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Archives: May 2009

Amazon.com, Inc. Rumors

Inside the Blogger's Studio

James Patterson Sets World Record

BEA Writing Advice from Richard Russo and John Irving

Iggy Pop's Literary Album

Party Like It's 1975

Haruki Murakami's New Book More Than 1,000 Pages

Tina Brown Bashes $9.99 Digital Books

From BEA: Stitches - A Memoir by David Small

GalleyCat Exclusive: $199 EBook Reader

GalleyCat Reports: Thursday at BEA

Pat Conroy Bows Out of BEA

How to Catch a Book Pirate

Granta Editor Departs

The Federal Writers Project and Depression-Era Publishing

Piracy Study Results Released

Brad Meltzer Hatches a Plot with Freemasons

Judge Sonia Sotamayor's Secret

Stanza COO Neelan Choksi on the Last 150 Days in E-Books

Paula Chase Hyman

GalleyCat Versus BEA

Toilet Paper Horror Novel

Non-Reader Kanye West Publishes

Lit Mags Unite for NYC Extravaganza

James King Wins Breakthrough Novel Award

Comparing Apples and Kindles

1Q Sales Fall 12 Percent at Borders Group, Inc.

Let Two Debut Novelists Sing & Read Their Way Into Your Heart

Alice Munro Wins £60,000 Man Booker International Prize

They're Going to Party Like It's 1969

AvantGuild: What Can Brown Do for Writers?

Bookshelves on Wall Street

Publishing Acrobatics at Mediabistro Circus

Phoenix Books Creates Children's Division

Audible Launches BlackBerry E-Book Application

Diane Salvatore Named Publisher of Broadway Books

Twitter Experts Go Offline, in Print & in Person

Lighter Workload Doesn't Always Free Up Creative Time

Poet Resigns Poetry Post After Contacting Journalists about Derek Walcott

Telling Our Stories, with Little Time to Spare

Our Dream Team: Colleen Coover & P.G. Wodehouse

Science Fiction Political Consultants

Van Booy: Stories Make a Room Look Good

Bonnie J. Glover

Books-A-Million Inc. Q1 Sales Up 2%

Sana Krasikov Receives $100,000 Award

Anna David: Can You Be Bought?

Michael Marshall: Keeping Supernatural Suspense Real

Doubleday Executive Editor Wins 2009 Maxwell E. Perkins Award

11 Laid-Off at Scholastic

Reports of the Short Story's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Amanda Ridout Leaves HarperCollins UK

New Bill Blocks Rod Blagojevich Book Deal Payday

Customized Recessionary BEA Coverage

Beacon Press Partners with Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Estate

Portfolio Publisher and His Maestro

Dave Eggers to Reassure Readers Personally about Print

Hachette's Bestselling Promotional iPhone App

Starbucks to Sell Norman Ollestad Memoir

DC Writing Award Organizer Criticizes New York Publisher

Michael Gross: Where Is The Love?

Google Gives The Link Subtle Boost

Amazon Upgrades iPhone Reader

William Shatner Battles Himself

Ron Rosenbaum Attacks Anonymous Web Commenters

Josh Marshall Responds to Maureen Dowd Incident

Lit Bloggers Debate Kindle Blog Program

Pirate Captive's Book in High-Stakes Auction

J.D. Salinger's Lawyer Examines Unauthorized Sequel

Writing the Future Depression

"On Demand" Books Up 132 Percent

Two-Fisted Sherlock Holmes Movie Trailer

Still No Jewel of Medina for UK

AvantGuild: The Agent Who Discovered Obama

Party with the Writing Teachers

Little, Brown Ready to Reveal Its Hidden Link

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by John Steinbeck's Son

Bookstore Survival Strategies from Rainy Day Books

PublicAffairs Founder Defends E-Book Bundling

Literary Blogs on Kindle

Michele R. Wright

20th Annual Independent Press Award Winners Announced

NY Times Absolves Maureen Dowd

Women Earn 15% Less in UK Publishing

NY Public Library's Preservation Campaign Now Online

Nick Cave and Cormac McCarthy on "The Road"

