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Marie Arana Leaves The Washington Post's Book World

Amazon Launches New Author Pages

A Closer Look at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group

Literary Kicks Builds Random 2008 Anthology

Twitter Storytelling

Project Gutenberg Looking for Error Correcting Volunteers

How To Bring Your Book To Book Clubs

Writers Lead List of Thinking Man's Sex Symbols

Digital Books on Christmas Morning

Will Amateur Booksellers Kill Publishing?

Harold Pinter Has Died

GalleyCat's 2008 Year in Literary Web Video

Curiously Discussing Benjamin Button

Riverhead To Publish Barack Obama Book by NY Times' Staff

Oprah Winfrey's Production Company in Court over Digital Book Technology

Authors Create Self-Guided Book Club Tours

Happy Holidays from GalleyCat!

I've Been a Good Dog, Santa!

Cats & Computer Screens: A Perennial Classic

Marley & Me's Agent Discovers Puppy Love

Nobody Puts Vegas in the Corner... Oh, Wait

Road Trip! Our Northernmost Pet Photo Yet

One Agency, Multiple LOLGalleyCat Submissions

Notice the Cat in Profound Meditation?

Now That's What We Call a Meaty Story

LOLGalleyCat Arrangement in Gray

Booker Prize Backer Had $360 Million Invested with Bernard L. Madoff

Publishers Enlist ScrollMotion in iPhone Digital Book Development

Getting Young Men To Read Again

Fictional Corruption Meets Real Life Corruption

Gordon Lish To Resume Teaching Next Summer

Looking for New Writers? Arizona Wants to Catch Your Eye

Are You Ready for Nico the Other Reindeer?

Scout and Stormy Surround Themselves With Holiday Cheer

Indie Publishing Goes to the Dogs

Wake Up! It's Time for LOLGalleyCats!

Building a Network of "Ethnic Citizen Journalists"

FishbowlLA: Jeff Goldblum for Best Actor?

Ann Beattie's Rock Star Reading

Simon & Schuster and Random House Announce Large Gains in Digital Book Sales

Horace Engdahl Resigns After Ten Years as Secretary of the Swedish Academy

CNET Editor's Self-Published Book Rejected by Apple

The Return of a GalleyCat Holiday Tradition

Tachyon's Moving Forward (Go Ahead, Physicists, Laugh)

Simon & Schuster CEO Remembers 2008 Fondly, Can't Wait for 2009

GalleyCat Readers Pick the Best Writing Music of 2008, Part Three

PublicAffairs Buys Sarah Palin Book

Lawrence Weschler's Strange MacArthur Awards Secret

Graywolf Plans "Instant Book" for Inaugural Poet Elizabeth Alexander

The First Bernard Madoff Book Deals Arrive

Free Romance Books on the iPhone

Macmillan Children's Reorg "A Long Time Coming," Says New VP

22 Jobs Cut at Random House

If You Love Your Book, Set It Free

CNET Executive Editor Defends Self-Publishing

Following Layoffs, Random House CEO Ponders Future

Books Salman Rushdie and Fred Armisen Think You Should Buy

Digital Book "Announcements" Pending at Soft Skull

Your Personal Book Shopping Assistant Is Here, Courtesy Joni Evans

GalleyCat Readers Debate HarperStudio's Non-Returnable Deal with Borders

Breaking: Poet Elizabeth Alexander To Read At Barack Obama's Inauguration

Truthdig Auctions Autographed Gore Vidal Books To Pay Authors

Film Adaptation 101

GalleyCat Readers Pick the Best Writing Music of 2008, Part Two

Reorganization Done, Random House Starts Cutting, Promoting

The Books that Lit-Blog Readers Buy

Publisher Jonathan Galassi Explains the Farrar, Straus and Giroux Restructuring

We Want No Part of Your Death Culture

18 With a Bullet: YA Author's Latest Condensed to 2-Minute Rap

Le Guin Ready to Give Hollywood One More Chance

Exclusive Video: HarperStudio Publisher Bob Miller on Book Returns

Test of the Book Stock Watch System

Does Children's Literature Need the Newbery Medal?

Amazon.com Investigation in England

Welcome to The Death of Publishing, Take Forty

Best American Short Stories To Include Online Entries

Biz Book Hub Taps Seth Godin as 2008's Best

Staff Cut at Farrar, Straus & Giroux

GalleyCat Readers Pick the Best Writing Music, Part One

64 Laid Off at Macmillan Publishing

Not Everybody's Sales Are Going Down

How About Publishing Less Stupid Books?

Publishing's Million Dollar Question: What Price E-Books?

Writers with Movie Star Patronage

Thomas Pynchon Surfs Internet for Cover Art

Could Publishing's Diminishing Be Literature's Gain?

