Feb 26 2007: Venerable publishing house Wiley is celebrating its bicentennial this year. Charles Wiley opened his shop in New York City in 1807, the same year Beethoven composed his 5th Symphony. Since then Wiley has been responsible for publishing many of the English speaking ...
Feb 22 2007: Controversy is swarming over the Newbery Award winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky, written by public librarian Susan Patron, about a 10-year-old girl, which contains the anatomically correct word "scrotum". The furor seemed so ridiculous that BookBrowse has held ...
Feb 21 2007: Today marks the centenary of the birth of the poet Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H.) Auden, born Feb 21, 1907.
Feb 16 2007: The bankruptcy court has approved Perseus Book Group's offer to take over the distribution contracts of all Publishers Group West (PGW) publishing clients that have signed distribution agreements with the company. The decision, handed down late Friday afternoon, ends...
Feb 12 2007: Fred Mustard Stewart, author of bestselling novels such as The Mephisto Waltz, Six Weeks and Ellis Island, all of which became movies or TV miniseries, died Feb 7 aged 74
Feb 08 2007: The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney has won the Costa Book of the Year Award (formerly the Whitbread Award). Stef beat novelist William Boyd, biographer Brian Thompson, poet John Haynes and children's writer Linda Newbery to take the first-ever Costa Book of the...
Feb 08 2007: According to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), net book sales in
2006 were effectively static year on year at approximately $10,000 billion,
although net book sales fell in December by 0.6%.
Big gains were shown by e-books, up 24% year on year ...
Feb 07 2007: National Book Network has proposed taking over the distribution contracts of PGW clients, offering to pay 85 cents for every dollar owed publishers in the AMS bankruptcy and asking for a three-year contract extension. The proposal, compares to the 70 cents/four year ...
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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