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Archives: July 2009

Book Stock Watch: Student's Amazon Suit

Welcome to Methland

Booker Longlister Fights Wikipedia Critics

Drawing Thomas Pynchon

65 To Be Laid Off at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Rodale CEO Replaced by Founder's Granddaughter

At the Drive-In Volcano by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Man Booker Book Club

Don Linn Joins Quartet Press

Gawker, Publishing, and the Creative Underclass

AAP Chair Urges Authors to Join Google Settlement

BayNewser Sits In on Google Book Settlement Chat

Opening for the Pogues: George Pelecanos

Reed Business Information Looks to Sell Publishers Weekly

Afghan Women Writing Online

Random House in Wall Street Bull Suit

Digital Publishing Acrobatics

Nicholson Baker's Live Kindle Debate

Cartoonist Confidential

GalleyCat's Pynchon Party Program

Barnes & Noble, Inc. to Offer Free Wi-Fi in Stores

Editing William T. Vollmann

UnBeige: Could Literature Become an Art Object?

It's Like Love Letters, With More Laffs

Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Merriweather

Ashton Kutcher and David Pogue Publish Twitter Fans

G.I. Joe Fan Fiction Unleashed

Nancy Drew Reader Endorsed by Senate Judiciary

Man Booker Dozen Announced

J.R.R Tolkien Estate Sues to Block "The Hobbit" Adaptation

Journalist Suggsts Amazon Should Not Apologize

Digital Editorial Director Picked at HarperCollins

UnBeige: Prairie Ave Bookshop No More?

The Future of [Some] Publishing

Publicity Lessons: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Richard Yates

The Song Is You, Times Two

French Cashier Bags Bestseller

Holes in the Amazon Kindle Library

David Cronenberg to Adapt Don DeLillo Novel

Punk Rock Book Promotion

Scene @ Shelf Discovery Debut Party

European Futurists Dream Up E-Book Applications

The Land of Silent Morning by Kathleen K. Washington

Book Stock Watch: Amazon Dips

Novelist E. Lynn Harris Has Died

Apple Tablet May Arrive in Early 2010

Hudson Street Press' Shopping Spree

The Post-Restructuring Shuffle

Author Appeals J.D. Salinger's Legal Victory

Jeff Bezos Apologizes for Kindle Mistake

Two New Literary Culture Sites to Bookmark

Outcasts United by Warren St. John

Simon Karlinsky, 1924-2009

Hitchhiker's Guide to Sequel Writing

Fetish Art, Bat-Manga, and Other Comic Book Surprises

"A Disobedient Girl" Launch

Hooked on Vampire Vocabulary

YA Critics Feel Cheated by Liar Cover Girl

IndieBound Updates Literary iPhone App

Unusual Cover Placement: Smart or Shady?

GalleyCat Readers Dispute Publishing Critique

Amazon.com, Inc. to Acquire Zappos

Is This the Bookstore of Tomorrow?

From Mad Men to Designing Spaces

Bruce Nichols Moves to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

B&N Tops Amazon in App Store

Publishing Leaders Ponder Epic Fall Lists

Plastic Logic Strikes AT&T 3G Deal

Bill O'Reilly's Anti-Book Club

BookSurge to Sell 400,000 U of M Library Titles

Inside Mary Matalin's Conservative Imprint

Turbulence Before Takeoff by Flint Whitlock

Copyfight: David Rees Vs. Jamba Juice

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Charges Dropped

Eat, Pray, Rehash

The Publishing Gospel According to Michael M. Thomas

Author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested

Suzan Colon's Advice for Laid-Off Publishing Workers: "Don't Be Discouraged"

AvantGuild: Be Your Own Best Publicist

Five Million Bill O'Reilly Broadway Hardcovers in Print

Barnes & Noble Launches Vast E-Book Store

Book Stock Watch: Barnes & Noble Inc. Restructures

Norman Mailer on the Moon

Former Miss California Lands Book Deal

Amazon.com, Inc. and "1984"

