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Archives: February 2009

New Yorker Fiction Editor Sees Recession Submission Boom

Book Stock Watch: Borders Closes Chicago Store

Picador Invests in Roberto Bolano

Fake Maya Angelou Twitter Feed Exposed

Google To Pay Authors $60-to-$300 Per Scanned Title

Benjamin Anastas: "Literature Is This Non-Governmental Regulatory Agency"

Comic Book Companies Fear Digital Books

Michiko Kakutani Drove Norman Mailer Crazy

Books Editor Patti Thorn Says Farewell Along with Rocky Mountain News

Fugees Producer To Shop Memoir

Barnes & Noble Fires Undocumented Workers

Can Pirates Help Sell Books?

SNL's Oral Historians Tackle ESPN

Self-Publishing 101

"Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill Wins PEN/Faulkner Award

GalleyCat at the Festival of New French Writing

Former mediabistro.com Party Hostess Now a Guest of Honor

AvantGuild: Professor, Bookseller, Kidlit Agent

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Publish Two More Philip Roth Novels

First Gutted Glimpse Inside the Kindle 2

Philip Jose Farmer Has Died

Richard Nash To Leave Soft Skull and Counterpoint

Book Party Like It's Not 2009

Roy Blount Jr. Argues Against Kindle 2 Audio

Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler

Meet Sweden's Biggest Book Bloggers

Naomi Klein Wins £50,000 Warwick Prize

Scribner Memoir Picked by Starbucks

Assistant Editor Fired and Hired in 24 Hours

Chinese Premier Donates 200,000 Digital Books

Direct Mail Sales Bolster Indie Publisher

Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy's Agent Fears Amazon

Celebrate the Release of Family of Secrets

Surrounding Yourself With Vision & Passion

Inspirational Power of Last Lecture Recognized

Amazon Kindle 2 Orders Shipping

Crossword Puzzle 2.0

Condoleezza Rice Scores 3-Book Deal with Crown

Jonathan Lethem Unveils New Work

Salman Rushdie Pans Oscar Winners

Susan Orlean Abandons Word

Interactive Indie Bookstore Finder Updated

Weschler's Weekend Wonder Work

Book Stock Watch: Borders Cuts

Is Blagojevich Close to a Book Deal?

Directory of Laid Off Publishing Employees

Bookforum's Bittersweet Reading

Borders Files Dismissal Motion in Million Dollar Lawsuit

Danielle Steel To Release 71 Digital Books

Amazon Readers Criticize NY Post Cartoonist

Three Percent Picks Best Translated Books

GalleyCat Readers Rate Scribd

More Than One Thousand Petition for Release of Chinese Author

136 More Employees Laid Off At Borders

Five Finalist Named for $10,000 Young Lions Fiction Award

Adam Begley to Write John Updike Biography

Publishing Layoff Diary

Author Gay Talese Editing the Homeless

Ang Lee May Direct Life of Pi Adaptation

Jane Austen Meets Aliens and Elton John

Scribd Counts 50 Million Readers

Digital Galley Copies Spotted on Pirate Sites

How To Find a Freelance Book Publicist

New Yorker Launches Online Book Club

TOC-BEAT! Hits Newstands

Thomas Pynchon Sells British Rights

Publishing in World of Warcraft

Creating Imaginary Book Promotion Tools

Barnes & Noble Rated "Strong Sell"

Behind the Scenes at Frankfurt Book Fair

Publisher Predicts Recession's End

Fashion Week Brings at Least One Literati to Town

Federation of the Blind Criticizes Authors Guild

Self-Published Recreation of Philip K. Dick's Final Project

Stop Us If You Think That You've Heard This One Before

Fairhope's Latest Writer-in Residence Meets the Booksellers

For Your Presidents' Day Viewing Pleasure

Lifestyles of the 21st Century Writer

Book Stock Watch: Amazon Upgrade

Plastic Logic Unveils Space-Age Reader

Former Doubleday Publisher Steve Rubin Gets A New Job

New Bernard Madoff Book Serialized

Dan Brown and Jon Krakauer Cheer Up Doubleday

Let's Call 2008's Book Market Stable With Modest Declines

Bulletproof Expert Drops All Charges for Ex-HC Staff

Recession Breeds Pulp Fiction Revival

Rod Blagojevich Sighted at Macmillan Offices

Authors Guild Issues Alert About Amazon Audio Feature

What's A Printed Book Worth?

