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May 6, 2009
- Penguin Reports 6.7 Percent Worldwide Revenue Increase Even though worldwide sales dropped at three of the US's five largest publishers during 2008, the top five were still profitable worldwide. Most dramatically, Penguin Group USA posted increased revenues--bolstering the company's worldwide performance. Publishers Weekly reports that the top five American trade publishers--Random House, ...
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March 25, 2009
- Trade 'excludes' 20m readers 25.03.09 Benedicte Page Publishers, retailers and librarians are missing out on a potential market of 20m consumers because the book world is too intimidating, according to research conducted by HarperCollins, the Trade Publishers Council and the National Year of Reading (NYR). The research, to be published this week, looked at attitudes to books in the C2DE ...
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March 15, 2009
- Presented to the ABA Board of Directors at its March 2009 Meeting History In 1978 Douglas Adams envisioned a slim electronic folio that contained all the useful knowledge of all the people on all the planets in the universe. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as Adams imagined it, would let you carry in your pocket a device that functioned like an amalgam of Google and an e-book. And ...
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March 12, 2009
- As I tracked myself down while filling in the Google forms for the Google Book Search Settlement, I came across this cover for one of my books. It is the Italian translation of THE BONNER DECEPTION. I've hunted for it before, so I don't know why it came up this time. Still, it is my one naughty cover, and it pleases me. THE BONNER DECEPTION centers around a NATO Military Complex, and the ...
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March 3, 2009
- This week we turn to the Big Apple for the “Business Question of the Week,” Nicole Little from New York asks:What advice would you give to a self-published author looking to get a book deal from a major publishing company? What are some steps that a self-published author needs to take to position his or herself for a book deal? Omar Tyree Answers:Nicole, as the famous song and acronym from a ...
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February 21, 2009
- Rodes Fishburne list of the top ten questions a novelist can expect to hear on his or her book tour, based on his experiences visiting bookstores to read from his debut novel, Going to See the Elephant.http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/stop_us_if_you_think_that_youve_heard_this_one_before_108759.aspIs your novel fiction or non-fiction? Can you make it out to "Dear blank"? ...
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February 3, 2009
- Reed Drops Canadian Publishing Events by Jim Milliot -- Publishers Weekly, 2/2/2009 11:33:00 AMFollowing the defection of many of the country’s largest publishers as well as a growing number of independent houses, Reed Exhibitions Canada has closed BookExpo Canada, the annual publishing trade event. Reed will also not move forward with plans to start a new consumer-oriented event in the fall ...
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January 27, 2009
- Fashion once went on sale at the most inconvenient times. This I learned at age 10. That winter, every girl in the entire world --or my immediate Minneapolis neighborhood --rocked a fluffy, fake fur hat. Never mind that the topper looked as though a white rabbit had artfully arranged itself atop one's head. And promptly died. It was fashion. My mother, practical in money matters, suggested ...
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December 23, 2008
- Just like non-literary businesses, the vast majority of publishing companies are currently owned by large conglomerates. ”Name” publishers, already serving as parasols for groups of smaller imprints with lesser glory and for so-called boutiques, are owned by even larger umbrellas. I learned from a fascinating article in the Los Angeles Times (Tom Engelhardt, “Closing the Book,” Sunday, ...
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December 23, 2008
- I do not understand some people. Apparently, everyone in the world sends out email blasts to their "friends" on social networking sites, and that (i thought) was totally acceptable. But when I did it to announce the release of my book, I got a very nasty email from someone who believed he was being spammed. Well, IMHO if you do not want to be blasted with notices of releases, reviews, ...
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