Author Archives: Editor

If you are LA, you might want to go to this:

LA Art Book Fair.

Here’s the LA Times article about it.

Opening: Thursday, January 31, 6–9 pm
Friday, February 1, 11-5 pm
Saturday, February 2, 11 am–6 pm
Sunday, February 3, 12 pm–6 pm

ZINES!!! Maybe I shouldn’t go to this. I might not be able to control myself.

Book news is now under Our Latest Release on the left sidebar and has it’s own Book News page.

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A global battle is brewing between Google and publishing companies who say they should be paid for extracts of newspaper articles displayed in search results

Neil Gaiman Writing American Gods Pilot for HBO

Suzanne Collins follows ‘Hunger Games’ with ‘Year of the Jungle’

Dolly Parton Shoots Down Nickname ‘Double D,’ Calls Herself ‘Motivational Speaker’ With ‘Dream More’ Memoir

Reporters Without Borders launches site for censored content

20-30% of Fifty Shades of Grey Buyers Are Male

7 Writers Who Died Young

Why I can’t find my favourite books

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Little Big People (writing groups for adults and children have things in common)

Why the NYT is Wrong to put a Social-Media Muzzle on its Journalists

Sense about Science: Christmas Reading Room 2012

Scientists Seek New Credibility Outside of Established Journals

E L James Is Publishers Weekly’s Person of the Year

NYT: The 10 Best Books of 2012

Hunger Games author turns to personal Vietnam war story

Focusing on the OED’s missing words is missing the point

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Our Twitter fiction festival reviews

Twitter Fiction Prompts for the Twitter Fiction Festival

Writer Derek Haas on the Three Things You Can Do in a Novel But Not Onscreen

Bloomsbury pulps stock after Orange Prize error

Mexico’s Largest Children’s Library Opens with 3,000 E-books

Blinded by dollar signs? PW names E.L. James person of the year (Can’t wait to see what Ms. James does for a second act)

She’s Got Some Big Ideas (Maria Popova)

The Twitter Fiction Festival: Making the most of 140 characters

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J.R.R. Tolkien Estate Files $80M Suit Against The Hobbit Producers

‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Author Slams ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ Claims Her Book is ‘Much More Erotic’ Than E.L. James Trilogy

How Much Should Self-Publishing Cost?

’Twilight’ Fan-Fiction Becoming a Genre? Another Erotic Edward, Bella Story, ‘Beautiful Bastard,’ to Release February 2013

Todd Akin May Write A Book For Next Job Amid Losing Senate Race and ‘New Fame’

Simon & Schuster’s New Self-Pub Venture Raises Eyebrows on Cost

‘The Last Man’ by Vince Flynn Bumps ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ on Bestseller Lists [REVIEWS]

Simon & Schuster Joins Forces With Author Solutions To Rip Off Writers

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As You Like It: “the happiest of Shakespeare’s comedies.”

Where Is YA Going? Scholastic’s Experts Advise

Simon & Schuster Creates Self-Publishing Unit, Archway Publishing “Devu Gandhi of S&S Digital is managing the Archway-ASI relationship for S&S. Fees to participate in Archway vary according to different packages, but in general have the following ranges: Fiction: $1,999 – $14,999; Nonfiction: $1,999 – $14,999; Business: $2,199 – $24,999; and Children’s: $1,599 – $8,499.” That’s not self-publishing, that’s vanity press w/S&S taking half the royalties (if there are any). Shame on you S&S, shame shame shame.

Simon & Schuster Opens Self-Publishing Service (GalleyCat)

Hamlet rewritten as choose-your-own-adventure game book

Software and Editorial Board Ready, PeerJ Announces Call for Papers

A Hipster’s Guide (to fiction or something)

HarperCollins Launches New Imprint for the YA Market

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McGraw-Hill Sells Education Business for $2.5 Billion

Wanda Coleman needs your help

Mo Yan’s Nobel nod a ‘catastrophe’, says fellow laureate Herta Müller

Library Paints Hobbit Door Over Entrance

Man of Steel will set up Justice League movie, director says

Elevator Pitches: How to Talk About Your Book

Former OED editor covertly deleted thousand of words, book claims

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Creating and Destroying the Universe in Twenty-Nine Nights

Graywolf Press in ‘New Era’

Wiley Museum of Social Media

Open Access Terminology Unlocked

Does PR Impact Citations?

Eight Wiley Authors among 2012 Nobel Laureates

Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’ 50 years on

Julian Assange’s book an exercise in dystopian musings

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Tolkien Estate Files Copyright Infringement Suit Against Warner Bros. and Partners

Who He Is: A Memoir by Pete Townshend

Try the Cut-Up Machine (or don’t)

Review of Kazakhstan’s book market

‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie Casting: Robert Pattinson Reveals, ‘I am playing Christian Grey’ While Fans Want Real News

Sixty Years of Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea

The graphic novel’s spectacular rise: from kids’ comics to the Costa prize

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Forget ‘Hunger Games,’ ‘Goblin Secrets’ Wins National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

Bad sex awards 2012 shortlist leaves out JK Rowling and EL James

What If the Twilight Saga Was a Tragedy?

Publishing merger? Come on, everybody’s doing it

Storify launches a redesign, but the threat of competition from Twitter still looms

‘The Best American Comics 2012′ is serious fun

50 Free Books To Be Thankful For

Miller’s Novelade Stand Hits Nashville

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Thomson Reuters Hosts Inaugural Techstreet Standards Publishers Innovation Forum to Address Future Industry Challenges

Why France is shunning the ebook

Bookstore Installs Random Book Dispenser

Secrets of TS Eliot’s tragic first marriage and liaisons to be told at last

Looking for a great self-published book? Here’s where to find it

Academic Librarians Get Graphic

FBI Raids Main Branch of the Detroit Public Library Looking for Financial Records

News Corp. Interested in Buying Simon & Schuster

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Two New Sketchbooks Cover Comics Worldwide

French government demands £160m taxes from Amazon

Fifty Shades of Grey nominated for National Book award

A True Princess of the Publishing Industry

Witold Gombrowicz: Bacacay

Boston Punk from the Female Fan’s Perspective: Loretta Baretta and Carmen Monoxide’s Miscarriage Magazine, 1977-1978

What Is New Adult Fiction?

Parnassus Books Celebrates First Year

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Cat at centre of bitter children’s book scrap

Some Notes on the Novella

The Reading Life: In praise of the novella

Penguin-Random House merger both good, bad: Industry

MyCityLives pivots to create business solution for publishers

William Faulkner vs. Woody Allen…And Northrop Grumman?

Disney To Acquire Lucasfilm & Promises Star Wars Episode 7 (First Mavel, now Lucasfilm. What next, Disney? Um… What’s left?)

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On Cambodia, Trauma and Making it Real for YA Readers

Pearson, Bertelsmann confirm publishing tie-up

BBC Books plans Dr Who celebrations

What Macbeth tells us about the digital world

Paul McCartney: Yoko Ono did not break up the Beatles

Strong showing for FutureBook Innovation awards

‘Reflected in You,’ By Sylvia Day Tops ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ on Bestseller Lists

Why Should You Publish via Printing … Let Me Count the Ways!