Mike Tyson Shopping New Book

Expert Wonders If HarperCollins Layoffs Were "Personal"

What's The Big Idea Behind John Scalzi's Big Idea?

AvantGuild: An Agent Who Seeks (and Spreads) Inspiration

That Lady's Imagination Was Very Rapid

Novelist John Scalzi Expands "Big Idea" Feature into New Literary Website

More Details on Cuts at HarperCollins

Cory Doctorow Criticizes Authors Guild

Bringing Sexy Back: The Book Party in the Digital Age

Scenes from Mediabistro O'Reilly TOC Cocktail Party

Bulletproof Job Man Reaches Out to Harper's Fallen

Graphic Novels in the Recession

HarperCollins Shuts Down Bowen Press

Authors Guild Questions Kindle 2 Audio Feature

HarperCollins Shutters Collins

BEA To Adopt Shorter Schedule and Stay in NYC

Twitter Writers Break News of HarperCollins Layoffs

How To Format Manuscripts for Amazon Kindle

Our Subtle Literary Influence Continues

How To Target Video Game Readers

Can You Sell Comic Books In This Economy?

Jane Austen's Zombie Viral Bestseller?

UK "For Dummies" Publisher Leaves To Follow Mobile Technology

Clarifying Amazon Kindle Sales Figures

Stephen King Talks About Amazon Kindle and The Police

Amazon Unveils Kindle 2

Chelsea Green Publishing Reports Record Sales During Recession

"Real Book" Writers Play a Part at Comic-Con, Too

First Glimpse of the Amazon Kindle 2.0

GalleyCat Twitters ComicCon

Exclusive: The Rumpus Launch Party

Barack Obama's Audiobook Curses

StumbleUpon Counts 7 Million Users

HarperCollins Sales Fall 25 Percent

Wither Goes the Amazon E-Book?

Tina Brown Talks About The Book Beast

Fake Ad Drums Up Real Attention

TED Conference Dispatch: Elizabeth Gilbert on Creativity

Slumdog Millionaire Scribe Scores Book Deal

Small Press Organization Cuts Executive Director

Bestseller List 2.0

Johnny Depp To Revisit the Work of Hunter S. Thompson

Comedians Deconstruct the Sunday Book Review

"Immobilizing the Bull Is the Hard Part"

Book Includes Writings by the Columbine Killers

Michael Chertoff and David Plouffe Make Literary Headlines

Exclusive Interview: Author Ben Esch on Videogame Promotions for Books

Stephen King Versus Stephenie Meyer

Video Interview with Debut Novelist Karan Mahajan

Expert Thinks Amazon Sold 500,000 Kindles

"I Want To Represent Books That Actually Reach People"

Now You Can Has Dubbel Cheezburger

Believe It Or Not, We're Walking On Air: GalleyCat @ NY ComicCon

AvantGuild: Is There a Secret Lit Crit Lingo?

Borders Cuts 16 Executive Positions

Memoirist Defends Michael Phelps

Breakthrough Novel Contest Judge Confesses

Pundits Thrilled about Elizabeth Edwards' Upcoming Memoir

Kickoff for the Next Superbowl Book

Did Last Year's Amazon Winner Really Breakthrough?

Jeff Jarvis Stars in New Video Book

Harlequin Offers 16 Free E-Books on Stanza

Attenberg's Video Dispatches from the Road

FishbowlLA Editors Leap into Print

American Library Association Endowments Drastically Decline

Reed Exhibitions Canada Shutters BookExpo Canada

Penguin and Amazon Open $25K Breakthrough Novel Contest

Six Stellar Publishing Company Blogs

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Debt Load Grows

Soft Skull/Counterpoint Press Reports Best Year Ever

Romance Damsels with a Dash of "Kickass"

Who's Making the Eat, Pray, Love Movie, Already?

Can We Afford Not to Give It Away?

UnBeige: Updike Wouldn't Take Manhattan

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