Yann Martel's Multi-Million Dollar Deal

Ellah Allfrey Named Deputy Editor at Granta

Daniel Asa Rose: Family & Life-or-Death Comedy

Hard Case Crime to Honor Westlake's Memory

Frank McCourt Has Died

Newsweek's McCarter: Fairlie Appreciative

Words of My Life's Song by Ashley Bryan

FBLA: Walter Cronkite and the Web Stuff

Authors' Favorite Status Galleys

Harry Potter and the iPhone Apps

Literary Journal Pays Contributors $1,000

Salman Rushdie's Dinner with Thomas Pynchon

Percy Jackson Rides Harry Potter's Cape-Tails

Journalists Debate E-Book Pricing

The Author Who Sent His Story Out on the Blog Tour

Richard Wilbur Day @ Sewanee

Deadly Charm by Claudia Mair Burney

You'll Want to Break Out Your Headphones

Harvard UP to Sell 1,000 Books on Scribd

550 Cut at McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Management Buyout at Borders UK

On-Demand Flash Fiction

E-Readers Featured in App Awards

Supreme Court Debated

Slate Critic Calls for Lower E-Book Prices

Filling the Gaping Void with Purple Cows

Hollywood Gets Life Without Parole; Berkley Takes On Victim's Story

Best Thriller of the Year

Author and Poet Phyllis Gotlieb Has Died

Archipelago Books Appeals for Support

Amazon.com, Inc. Sued by Kindle Customers

Raymond Chandler's Brief Acting Career

Quirk Mingles Jane Austen and Sea Monsters

Edward M. Kennedy's $1,000 Memoir

The Get 'Em Girls' Guide to the Perfect Get-Together

Two Tuesday Title-Twisting Tests

Q-Tip Lands Book Deal

Frank McCourt's Health Declines

Author Paula Froelich to Leave Page Six

It Was the Best of Tweets, It Was the Worst of Tweets

Sourcebooks Bucks $9.99 E-Book Price Point

New Yorker Editor on Niche Readership

AvantGuild: Your Topic's Only Obscure If You Let It Be!

Comics Creators Rally to Cover Colleague's Eye Surgery

Book Party "Rituals of the North American W.A.S.P."

Gloomy Publishing Industry Survey

Arabic Title Turns Book from "Gay" to "Pervert"

Editor Charles N. Brown Has Died

Stanza Reader Turns One-Year-Old

Book Deal for Self-Published Kindle Author

Investigating Sonia Sotomayor's Nancy Drew Love Affair

Memoir-Inspired Relapse

Star Wars Novelist Needs Help With Astronomical Medical Costs

I'm Perfect, You're Doomed by Kyria Abrahams

Book Stock Watch: Comics Biz

Drinking a Beer with Readers

Ernest Hemingway, KGB Agent?

Richard Nash on Kindle, Twitter, and E-Books

LSU Press Will Stay Open

Sourcebooks Sells Digital Titles on Smashwords

Everybody Loves an Old-Timey Burlesque Book Party

Physics Professor Disputes "Free"

Love on the Line by Laura Castoro

Rogue Digital Conference!

Authors Defeated in Mexican Election

QR Codes and Publishing

Publishing's Next Generation Hears from the Bloggers

So Happy Together at Clinton Bookshop

Justin Timberlake Shops Golf Book Proposal

Literary Travel Resources

Tokyo International Book Fair Rides Digital Wave

Stephenie Meyer's Bestseller Streak Continues

Mediaite Ranks the Authors

Amazon Drops Kindle 2 Price

Virtual Bookstore Love

Andrew Keen Sells Book on "Loneliness, Anxiety and Inequality"

Literary Journal Meets Thrift Store

Playboy Snags First Serial Rights to Vladmir Nabokov Novel

60 Years, 77 National Book Awards for Fiction

YA Authors Rally Around Aphasia-Stricken Colleague

"Free" Viewed 17,700 Times for Free

Michael Jackson and "The Little Prince"

Maya Angelou Writes Michael Jackson Poem

The Book Club Hustle

Barnes & Noble Tops Amazon in App Store Books Category

Giving Book Publishing a Soft Reboot

Black Lace and Nexus Authors Notified of Postponed List

Doubleday Unveils New Dan Brown Cover

Chaser by Miasha

Cory Doctorow Novel Serialized

Black Lace and Nexus Erotica Titles Postponed in 2010

Sarah Palin's Memoir Move

Novelist Pete Dexter's ARC Confession

Former Secretary of Defense and Author Robert McNamara Has Died

Around 100 Layoffs at Penguin UK

Amazon Applies for E-Book Ad Patent

We're Using More Social Networking Tools

Harper: Sarah Palin's Memoir Will Be "Huge"

Updating Cyrano for the YouTube Generation

A Moment of Appreciation for SIBA's Jewell

My People by Charles R. Smith

Book Stock Watch Adds Apple

HarperCollins Buys YA Novel Co-Written by James Frey

POD Literary Journal

SC Governor Mark Sanford Released from Book Contract

What's Apple Building in There?

Alain de Botton Explains His Critical Comments

Salinger Sequel Defense Plans to Appeal

What Will Happen to Governor Mark Sanford's Second Book?

How the MSM Totally Missed the Zombie Apocalypse

Mary Wilbon, Novelist, RIP

Judge Nixes J.D. Salinger Follow-Up

Brief History of Authors vs. Critics

Author's Antarctica Award

Al Franken Backlash

Indie Books Top Oprah Winfrey's Summer List

Michael Jackson Bio to be Reprinted in U.S.

Barnes & Noble Follows Amazon's E-Book Pricing Model

Why Nicole Peeler Loves Her Cover Art

Hyperion's Barbara Jones Honored by YWCA

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

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