Scribd Launches Online Store

Get GalleyCat to Go

Partying In Her Own Sweet Time

Maureen Dowd Accused of Copying Josh Marshall

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Finalists

GalleyCat Movie Theater

BEA Blogger Signing Schedule

Derek Walcott's Accuser Publicly Defends Poet

Touring Literary Paris

Read Poetry, Not Blogs

mediabistro.com Alums Publish Book

Why We Want to Attend #140Conf

Stacy Hawkins Adams

Boss Hog Headlines Book Party

Denise Oswald Outlines Soft Skull Plans

Catcher in the Rye Sequel Has Mysterious Origins

Party Like a New Yorker Editor

Amazon Opens Kindle to Bloggers

Bookstore Sales Dipped 4.2 Percent in Q1 of 2009

Katha Pollitt on Political Poetry

Revisiting The Twilight of New York Baseball's Golden Age

Glengarry Glen Gladwell

Rock Star Literature

Esquire's In-Titled Fiction Contest

Thomas Friedman Returns $75,000 Speaker's Fee

Stephenie Meyer Wins Author of the Year Award

Digi-Novel Collaborator Announced

Chasing After a Great Story

Gay Talese Checks Out His Photograph

Maria Celeste Arraras

Rupert Murdoch Has Plans for Sarah Palin

All Tomorrow's Parties Will Be in India

Michael Chabon in White House Slam

Harlan Ellison Rejects Hometown Prize

Derek Walcott Drops Oxford Bid

Agency Withdraws Credit Rating for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Susan Orlean Counters Dan Baum on Twitter

Featured Freelance Editor - Marcela Landres

WSJ's Kate Kelly: Star of the Evening, Despite a Power Outage

Wanna See Your Picture on the Cover?

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Nevada Barr Jumps to Minotaur Books

Hunter S. Thompson Travel Agency

Stormtroopers Occupy Bryant Park Reading Room

Dan Baum's New Yorker Twitter-versy

Richard & Judy Fell from 3 Million Viewers to 8,000

NYPL Honors Jane Mayer's Dark Side

Amazon and indieBound Top iPhone App Store

The Expensive Art of Digitization

So Many Book Parties to Choose From

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Poet Craig Arnold Has Died

Book Stock Watch: Amazon Unveils Kindle DX

Read Star Trek and Prosper

Revenue Dips Nearly 20 Percent at Simon & Schuster

Mother's Day Stress Test

Richard & Judy Book Show Canceled

Budget Cuts Threaten LSU Press

Do Wild Boars Guard JRR Tolkien's Work?

UK Rights Sold for David Foster Wallace's Last Work

Now Even Paperbacks Are Getting Paperbacks

Grab Your Inhalers, Palahniuk's Taking the Stage

Search for Poet Craig Arnold Continues

Literary Page Six

Nick Cave's Rejected Gladiator Sequel

HarperCollins' Revenue Decreased Nearly 20 Percent Last Quarter

Blogger Signings Debut at BEA

John Wray's Michiko Kakutani Tattoo

Michael J. Fox's Sixty-Minute Book Trailer

Dr. Keith Black's Party for Brain Surgeon

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National Book Foundation Awards Innovations in Reading Prizes

Why Should Students Choose Kindle DX?

E-Textbook Competition Will Be Fierce

Amazon Unveils Kindle DX

Publisher Launches 8,000-Page, 24-Volume Urdu Translation

Smashwords Courts Publishers with Free e-Book Service

Paul McCartney's Book-of-the-Month

Amazon CEO Sold $63 Million in Stock

Jennifer McLagan Wins Cookbook of the Year

Days of Poetry and Punk Rock

Penguin Reports 6.7 Percent Worldwide Revenue Increase

Amazon Commands Digital Textbook Revolution

A Writers Conference That Comes With a Desk of Your Own

HarperStudio's Debbie Stier at DailyLit Lunch

Barack Obama's Mother to be Published

The Darling Jim Ending Americans Haven't Seen

100 Indie Bookstores in a Single Tour

Daniel Clowes Unveils New Work

Colson Whitehead on Literary Classification

100 Jobs Saved at Cambridge University Press

Korean Book Sales Skyrocket

Glenn Beck to Publish Across All Age Groups

Rumors of a Big Screen Kindle

Jonathan Safran Foer and David Grossman Celebrate Bruno Schulz

Featured Book of Color

Koss & Walker, On Their Own & Together Again

Amazon.com, Inc. Raises Kindle Fees

Dueling Economists at PEN World Voices Festival

Conversations with the Grand Masters

mediabistro.com: Develop Your Platform

Lily Burana's Dual-Exposure Memoir

Ursula K. Le Guin: Guesswork & Archaeology & Virgil

The Revolving Review Copy

England's First Female Poet Laureate Named

International Buy Indie Day Has Commenced

Edgar Award Winners Announced

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