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Archives: June 2009

Shaman Drum Bookstore Closes on Twitter

Minnesota Court Rules for Al Franken

Reforming Real Estate Coverage

One Rock Band's Twitter Story Experiment

Amazon Ends Affiliate Program in Rhode Island and North Carolina

Another Author Stokes Book Review Debate

Rob Weisbach Has a Posse

ScrollMotion Publishes Digital Stephenie Meyer Titles in U.K.

Alice Hoffman Regrets "Heat of the Moment" Tweet

This Is Why You're Fat "Much Like Food Porn," Co-Founder Admits

UnBeige Makes the Kidd/Vanderbilt Connection

Literati Show Their Pride at LGBT Parade

Dr. Askhari Johnson Hodari

B&N Faces Amazon in App Store

Inside Michael Jackson's Library

Bernard Madoff Sentenced; Books To Come

Literary Internet Reacts to Alice Hoffman's Tweet

Wattpad Launches Google Android Application

Read Your "Texts From Last Night" in a Book

Reprinting Michael Jackson

A Western Writer Named L. Ron Hubbard

You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy

The Literary Side of Doctor Who

Alice Hoffman Is Ready to Rumble

Amazon's Warning: Book Stock Watch

Michael Jackson Jokes Cut

Transformers Rule iPhone Paid Book Apps

1 Week, 100 Milkshakes: Adam Ried Did It for YOU.

Remembering the Stonewall Riots

Aspiring UK Designers Test Their Skills on Donna Tartt

Quartet Press Seeks Its First Submissions

Scene @ Tom Zoellner's Uranium Party

Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent" Film?

Philip Roth, Techno Star?

Making the Future Up As We Go Along

Love, Ocean by Celia Anderson

Borders Books Supports Gay-Themed Novels -- Is it Appropriate for Teens?

Michael Jackson and His Books

J. R. R. Tolkien Marathon in Iran

Carlos Ruiz Zafon Novel Debuts on Top of Indie Bestseller List

The Last Prejudice by David Rivera Jr.

Readers Stoke Publishing Salary Debate

Exclusive: CNBC Anchor David Faber on Long-Form Reporting

Donnie Darko Meets Richard Matheson

VQR Reporter Absolves Chris Anderson of 'Malice'

Listing Summer Reading Lists

BBC Poetry Series Drives Sales

Ruben Toledo Is (Re)Modeling the Classics

Now That's What We Call Beach Reading

Seymour Hersh Wins Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism

Chris Anderson's Mistake: Common or Careless?

Flavorpill & Granta Launch Film Contest

Dave Eggers and the "Wild Things" Shuffle

Ernest Hemingway's Imported Cocktail

Chris Anderson's Sourcing Slip-Up

Reading Ed McMahon

So What Do You Do, Linda Fairstein?

Every Book Shall Have Its Soundtrack

Dick Cheney Sells His Memoir

UnBeige Discovers a Truly Millennial Story

Letters from Prison by Monique Holyfield

Help NPR Pick the Best Beach Books

Do Publishing Salaries Affect Literature?

Undressing the Stripper Memoir

O'Reilly Media Heads to Frankfurt Book Fair

ScrollMotion Seals LibreDigital iPhone Content Deal

Writing about Love in Iran

National Press Club Could Include Bloggers

Freelance Editor, Rakia Clark

Sexy Pride Week Reading

Video: Book Talk at #140Conf

Pritzker Military Library Honors WWII Historian

Freelance Writers Owed Thousands for Textbook Work

Nora Roberts by the Numbers

Book Deal for College Kids' "Twitterature"

About 20 Employees Cut at Perseus

University Presses Cope with Digital Students

John Edwards' Aide Pitches Publishers

Tim Burton Unveils Alice in Wonderland Stills

A Beginner's Guide to #RWAChange

Eight Dogs Named Jack by Joe Borri

90 Seconds of Book Trailer: $600

UnBeige Is a Big Leanne Shapton Fan

Newsweek's Maziar Bahari Arrested in Iran

Anthology of McSweeney's Funny Women

Book Stock Watch: Wiley Waits

GalleyCat for Your Ears

Dalmatian Publishing Group to Shutter Santa Monica Office

Joe Meno on Publishing Conglomeration and the Recession

Penguin Group Launches Multimedia Site

Denise Oswald's Roller Derby Deal

Amazon.com, Inc. May End Affiliate Program in North Carolina

Pearson Promises California Schools Digital Content

Invisible Library Card

Big Deal for Historical Novel on Hemingway's Wife

Stuart Woods Promoted to Quill & Quire Editor

Simon & Schuster's "Pulse" of the Teen Nation

Audibooks App Nabs Top Spot in Apple App Store

Douglas Rushkoff on the Future of Writing

Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order Against Salinger Tribute

Macmillan Digital in the House at #140Conf

Publishing Perspectives @ Twitter Boot Camp

Lust, Loathing, and a Little Lip Gloss by Kyra Davis

Google Mapping the Bible

Dunkin' Donuts and Publishing

Radioactive Book Party

Christian Group Urges Burning of Francesca Lia Block Book

Tor Launches Publisher Agnostic Online Store

Marjane Satrapi Testifies about Election in Iran

Horror Director Tobe Hooper Scores Book Deal

The Wisdom or Folly of Crowds?

