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Archives: January 2009

John Updike, Irish Pornographer?

Authors Respond To the WaPo Book World Closure

Spoon Lead Singer Rocks the Book Party Crowd

Memorial Services for John Leonard, Ellen Miller

AvantGuild: This Agent Keeps Pitching After Deals Are Done

Small Presses Lead Digital Push

John Grisham's Law School Confusion

To Brand or Not To Brand

Amazon Sales Rise 18 Percent in 4Q

Biz Book Community Bonds Over 800-CEO-READ

Viking Buys Author Danielle Trussoni's First Novel

Anthology of Great Zombie Literature

Neil Jordan To Direct Neil Gaiman Book

Cell Phone Novelist Wins $1,000

Meet Benjamin Moser, Harper's New "New Books" Columnist

Stephenie Meyer Continues To Avoid Leaked Sequel

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Agent Scores E-Book Deal

Words Are Not Enough to Express the Loss

Jane Austen Versus Zombies

Vanessa Mobley To Leave Penguin Press

Twitter Tributes To John Updike

Movable Type Literary Group Closes Two Deals

Book World To Cease Stand-Alone Publication

HaperCollins Introduces Voluntary Retirement Program

86 Percent of Japanese High Schoolers Read Cell Phone Novels

Agent Auctions His College Classmate's Novel

Molly Ringwald's Book Reviewing Career

Expert Predicts February Release of Amazon Kindle 2

Novelist John Updike Has Died

How President Barack Obama's Book Was Rejected

Rebecca Saletan Moves To Riverhead

Three More Editors Laid Off at Publishers Weekly

Criticas Magazine To Close

Molly Ringwald Signs Book Deal

Paparazzi Shot Duplicated on Covers

Neil Gaiman Wins Newbery Medal

Sara Nelson Laid Off at Publishers Weekly

Twin Peaks Episodes Online, But Not the Books

Self-Promotion in the Publishing Recession

Author Allows Book Pirates To Use Her Work

NBCC Announces Book Award Finalists

Depression or Economic Springboard? It's Up to You

Tips for Making It in the Freelance World

eHarmony Asks HarperOne for Relationship Advice

Novelist Graham Joyce To Write for Doom Video Game Sequel

Layoffs At DC Comics

Are Female Memoirists Reviewed Unfairly?

A Literary Dispatch from Inauguration Central

Publishers Assess the Damage from November

Are You Ready for the Year of the Ox?

Cambridge University Press Lays Off 160 Employees

Six Finalists for £50,000 Warwick Prize Announced

Columbia Journalism Review Launches Book Review

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Exclusive Conversation with Novelist Charles Bock

Ongoing Reader Debate: Why Are E-Books So Expensive?

Oxford University Press Lays Off 60 Employees

HarperCollins Signs Three Books from Manuscript Website

What Happens When NYC Is No Longer Book Town?

Alloy Entertainment To Buy 12 New Books A Year

Sarah Palin Gets Serious About Selling a Book

Critics Petition To Preserve the Washington Post Book World

Buy A Drink, Support a Literary Magazine

All-You-Can-Eat Digital Book Buffets

Roundup of the Literary Inauguration

New Directions Publisher Banking on Backlist During Recession

Girls Write Now Raise $27,000

We've Found Our Place in This World

Barack Obama Sells Books Overseas, Too

Dept. of Corrections: Expensive Egg on Our Face

John Krasinski Brings David Foster Wallace to Sundance

Bookselling at Barack Obama's Inauguration

Literary Social Networking Poll and Contest

Pearson Reports 20 Percent Increase in Earnings

Barack Obama Is Your New Reading List

Writers Rally 'Round One of Their Own

Anchors Aweigh: mediabistro.com's Nonfiction Book Class Begins Feb. 3

Hollywood Scribes Staking a Kid-Lit Claim

Alice Walker Reads in Honor of Barack Obama's Inauguration

How To Write a Book in Two Weeks

Froggy Went A'Courting All Over The Publishing World

Exclusive Video Interview with Edgar-Winning Novelist Thomas Perry

Rumors of Washington Post Book World's "Elimination"

Bloggers Search for Best Social Networking Books Site

Family Turns Self-Publishing Success Into William Morrow Deal

O'Reilly Media Lays Off 30 Employees

The Next Generation of Book Critics Broadcasting on YouTube

Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominees Announced

CNET Editor Self-Censors Digital Book for Apple App Store

Agents: Keep Your Hands Off Our Two Percent

"The Anti-Sex and the City"

Has a Book Trailer Created a NYT Bestseller?

