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Archives: March 2009

Short Story Published in a Spreadsheet

Todd Palin Gets the Celebrity Treatment

OUP Executive Explains "Why Ebooks Must Fail"

Journalist Studies Indie Religious Publishing

Welcome to the Monkey Bar

Toni Morrison and Tom Piazza in Final for Tournament of Books

Scribd Responds to Piracy Critics

FT Plunges into Science with New Imprint

They're Only NOW Getting Around to This Question?

Featured Book of Color

The Art of Handmade Book Promotion

Anthony Hopkins May Play Ernest Hemingway

NY Times Lost Early Amazon Opportunity

Foundry Sells Three Books in Three Days

Authors Lead NYC Indie Bookstore Tour

High Profile Authors Find Piracy on Scribd

Barron's Declares Amazon "The World's Best Retailer"

Tina Pohlman Creates Her Own New Publishing Gig

Dear Author Giving Preference to DigiARCs

Featured Book of Color

Online Marketing Advice from Publishers, Authors, & 'Cats

Amazon CEO to Work in Kentucky Warehouse

Penguin Reaches out to Literary Bloggers

Dennis Kucinich Sues Publisher

The Part About The Granta Party

The Writing Is Off the Wall

Amazon Shutters Three U.S. Distribution Centers

Dispatch from the Twitter Lit Frontier

Two Literary Reporters Laid-Off at Boston Globe

New Literary Radio Show Hits the Airwaves

Douglas Rushkoff on Publishing Conglomeration

Brett Ratner Publishes Three Books

Countryman Press Puts Book Catalog on Twitter

Artist R. Crumb Completes Biblical Project

AvantGuild: Hast Thou Pitched the Jabberwock?

Cambridge University Press May Avoid Some Layoffs

Where the Wild Things Are Trailer Debuts

How to Crack the Amazon Bestseller List for $359-an-Hour

Featured Book of Color

Salman Rushdie Launches PEN World Voices Festival

Caroline Sutton Named EIC of Hudson Street Press

CEO Ponders Christian Book Expo Turnout

Brooklyn Versus Brooklyn

Apple Sued Over E-Reader Apps

Al Gore Announces New Book

Authors Win Literary Triva Showdown

Featured Publicist of Color - Jia Gayles

James Beard Foundation Awards Book Nominees Announced

Emily Cook Joins Granta as Advertising Director

Book Trailer Theater: Vikings and Volcanoes

Fictionwise Releases Digital Reader for Blackberry

Picador Launches 140-Character Book Club

Random House Reports 6.3 Percent Revenue Drop

Sana Krasikov Wins $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize

Arabic Print Runs Dwarfed by Demand

Featured Agent of Color - Kirby Kim

Fagerness Plunges Into Foreign Territory Solo

Indie Authors Draw Marvel Superheroes

HarperCollins Stops Mailing and Printing Catalogs

Son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Has Died

How to Read Like a Rock Star

GalleyCat Readers Debate Kindle 2's Text-To-Speech Function

Major University Press Goes "Primarily Digital"

Novelist & Book Critic Bond Over Lemon Meringue Pie

Remembering John Updike

Featured Book of Color

Books-A-Million Reports Drop in Sales

Multimedia "Digi Novel" Arrives This Fall

Jon Karp: Put More Work into Fewer Books

UnBeige: Hungry Little Caterpillar at 40

Bloomsbury Publicity Director Responds to SXSW Critics

Recession Publicity Strategy: Team Readings

How to David Foster Wallace-ize a Sentence

Featured Book of Color

Hugo Award Nominees Announced

Nine Disability Groups Write Publishers about Kindle 2

Pearls Before Swine Creator Negotiating Animated Film

Gloomy Forecast at Barnes & Noble

Featured Agent of Color - Sandy Lu

Literary Presidential Payday

National Magazine Awards Celebrate Literary Critics

Rivka Galchen on the Death of Publishing

Tournament of Books Rings 2nd Round Bell

Sony Reader to Offer 500,000 Public Domain Titles Via Google Books

President Bush Sells his Memoir

Author Erin Torneo on Writing During a Recession

Youssef Ziedan Wins $50,000 Arabic Fiction Prize

Scribd Announces More Publisher Partnerships

Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida Write New Film

GalleyCat Arrives in Sweden

2009 Man Booker International Prize Longlist Announced

25 Million Chinese Readers for Online Novels

How Will You Choose to Change Your Life Today?