Online Eligibilty for the Pulitzer Prize Remains Unclear

Celebrated Book Editor Carol Houck Smith Has Died

Penguin Group Publicists Break Out Their Holiday Desserts

Readers Around the World Are Lying

David Henry Hwang Honored As M. Butterfly Hits 20

Exclusive Interview: Smashwords Founder on the Publishing Crisis

October's Books Sales Down 20 Percent, Publishers Say

Melville House Book Begins on Blog

Stacking the Deck in Customer Reviews

Laura Albert Bemused As JT LeRoy Hits Prime Time

Fans & Friends Raise More Than $20K For An Author in Need

Presidential Tell-All Is Shelved

1,200 Writers Compete for Chat with Curtis Brown Agent

Book Stock Watch

Book Sales Drop at Beginning of Holiday Season

Following Staff Cuts, Texas Newspapers Share Critics

Building a Genre Book Review Index

Tribune Freelancers To Be Paid

FishbowlNY @ Michael Wolff's Book Party

Marlene Stringer Starts Her Own Agency

Reading James Frey's Gawker Comments So You Don't Have To

NPR Shutters News & Notes and Day to Day, Major Book Coverage Lost

Downsizing at Chronicle Books

$10.75 Million Settlement for Judith Regan

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Wrestling with New Novel

Hey, Art Department: Iceberg! Dead Ahead!

The Tricky Art of the Self-Destructing Poem

Authors Gather for Studs Terkel Memorial

Dracula's Draughtsman Honored in San Francisco

A Million Little Headlines Write Themselves: Frey Goes Gawk'ing

Macmillan Freezes Salaries

No New Zadie Smith Novel Until 2010?

Pricing Digital Books for Nintendo

Book by Grade School Student Turned into Film

Barack Obama and Arthur C. Clarke Claim the Most Expensive Gift Books

Ploughshares Named Top-Ranked Literary Magazine

Amazon Will Not Re-Stock Kindles for the Holidays

Exclusive Video: Foundry Agent on the Publishing Meltdown

Re-Mixing the Publishing Model

Pulitzer Prize Eligibilty Now Includes Online Journalism

Agent Peter H. McGuigan Predicts More Celebrity Books

Random House Offers Free Digital Books on iPhone

Kodi Scheer Wins $5,000 Dzanc Prize

What If Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Isn't in Breakdown?

Sci-Fi Authors, Fans Rally to Support Struggling Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: "The Ones Who Left Are the Lucky Ones"

What's New With... Lynn Rosen?

Is the Reed Biz Info Sale Winding Down?

The Best Writing Music of 2008

Book Babes Advise First Lady Laura Bush

The 25 Best Translated Books of 2008

Sony Sells 300,000 Digital Readers: E-Book Comparisons

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: Dispatches from the Front

How Facebook Could Help Publishers and Booksellers

Courage!

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: Everybody's Hurt

E-Book Romancers Set Out to Capture "New Mass Market"

It's All Fun and Games for These YA Authors

FishbowlLA: Max Ritvo's Short Story

9-Year-Old Sells Self-Help Book

iPhone Sales Climbing

More On Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Fallout

Haunted Book Party

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: "Sad Day in Orlando"

George W. Bush's Memoir Plans Revived

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: What's Going On?

Why Doubleday's Demise Is Good News for Dan Brown Fans

Chicken Soup for Your Television Set

Elmo, Maya Angelou, and Bill O'Reilly Agree: Buy a Book!

FishbowlLA: Make-A-Wish Rallies Behind Teen Poet

Literary Gift Ideas from 52 Published Authors

Book Blogger Dewey Has Died

Authors Swimming to Tina Brown's Lifeboat

Departures and Layoffs at Simon and Schuster, Too

NY Times Book Review Loves Alfred A. Knopf THIS Much

Breaking: iPhone Reader Stanza Partners with e-Book Retailer Fictionwise

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: Ann Patty, Others Cut

Random House Reorganizes; Doubleday and Bantam Dell's Pieces Given to Other Houses

Vintage Launches "Instant" Paperback on Terrorism

Exclusive Video: Patricia Cornwell on the Future of Crime Fiction

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Breakdown: "Nobody Could See This Coming"

Thomas Nelson Cuts Staff By 10 Percent

East Coast Agents Versus West Coast Agents

Putting Washington D.C. Inside the Matrix

Novelist Nam Le and Others Celebrate a "Year in Reading"

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publisher Resigns

Let Us Now Praise Famous Bloggers

Which Creative Writing MFA Produces the Most Critically-Acclaimed Writers?

Twilight Versus Y.A. "Chippies"

Good Thief Steals the Hearts of Debut Novel Jury

Gobin Stair, 1912-2008

Baby's First Book Blog

Television Writing 101

The Ethics of E-Book Piracy

Publish Your Rejection Letter

Exclusive: The Most Popular Books Among College-Aged Students

Seven Art Worlds, One Keen Observer

Thrifty Book Deals

Is Your Local Indie Bookstore Blogging?

Literary Santa Is Coming To Town

"Goth Pop Icon" a Children's Book Knockoff?

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