Tag: book business
member name: Sara Nelson
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April 30, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
It comes as no surprise - some would say it’s about time - that one of the themes running through many of the discussions at the London Book Fair the other week was the use of the Internet in the . . .
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July 16, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
Remember how we used to have to wait until Labor Day, or at least late July, to declare one title THE book of the summer? We haven’t had that pleasure much in recent years, and we for sure won’t . . .
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July 30, 2007 11:52 AM EDT --
It couldn't have come at a more opportune time. Here it is, mid-summer, and many of us are gearing down for a slow August, business-wise, which also translates as an opportunity to read all the books . . .
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July 23, 2007 04:05 PM EDT --
That former president Bill Clinton had signed on with Knopf to do another book was a surprise to no one—in fact, the plans for book #2 had been announced months ago. That the new one will not be . . .
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April 09, 2007 09:53 AM EDT --
In the current issue of Harper’s Magazine, novelist Cynthia Ozick takes off on - what else? - the state of “serious” fiction in this country. Beginning with the now decade-old feud between . . .
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May 14, 2007 09:30 AM EDT --
The recent announcements that several newspapers are making major changes in the way they cover, or, more accurately, won’t cover, books provoked the predictable reaction in Publishing Land. For . . .
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April 16, 2007 07:54 AM EDT --
One of my favorite little corollaries to one of my favorite little screeds about how we should publish fewer books in any given year is the idea that we should also publish more in paperback original. . . .
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April 23, 2007 09:19 AM EDT --
Out of the many, many comments we received on our Web site, after asking about Don Imus’s erstwhile importance as a promoter of books, my favorite has to be from the bookseller in North Carolina . . .
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March 26, 2007 08:50 AM EDT --
It can be hard to remember – especially now, as the Harry Potter hoopla has begun and may even soon drown out the noise surrounding The Secret – that most books don’t seem to get much . . .
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August 06, 2007 09:54 AM EDT --
Except for the very obvious one above, I’m not going to make any punny jokes about Rolling Stone Keith Richards’ recent $7+ million memoir deal with Little, Brown. I’m not going to suggest . . .
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August 13, 2007 03:17 PM EDT --
Like most of us publishing watchers, I’ve taken only a desultory interest in what happened to O.J. Simpson’s If I Did It, since it was killed late last year by HarperCollins. I wasn’t . . .
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