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Jul 07 2009: The Daily Beast reports on the growing phenomenon of authors marketing themselves directly to book clubs by chatting with, sometimes, hundreds of book clubs by phone. A process that author and "Buzz, Balls and Hype" blogger MJ Rose describes as "Suicide by Bookclub" (...
Jul 02 2009: Publishers Lunch reports that while there are a number of issues of contention between the late Stieg Larsson's heirs and his partner of thirty years Eva Gabrielsson, one matter has unfortunately been resolved. Both parties say "we have an agreement not to publish" the ...
Jul 02 2009: J.D. Salinger has scored a legal victory in his attempt to block publication of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by Fredrik Colting under the pseudonym John David California. Lawyers for Salinger contended that the novel was derivative of Catcher in the Rye and ...
Jul 02 2009: The 'e-fairness' battle is gathering momentum. Rhode Island's govenor has now signed the state's budget becoming the second state after New York to require online retailers with affiliates in the state to collect tax on sales made to in-state residents over the ...
Jul 01 2009: The publishing world is closing following the Northshire bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont - the first independent bookstore to install an Espresso Book Machine, that can print books on demand in a matter of minutes.
The machine, which the staff lovingly ...
Jul 01 2009: Following closely on the heels of Amazon's decision to end its "business relationships" with marketing affiliates in North Carolina, the company has made a similar move in Rhode Island. The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon "sent an email to its Rhode Island ...
Jun 29 2009: As threatened, Amazon.com has "ended business relationships" with its marketing affiliates in North Carolina so that it can avoid having to collect sales tax on sales to people in the state.
Jun 24 2009: Ohio Governor Strickland has proposed cuts that would cut in half the budget of 175 of the 251 library systems in Ohio. Yesterday, Library Journal posted an open letter to the Governor.
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