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May 18 2005: Interesting book news seems a little scarce at the moment - probably because the largest USA publishing industry trade show of the year, Book Expo America, is just around the corner (June 3rd-5th at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center in New York). Day passes range ...
May 18 2005: The surprise bestseller On Bullshit by Princeton philosophy professor, Harry G Frankfurt, continues to sell well. It was first published, under a different title, in the American Scholar in 1986; but was published with its current, and undoubtedly catchier, title in ...
May 04 2005: According to Publishers Weekly, Amazon requires publishers to contribute co-op dollars of approximately 3% of their Amazon sales for the previous year - or risk not appearing in search results. These dollars can be used in a variety of ways but the most popular for ...
Apr 20 2005: The new Fox TV series, Stacked (starring the well endowed Pamela Anderson, with the tagline - You can't judge a book by its cover, especially when it's only covered by a miniskirt and baby-tee!) launched last week in a six week pilot. Set in a bookstore, the plot ...
Apr 20 2005: With Oprah's success promoting other people's books, many have felt it was only a matter of time before she published a book herself - and now she (or more accurately the publishers of 'O' Magazine: Hearst Magazines & Harpo Print) is doing so. Live Your Best Life, a ...
Apr 06 2005: Amazon appears to be getting ready to start publishing short pieces of work, such as stories and essays, and selling them for micro-payments of 49 cents each. The material would be exclusive to Amazon and not available in printed form. According to Publishers Weekly, ...
Apr 06 2005: After more than three years of class action infringement suits a final settlement has been reached that will award between $10 and $18 million to thousands of freelance writers whose articles were used in electronic databases without their permission.
The settlement...
Apr 06 2005: John Grisham is trying his hand at nonfiction - he is currently at work on a biography of Ronald Keith Williamson, a promising baseball player who spent 12 years on death row before DNA evidence exonerated him. The book has no title as yet and is scheduled for ...
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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