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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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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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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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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 02, 2007 09:06 AM EDT --
The group that gathered last Thursday at New York Public Library’s Science Industry and Business Library for the unveiling of former Random House honcho and by now industry curmudgeon/visionary Jason . . .
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June 25, 2007 09:28 AM EDT --
I haven't seen A Mighty Heart yet, and I probably will – but it isn't without some trepidation, despite the good advance reviews the movie has gotten. I'm often afraid, or at least anxious . . .
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June 18, 2007 07:16 AM EDT --
It's the age-old, unanswerable question, but one company, at least, is trying to address the publishing version. A recent study conducted last spring by an outfit called contentconnections.com suggests, . . .
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June 11, 2007 06:39 AM EDT --
How can you tell it's a book fair if there's no complaining? By that definition, last weekend's BEA was certainly a book fair. The Expo had not even officially started when the drum beat began: . . .
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May 28, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
The summer begins, and with it, the dread "summer reading." I say "dread" because for those of us in and around the book business, the choices we make of what to read for pleasure are . . .
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May 21, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
I think it's fair to say that what preoccupies the minds of most book people is the question of which books sell, and why. The rumble around this issue has gotten louder in recent weeks, amid news . . .
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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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May 07, 2007 09:41 PM EDT --
Consider this: a couple of years ago, Tina Brown, the blond, British, iconic media figure known for paying high fees to writers for colorful, opinionated magazine articles received, from Doubleday, a reported . . .
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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