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Jul 29 2008: Shelf Awareness reports that Goodnight Bush, the unauthorized parody of Goodnight Moon by Erich Origen and Gan Golan, has more than 100,000 copies in print and is even stocked at the official Guantanamo Bay gift shop.
Jul 29 2008: Gavin Menzies sparked headlines across the globe in 2002 with the claim that Chinese sailors reached America 70 years before Christopher Columbus in his book, 1421: The Year China Discovered America.
In a new book, 1434: The Year A Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed To...
Jul 28 2008: Randy Pausch, co-author of the bestselling The Last Lecture, died on July 25. He was 47 and had been battling pancreatic cancer.
A computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, Pausch gave a talk last September modeled on the kind where professors are asked to ...
Jul 23 2008: UK supermarket chain Asda, owned by Walmart, has been selling Harry Potter and the Deatlhy Hallows for the absurd price of 1 UK pound ($2 USA), a move that is feared will undermine the Harry Potter brand. Julian Rivers, a former chief executive of wholesaler Bertrams, ...
Jul 22 2008: Publishers Weekly's regular "By The Numbers" olumn focuses on children's books, noting that over 900 million children's books sold in the USA in 2007 for a total market value of $3.7 billion. The number of new titles and revisions published in 2007 was 30,...
Jul 22 2008: Publishers Weekly reports on the imminent closure of the standalone Sunday book review section in the Los Angeles Times. Nancy Sullivan, executive director of corporate communications at the paper, confirmed that the book review staff has been cut from five to three and...
Jul 21 2008: The Guardian reports on the modest feud between Salman Rushdie and Malcolm Gluck. Rushdie recently claimed to have signed 1,000 copies of The Enchantress of Florence in 57 minutes (full signatures, not just initials), breaking the previous book signing record held by ...
Jul 18 2008: Independent bookstores in the USA and their customers are invited to take part in a unique reading experience this coming October. Booksellers will host 24-hour reading marathons in their stores, designed to highlight the importance of reading to our culture, as well ...
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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