Anybody Got a Good Intourist Joke for Our Headline?

Four Editors Laid Off at Random House Publishing Group

Barnes & Noble Cuts Nearly 100 Employees

Breaking: Random House Publishing Group Names New Executive Roster

Authors Plan Eight New Bernard Madoff Books

Hachette Book Group USA To Limit E-Book Sales

Exclusive Interview with CNN's Ali Velshi

Literary Agency Takes Two-Point Conversion to "Pay the Bills"

AvantGuild: The Agent Who Came in From the Slush Pile

Cliffs Notes 2.0

Agate: Starting Small, Growing Carefully

The Evolving Art of Music Book Publishing: Exclusive Interview with Rock & Roll Author Dave Thompson

November's Book Sales Down an Unlucky 13 Percent

Crown's Executive Roster Announced Following Reorganization

Self-Publisher Smashwords Partners with Stanza iPhone Reader

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group's Executive Roster Announced

Limited Edition Poster Goes Wide for Beautiful Children Paperback

Simon & Schuster Streamlines Its Online Presence

The Literary Inauguration

New Publishing Directory for Twitter

Comedian Chris Rock Sells New Book

Ficlets Closure Causes Collaborative Writing Community Shake-Ups

Expert Explains Why E-Books Are So Expensive

Vice President Dick Cheney Is Writing a Book

Amazon Loses New York Suit

Want to Get Published? Try Thinking Small

The First Self-Publishing Success Story of '09?

Paul Beatty, 5 Other Writers Receive "Creative Capital" Grants

Major Bookstore Investor Sells Off Stock

Exclusive Video Interview with Author Steven Johnson

New College Textbook Rental Partnership

Presenting: The Book Industry in a Nutshell

George W. Bush Details Memoir Plans

84 Percent of Literary Internet Readers Are Reading Books

16.6 Million More U.S. Adults Are Reading Fiction

Dan Menaker Opens the Door to Tin House

Governor Rod Blagojevich Says Goodbye with Lord Alfred Tennyson's 'Ulysses' Poem

E-Reader Application Stanza Counts One Million Downloads

John Freeman Honored at Granta Party

Georgia Newspaper Drops "Books" from Arts Section Title

"Money Is the Last Taboo"... Until Now

Connelly's Latest Books Are For the Birds

They Throw Book Parties Outside New York

Pantheon Books Publisher Released

Dispatch from BookExpo 2012

Self-Publishing Company Author Solutions Buys Xlibris

Operation Warrior Library

Accidental Book Trailer Scores 30 Million Views

Borders CEO Exits Comfortably

Celebrate Elvis Presley's Birthday and Win an Encyclopedia

Barnes & Noble Reports Decline in Holdiay Sales

Indie Publisher Suing Borders for $1,000,000

Party Hopping: Hot Chicks and Wild Edibles

Guy Kawasaki's on Twitter All Day: How About You?

A Brief History of Advertisements in Books

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Places Hope in Obama Administration

Readers Rally Around Neale Donald Walsch After Plagiarism Accusations

The Prisoner Returns To Television, But Where's the Novel?

Publisher Richard Seaver Has Died

Drenka Willen Returns To Work After Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Lay-Offs

Now Even Fake Bloggers Are Getting Book Deals

Any Book France Can Read, We Can Read Later

An Expanding Portfolio of Literary Pick-Me-Ups

Running Advertisements in Novels

Digital Books for One Dollar

An Anthology Built for Your Web Browser

Digital Book Downloads Skyrocket at Libraries

Sloane Crosley Sells Her Second Book

Novelist Josh Bazell Explores the Pre-Sell Tour

McGraw-Hill Released 375 Employees in Fourth Quarter

Book Pros Put Biz School Observer in the Corner

Where's the REAL New Austerity in Publishing?

AvantGuild: Sharing Your Expertise Over the Internet

Readers Reject Overpriced E-Books

Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries Series Concludes Tomorrow

Laura Bush Sells Memoirs To Simon & Schuster

Could an iPod Touch Tablet Kill the Kindle?

11.7 Percent Sales Drop and CEO Change at Borders

Agent Stephen Barbara Moves To Foundry Literary + Media

Harvard Biz Prof: Publishing Can't Change

Children's Literacy Has Gone to the Dogs

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