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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