A "Radical Price" for Pubishing

Incredible Shrinking Book Review

Latina Author Uses Theater Festival to Promote Novel

Douglas Rushkoff on Twitter and Totalitarianism

NYC Budget Preserves Public Library Service

Lonely Planet to Open Airport Store

Amazon CEO Knocks Google Books Settlement

Bloomsday 2.0

Down Sand Mountain by Steve Watkins

Sara Nelson Defends Salinger Follow-Up

Who Wants to Be an Audiobook Narrator?

How to Write a Fictional Twitter Feed

Edward P. Jones Takes Prizewinning Prize

Cliffs Notes on Your Telephone

Zombie Heirlooms

Seth Godin Attacks Textbook Publishing

Barack Obama's Half-Brother to Write Book

The Fictional Letter Campaign

Book View Café Picking Up the Pace

Book Stock Watch: Amazon's Aims

Writers and Poets Run Israeli Newspaper

Former Bantam Editor Looks Beyond Publishing Layoffs

Debut Novelist Michael Thomas Wins 100,000 Euro Prize

Scandalous Oxford Professor Race Immortalized in Anonymous Poem

GalleyCat Radio

Simon & Schuster to Sell Books on Scribd

Salinger Follow-Up Author Unmasked

Operation Redwood by Terrel French

Brooklyn Versus Manhattan Book Parties

Author Reveals Personal Kindle Sales

The AP Stylebook Embraces Twitter

Queen Noor to Appear at NY Public Library

Prince of Poets Contest Draws Millions of Viewers

Shortcovers Builds Digital Reader for Palm Pre

Twitter Boot Camp Discount

Susan Orlean's Tempest in the Twitter Teapot

From the Apple Store to Barnes & Noble

West Bend's New Censors Too Extreme Even for Regular Extremists

Columbine Historian OK With No Oprah Show

Dzanc Books Launches Literary Journal

Bret Easton Ellis' Twitter Review Career

Distributor to Fight J.D. Salinger's Lawsuit

Swiss Army Knife of Dictionaries

Dave Eggers Completes Nonfiction Book about Hurricane Katrina

Conan the Digitalist

Chip Kidd To Write Batman Comic

David Graham Departs at Granta Publications

Squelching His Inner Critic, With Momofuku's Help

FBLA: YA Novel Gets Old Folks Riled Up

What Doesn't Kill You by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant

Ann Arbor's Shaman Drum Bookshop to Close

Jean-Luc Godard May Adapt Holocaust Book

COOL-ER eBook Reader: the Future of Book Publishing?

Passing Literary Judgment

Dave Eggers' 300-Page Storybook Adaptation

ScrollMotion Bringing One Million Books to iPhone

Arcade Publishing Files for Bankruptcy

What's He Building in There?

The Little Press that Could

$99 iPhone Rocks E-Book World

Alice Neel's Great Depression

The New Gatekeepers

New Agatha Christie Stories Discovered

Literary Website Readerville Closes

The Wind-Up Charlie Bird Parker Chronicles

Because I Love Her in Brooklyn

Everything Asian by Sung J. Woo

Just Another Hero by Sharon M. Draper

Book Stock Watch: Google Gains

Toni Morrison on Post-Obama Writing

Dave Eggers Sends Soothing Mass Email

Famous Author Summer Book Club

Rescued Pirate Captive Closes Book Deal

Worldwide Seizures of Pirated Books

Macmillan Audio Publicity Promotion

We're Still Waiting on That Peter Bagge Bag, Though

70-Year-Old Spy Accusations Still Provoking Controversy

Writers Remember Tiananmen Square

The Revolution Will Be Customized

OUP Dictionary Team Dissects Twitter

Toni Morrison Defends Censored Work

Actor and Author David Carradine Has Died

Poetry Slams Slammed

The White-Glove BookExpo Autograph Session

Starbucks Hasn't Changed Norman Ollestad

University Presses Share Problems at BEA

Laura Caldwell, Non-Stop Mystery Novelist

Lady Jasmine by Victoria Christopher Murray

Marilynne Robinson Wins £30,000 Prize

Blogger Signs Brooklyn Bookstore Lease

How to Build a Literary iPhone App

The War-Torn World of Academic Publishing

Two Writers Win $60,000 Fellowship

LIVE! Mediabistro Circus: Keith Ferrazzi

Fantasy Author David Eddings Has Died

Illinois UP Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Sherman Alexie Will Meet with Amazon Reps

Salinger Suit Spooks Distributor

Where Did You Sleep Last Night? by Danzy Senna

Blogging Evangelist on the Future of Publishing

Sherman Alexie Versus Amazon

Paul Auster's Lost Children's Book

Short Story Publishing Tips

100 Strangers Co-Write and Publish Book

How 25 Million Chinese Readers Read Online

Showtime Network Develops Digital Tie-In for Amazon Kindle

J.D. Salinger Sues to Stop Unauthorized Sequel

SWEETSMOKE by David Fuller

BEA Wrap Up: Literati-a-go-go Supports Independent Bookstore

Google to Sell Digital Books

General Motors by the Book

Homemade Author Video Drives Sales

Amazon.com, Inc. Announces Kindle DX Ship Date

BEA 2009: Bloggers Speak Out

Prime View International Aquires E Ink for $215 Million

Viral Video, Publishing, and Puppies

American Readers: Rising Up or Fading Out?

OR Books Takes "Launch Party" Literally

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