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Mar 31 2008: On 3/28 Publishers Weekly reported that BookSurge, Amazon’s print-on-demand subsidiary, is making an offer that most publishers would like to refuse, but don’t feel they can. According to talks with several pod houses, Amazon has told them that unless their titles are ...
Mar 31 2008: The winner of the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of 2007 has been announced. The winner is the self-help manual "If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs", which took an impressive one-third of the 8,500 votes cast. The runner up, "I was ...
Mar 26 2008: A new state law in Indiana that requires sellers of adult material to register with the state has bookstore owners fuming about government censorship and threatening a legal challenge. "This lumps us in with businesses that sell things that you can't even mention in a ...
Mar 26 2008: The New York Times blog "Paper Cuts" offers an amusing piece on the Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing ....
Mar 25 2008: The 'Authors for Autism Research' auction is now live at Ebay. Seventeen authors including Lee Child, Louis de Bernieres, Ken Follett, Jodi Picoult and James Sallis, are taking part in the auction. The winning bidders will have their names included as a character in ...
Mar 24 2008: Barnes & Noble has launched Quamut.com, a how-to Web site offering free online guides on more than 1,000 topics. Quamut, pronounced kwomut, is Latin for "how to". The company simultaneously publishes all content in two formats: as HTML online and as downloadable PDFs;...
Mar 24 2008: The finalists for this year's Hugo Awards have been published. The list includes Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union, which has also been nominated for an Edgar and a Nebula. The Hugos, first awarded in 1953, recognize excellence in the field of science ...
Mar 21 2008: The annual BookSense awards have been announced with little in the way of surprises. Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns won for fiction; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver for nonfiction; and The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and ...
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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