Discovery Communications Sues Amazon

Book Deal for Popular Tumblr Blog

German Book Publishers Sue File Sharing Readers

Christopher Hitchens Scraps Philosophy Book

Cheerios Cereal Box Book

Interview with NYPL Young Lions Award Winner Salvatore Scibona

Seattle P-I Books Critic Bids Farewell

Seth Godin Urges Agents to "Hyperspecialize"

Salvatore Scibona Wins $10,000 Young Lions Fiction Award

Former Bear Stearns CEO Blasts WSJ Reporter in Book

SXSW Publishing Panel Sparks Fireworks

Harlan Ellison Sues Studio

Led Zeppelin, Wine, and Books

First Twitter Hardcover Published

Penguin Wins Best in Show at SXSW

When the Book Tour Ends, the Job Search Begins

David Allen: More Than GTD 2.0

MediaJobsDaily: Getting a Publishing Job Through mediabistro.com

Exclusive Interview with NBCC Poetry Winner Juan Felipe Herrera

Books-A-Million CEO Resigns

Nick Trautwein Moves to Penguin Press

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade Generates a Fraction of the Company's Profit

Exclusive Interview with 2008 NBCC Criticism Winner Seth Lerer

Kirkus Reviews Nonfiction Editor Relocates

Agent Eric Simonoff Joins William Morris Agency

Digiarcs Are Here, With More on the Way

Housing Works Hosts Gimme Shelter Conversation

2008 NBCC Winners Announced

Bestselling Writer Must Pay $13.9 Million in Legal Fees

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade No Longer for Sale

Emergency Room Reformer Sells Book

Community Writing Site Protagonize Is Finalist at SXSW Web Awards

Sarah Palin, Comic Book Hero

Chesley Sullenberger Lands $3.2 Million Two-Book Deal

We're Flooded With Galleys: More Digital ARCs, Please!

Nine Employees Laid Off at National Geographic Books

GalleyCat Call for More Diversity

Writers and Agents Celebrate Purple Day

Patrick deWitt and the Art of DIY Publicity

Anja Schmidt Hired as Kyle Books Publisher

Former President Bill Clinton Speaks to Publishers

Hardboiled Peanuts: Charles Schulz Meets Frank Miller

Marjane Satrapi and Chris Ware Talk to You

Reader's Digest Reduces Publishing Properties

What's the Best Literary Web Video Length?

Audrey Niffenegger Sells Her Next Book for $4.8 Million

Fox News Director on Financial Advice Books

Knopf Canada Launches Hamish Hamilton Imprint

Why Don't More Book Events Have Sweet Potato Pie?

AvantGuild: Two Agents, Serving the Word

Lexcycle and Macmillan Build New Reading App

Peter Abrahams Outed as Bestselling Mystery Novelist

Brooklyn Bookstore Forms Literary Basketball League

Short and Sweet: Flash Fiction at KGB Bar

GalleyCat Headed to TVNewser Summit

Stealing Rare Books

Captain Chesley Sullenberger Shops Book with Magazine Column

Down These Streets a Mean Bear Must Go

Jonathan Merkh Hired as Howard Books Publisher

Query Fail Day Debated

George Orwell's Love Letters To Be Auctioned

HarperCollins' New Igniter Sub-Imprint

What Are the Emperor's Children's Children Reading?

Book Stock Watch: Amazon Tweets

Fictionwise Has Sold Nearly Five Million E-Books

Jewel of Medina Gets Cold Reception in Texas

Susie Bright Classes Up Erotic Publishing (Again)

Stockett: The 46th Time's the Charm

Rumors of a $2.5 Million Bid for Chesley Sullenberger's Book

Who's Who of Young Book Publishing Host Party

Amazon Dominates Book Category in Apple App Store

GalleyCat Interview with Powerhouse Literary Manager, Rob Weisbach

Michael Dahlie Receives $8,000 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

What Would Christian Hipsters Read?

James Franco Scores Scribner Deal

"Watchmen" Tops Inaugural NYT Graphic Books Best Seller List

Borders Cuts 742 Employees Nationwide

Agents and Editors Blog Worst Queries

Twitter Reacts to New "It Books" Imprint

Barnes & Noble Acquires Fictionwise

Tobias Wolff Wins $20,000 Story Prize

Barnes & Noble Announces Discover Award Winners

Horton Foote Has Died

Publishers Offer Eight Free Digital Books

Rob Weisbach Launches New Agency

Watchmen Director Zack Snyder Just Wants to Sell Books

Books for Teens of Color

NEA Reports 6.6 Percent of Writers and Authors Are Unemployed

GalleyCat Features Book Publishing Professionals of Color

Train-ing Day

Amazon Releases Kindle for iPhone App

Layoffs at the Original Chicken Soup for the Soul Publisher

Building a Better Mobile Version of a Literary Magazine

Four Publishers Sue Anderson News for $37.5 Million

Scene @ South Carolina Book Festival

Brooklyn's Book Court: Bigger Than Ever

Keira Knightley to Star in Kazuo Ishiguro Adaptation

NY Times Examines Matt McCarthy's Baseball Memoir

Book Applications Post Huge Gains in iTunes

Laura Albert Writes Again

Creative Artists Agency Spooks NY Literary Agents

Rod Blagojevich Scores Six Figure Book Deal

James Patterson and Liza Marklund to Co-Write Novel

Brendan Deneen Joins FinePrint Literary Management

MediaJobsDaily.com Launches

Manhattan Madam: Electronic Book, Old-School PR Blitz

Author Ben Wilson to Test Radiohead E-Book Model

New Yorker Reveals David Foster Wallace's Final Work

Random House Acquires Ten Speed Press

HarperStudio Re-Enters Digital Book Pricing Debate

Amazon Changes Kindle 2 Text-To-Speech Policy

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