semi-Resolved
Scene @ Secret New York Launch Party
21st Annual New York Book Fair This Weekend
Scene @ Wednesday Night's Readings
Hachette's Team-Building Week Continues
Bret Easton Ellis Ain't Quite Melville Yet
Rosie Pitches Bella Abzug Bio to Young Feminists
Don't Write Western Civilization Off Just Yet
Friday Morning Book Video: Tastes Like Cuba
Amazon's E-Book Device Ready for Holiday Shopping?
Scene @ National Book Awards Ceremony
Small Town Bookseller Bullied by College Muckety Muck
An Embarassment of Literary Riches in Manhattan Tonight
What's At Stake In the Harry Potter Lawsuit
Our Culture Either Has or Hasn't Fallen Apart, Take Your Pick
E-Commerce Outlets Spared Sales Tax Wrangle
Writers Supporting Writers, As Strike Continues
Meet Your 2007 National Book Award Winners
What Passes for National Book Award Gossip
Regan vs. HarperCollins et al: Quick Update
The Express Line Between Doubleday and Hachette
The Uncanny Timing of Regan vs. HarperCollins et al
If You Aren't Going to the National Book Awards...
Oprah Taps Ken Follett for Book Club
Marvel Offers Limited Access to Superhero Inventory
Regan vs. HarperCollins et al: Cast Your Vote!
New York Taxmen Want Their E-Commerce Cut
Regan vs. HarperCollins et al: Of Course, You Realize This Means War
Judith Regan: The GalleyCat Crib Sheet
New York Is Book Country, And To Hell With Brooklyn
Handicapping the National Book Award for Fiction: Not That Hard
More Doom and Gloom, Inspired By You Kids Today
Salon To J.K. Rowling: Get Over Yourself
Harlequin's Giving Away Short Stories Online
Self-Publisher's Travails: Cautionary... or Inspirational?
[Meta] RSS Users, Please Stand By
The Futurist in the NYT Attic
Fake Steve Jobs Professes His Love for Macs
After All the Suffering That Went Into Our Dumb Atlas, You'd Better Enjoy It
The Future Looks Bright (If You're Already a Star)
Your Take on the New, Ad-Supported Borders
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Fans Underwrite a Travel Feature from SF Author
Your Daily Portent of Doom and Gloom
Mendelsohn Wins French Literary Prize on Unanimous Vote
Oxford Designates "Locavore" Word of the Year
Techies Find "4-Hour" Man Strangely Compelling
Today's Visit to Borders Is Brought to You By...
Unspoken Truce Keeps Manga Subculture Flourishing
Scene @ The Coldest Winter Premiere
Norman Mailer, 1923-2007
Norman Mailer: A YouTube Selection
Do Your Copyeditor a Favor: Use Courier
Self-Published Fantasty Epics, Ghostwriters, Scammy Agents, and Plagiarism: It's a Literary Perfect Storm!
Delayed Royalties: A Real Problem? And If So, Is It Deliberate?
Keep Your Eye on the Observer's Book Guy
Wolf Totem Takes Man Asian on Eve of US/UK Debut
The Pipe Dreams of the Aspiring Writer
Anonymous Agent Says Royalties Flowing Too Slow
"Advice Goddess" Sells McGraw-Hill on Her War Against Bad Manners
Even the Dalai Lama Needs a Platform
Building a Book Campaign Without An Author
Chastity Advocates Ready to Talk It Out for the Cameras
Regnery's Ex-Publisher Wonders What Fuss Is About
Rudy Rucker's Two-Fisted Creative Prowess
Black History Month Gets a YA Makeover in 2008
Laura Zigman Joins HealthCentral.com as "Expert Patient"
Blogging About a Book About Book Blogs
Training the Next Generation of Conspiracy Nuts
The Book Babes Have a Book Deal
Digital Books Won't Knock Paper Off the Shelf
Southern Authors Banding Together, Online and Off
Cyberpunk's Godfather Keeps His Fame in Perspective
Even New Directions Has Book Trailers Now
Penguin Prevails In Suit Over Parker's Verse
Fleeting Encounters Inspire Graphic Short-Shorts
More Thoughts on the Eagle Publishing Lawsuit
Your Thoughts on Dual-Format Publishing
Anti-Stoning Anthology Extends Deadline for Submission
Another Brick in the Wall
Whither the Short Story, One More Time
The Plight of the Beleagured Book Review Editor
Your Thoughts on the Eagle Publishing Lawsuit
A Sneak Peek at the New Amazon.com
Eagle Accused of Short-Changing Authors on Royalties
Elizabeth Hay Takes Canada's Giller Prize
Scene @ Shirley MacLaine's Book Party
Steve Erickson Flickers Back Into View
NYTBR: So Much For That Liberal Media
Oprah's Inadvertent Thing for Fake Memoirs
Happiness in Libraries Is Entirely a Matter of Chance
Picador UK Embraces Simultaneous Hard/Soft Publishing
Brace Yourself for Sudden IMPAC
Your Tuesday Morning Book Trailer: The Kept Man
"Obscene Comic" Trial Back @ Square One, Again
Scene @ Feminist Press 37th Anniversary Gala
Striking Writers Still Have Options for Writing
Pit Stops on the Road to Damascus
We're Trivializing Literature, Brick by Brick
Romance Editors Rally Around Stricken Author
Scene @ National Press Club Book Fair
SharedBook Enters the Web 2.0 Cookbook Market
Don't Let the Pink Cover Faze You
Come Party with mediabistro.com and Jeffrey Yamaguchi
New Adventures in Lit Crit Neologism
Bezos: Just Trying to Keep the Customer Satisfied
Jessica Seinfeld PR Gloss Kicks Into Overdrive
At What Cost Will Content Become Free?
Good Lord, Is It NaNoWriMo Again Already?
Only 1,729 James Frey Readers Upset Enough to Demand Refund
Scene @ Texas Book Festival
Scene @ Last Thursday's Parties
I Stretched With a Zombie
Sometimes, Commercial Flop <> Financial Loss
After Much Editorial Abuse, One Agent's Polite Response
Your Call: "Project Freeze Out" Likely a Crock
Who Would You Trust With Your ARCs?
People Are So Reading Books Still
They're Just Not That Into You; or, Agents' Worst Suspicions Confirmed
Pat Conroy Doesn't Like It When You Ban His Books
I Believe The Children Are Our Future
Everybody Hates Somebody Sometime (Often, An Agent)
Gawker Book Sales Stuck Below 1,000 Copies
Scott Adams Learns Not to Mess With Fans' Bookmarks
After the Resentment Comes Out, the Finger Pointing Begins
Scene @ WNBA 90th Anniversary Celebration
EW Blogger Can't Get Past the Title
Rowling: Only I Hold the Keys to Potter-ville
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