Author Archives: Editor

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True to Character — Kurt Vonnegut’s Letters

Rock Opera — ‘Who I Am,’ Pete Townshend’s Memoir

Chris Ware ups the ante with ‘Building Stories’

Downsized, Not Dead (Simon & Schuster restructuring)

Douglas & McIntyre collapse new sign of publishing industry struggles

News Corp. Said to Prepare Bid for Pearson’s Penguin Unit

Dromgoole: New fiction emerges from Texas writers

Nonfiction Previews, Apr. 2013, Pt. 4: From Jones’s Plantagenets to Arana’s Bolivar

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William Faulkner estate sues Sony over Midnight in Paris line

The State of the Short Story

Why ‘Frankenstein’ Is the Greatest Horror Novel Ever

How To Use Craigslist as an Editing Tool

Will Google Glass Require a New Breed of Writers?

Edward Gorey’s gothic tales from the vault

‘Tale of the Heike’ elegantly retells Japanese epic

Graphic Novel Friday: An Anomaly in Science Fiction Storytelling

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Lemony Snicket. Or Is It?

Windows 8 Offers Publishers a New App Platform to Deliver Content

Technology Review Relaunches With Digital Focus

For the Love of Lit and Liz

Amazon Has Big Third Quarter Loss

Kama Sutra Restrictions from 1944

Beyond the Book: How Containers Determine Perception

Gaiman records audiobook for charity

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Study: 40 Percent of Tablet Owners Read Magazines At Least Once a Month

The Access Question

Reaching a Global Audience through Social Networking

Open Access – Recent Developments around the World

FundRef – A Systematic Approach to Linking Research Articles and Funding Information

Scholarly Outreach, Impact and Outcomes

Research Data – An Update on New Initiatives

What Can Journalists do to Uncover Scientific Misconduct?

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Napping in the Library—On Purpose

The Taming of Wuthering Heights

Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman: Why we’re co-writing a zombie novel

LinkedIn Just Went Into the Publishing Business

some hard numbers (self-publishing)

Brain Hive Adds New Publishers to Lending Service

Penguin and Random House in merger talks

‘There will be no more professional writers in the future’

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Children’s Authors and Booksellers Get Noticed at NAIBA

Random House Did Not Mean Own, Exactly

Writer of ‘Spider-Man’ Musical Signs a Book Deal

2012 Whiting Award winners announced

Tom Perrotta on what makes a good short story [video]

Margaret Atwood on her Byliner serial and dystopia fun [video]

Software Company Launches Jamie Magazine

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Are Self-Pubbed Authors Killing the Publishing Industry?

Santa’s pipe put out in new edition of children’s classic

Self-Publishing Sees Triple-Digit Growth Since 2007

Bowker: number of self-published books up 287% since 2006

Thieves rig Barnes & Noble PIN pads to steal credit card data

YA Wednesday: 2012 National Book Award Finalist William Alexander and His “Goblin Secrets”

Children’s books: Be Brave, Little One

Against ‘good reads’

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Scary stories for Halloween: A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles

Simon & Schuster consolidates

Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits
Part 1: Younger Americans’ changing reading habits

Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits
Part 2: Where young people discover and get their books

Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits
Part 3: Library use and importance

Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits
Part 4: Non-e-book borrowers

Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits
Part 5: Looking to the future

Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits
About this research

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Books of Wonder Needs To Raise $100,000 to Survive

Judith Viorst to Adapt Lulu and the Brontosaurus as a Musical

Sexual assault essay raises questions about anonymity, invention

Facebook donates $250,000 to help fight cybercrime (using money acquired from spammers)

Independent Vancouver publisher D&M files for bankruptcy

The lost art of letter-writing

Harlequin signs Victoria Fox for five titles

Book Slam to release second volume

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Starbucks Builds a Library-Themed Pop-Up Store in Tokyo

Graham on TS Eliot shortlist

A Glimpse of Ray Bradbury (and Groucho)

Superman quits Daily Planet day job to go online

Presenting October’s “Ebook Cover Design Awards”

Up Close: Bright Lights, Gig City in Chattanooga | Library by Design

Paywalls – to build or tear down?

TS Eliot prize for poetry announces ‘fresh, bold’ shortlist

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Libraries in the Digital Age

Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits

Clark Kent makes a major life change in new ‘Superman’

U-T San Diego Executive Backtracks on L.A. Times Purchase: ‘We’re Not Interested’

Pussy Riot band members sent to remote prison camps

Submissive memoir to Ebury

Oldest books prize seeks best ever winner

P D James wins at Women of the Year Awards

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Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual Aids Psychologist’s Experiment

The merger of two big publishers shows the book business’s challenges

8-Year-Old Nancy Drew Stars in New Graphic Novel Series

L.A. Indie Book Publishers Are Thriving. How Is That Possible?

If Self-Publishing Books is So Easy, Why Do We Work So Hard At It?

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Hardcover Children’s & YA Revenues Up Nearly 30%

‘Reflected in You’ Tops ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ in Every Way, Sylvia Day’s Crossfire Series to Be the Next Erotic Hit

Previously Unpublished Truman Capote Story in Vanity Fair

Libraries Respond to Hurricane Sandy, Offering Refuge, WiFi, and Services to Needy Communities

Adult Trade Up in July

Disney Lucasfilm Purchase Leaves Comics Licenses in Doubt

Stephen King Story Adapted as Free Web Comic

Richard Rushfield Opens New LA Bureau for BuzzFeed

‘Less is not-less.’ Joyce Carol Oates Tweets About Twitter

SF/Fantasy Debut of the Month | October 15, 2012

The 2012 Academy of American Poets Prizes Ceremony: Poets You Should Read

Humble eBook Bundle Raises More Than $1 Million

Cora Carmack Rises on Self-Published Bestsellers List

Young People Frequent Libraries, Study Finds

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California Digital Library Partners with Public Knowledge Project on Open-Access Software Development

Seattle Librarians Fact Checking Voter Guide

Print’s Poetry Still a Draw for the Publisher Felix Dennis

Advice to Aspiring Authors

Random Words of Ownership

Carlyle Group to Buy Getty Images for $3.3 Billion

Time Out New York Partners With Start-Up for Online Course Offering

PeerPeer review: The nuts and bolts

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Wapshott Press is seeking a book publicity intern or two to blog about books and book industry, like this, for us. Please drop me a line at editor AT wapshottpress DOT com if you would be interested. Thanks.

Paywall startup Tinypass adds metered subscriptions for small publishers

Have We Already Reached “Peak E-book?”

SURVEY: Is the E-book Boom Over in Mature Markets?

’50 Shades of Grey’ heats up Mexico

E&P’s 2012 Publisher of the Year: Bill Masterson Jr.

Emerging Markets are Key to Penguin Random House Merger

Pirated novelist gets on board with rogue translator

Penguin merger minuses could be pluses for indies

Springer CEO Says “Free Beer” Era for Internet Ending

Is Amazon Really Buying Brazil’s Biggest Bookstore Chain?

Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist announced

Newsweek had unique troubles as magazine industry recovers

Vintage’s The Rage named Best Crime Novel of the Year

Pearson begins new literacy push

Self-published crime for TFP

Three debuts for Hot Key

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