Tag: publishing news
member name: Sara Nelson
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March 05, 2007 09:24 AM EST --
When author and film maven William Goldman had his famous epiphany - "Nobody knows anything" - he was writing about the film business and how movie makers, clueless to what "works" . . .
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February 19, 2007 08:01 AM EST --
Is it publishing's job to create a trend, or simply to make use of it? Sometimes, it seems that book publishers have been more skilled at the latter, producing insta-books, celebrity bios and me-too . . .
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March 19, 2007 08:15 AM EDT --
You may have noticed by now that I have a little "thing" about what I consider the "me-too"-ism of publishing. Why is it that when a book seems to come out of nowhere and suddenly succeeds . . .
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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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February 26, 2007 09:47 AM EST --
One of my favorite little observations about publishing is that often, at the same time that people are going around complaining that the business is quiet, or dead – or that they haven’t read . . .
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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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February 12, 2007 08:39 AM EST --
Pay no attention to what you hear about how the publishing business is going to hell in the proverbial handbasket. Yes, ok, book company profits are not up, in most cases – although a few houses, . . .
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March 12, 2007 10:10 AM EDT --
My first thought, in reading about the trial between film producer Philip Anschutz and author Clive Cussler, is that Anschutz is, at best, very naïve. The mogul suggests that he had high expectations . . .
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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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