Publishing

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Consequences For Our Actions

Kenneth Kales | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Independent Publishers, Reading, Book Publishing, Future of Publishing, Books, Booksellers, Frankfurt Book Fair, Printers, Books News

If you don't love the book, how can you sell it? My passion for each and every book is in part why I am told by others how successful I am at garnering so much media attention for Kales' publications.

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Frankfurt Book Fair: Deals, E-Books, China, Mandela

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books

Read More: Frankfurt, Publishing, Nelson Mandela, Google Books, Book Publishing, Google Editions, Books, Book Fair, China, Chinese Censorship, Frankfurt Book Fair, Cory Doctorow, Books News

The Frankfurt Book Fair has been going on this week, and it's brought news, controversy, and excitement galore with it. The choice of China for guest ...

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National Book Awards: What Do You Think? (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

The National Book Foundation rolled out the nominations for the 2009 National Book Award on Wednesday, and the winners will be announced November 18. ...

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Jane Friedman's New E-Book Company

The New York Times | Motoko Rich | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Open Road, Publishing, E-Book Publishing, Jane Friedman, Books, E-Books, Digital Publishing, Books News

Sixteen months after stepping down as president and chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Jane Friedman has formed a new company that...

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Will The Lost Symbol Kill Book Publishing?

Bruce Harris | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Blockbuster Books, The Publishing Industry, Book Publishing, The Lost Symbol, Books, Dan Brown, Bestsellers, Books News

Pundits like to opine that blockbusters are really bad for the book business. I think differently. I don't think that blockbusters kill other books -- I think they nurture them.

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Man's Attention at Attention

Anthony Zuiker | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Future of Publishing, Publishing, Writers, Books, New Media, E-Books, Writing, Authors, Books News

Instead of just writing a novel, I decided to pair it with a motion picture and offer a social networking site at the same price as a traditional book.

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10 Things Bookstores Need to Do to Help Themselves

Jason Pinter | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Book Publishing, Books, Authors, Future of Publishing, Bookstores, Reading, Books-News, Books News

I unabashedly love bookstores. But they need to evolve, to change some habits that have long since become obsolete.

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Remixing the Book

Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Out of Control, Kevin Kelly, Remixing, Publishing, Creative Commons, Remix, Writing, Books, Open Source, Web, Andreas Lloyd, Technology, Book, Editing, Books News

Writers will probably always want to keep control of their work, but who is to say that the particular collaboration between a writer and her editor results in the best possible book?

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Terminal Vacation: A Grizzled Veteran of the Publishing World Returns to the Scene of the Crime

Betsy Rapoport | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing Lay-Offs, Publishing, Books, Publishing Veterans, Book Publishing, Freelance Writing, Books News

His preamble was so complimentary, even loving, that it took a moment for me to realize I was being laid off. My fourteen-year run at this publishing company was over. And I was hardly alone.

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Does Maple Syrup Effect Sales?

Robert Miller | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Editors, Publishing, Book Publishing, Authors, Books, Books News

After his book sold nine million copies, Richard Carlson was still a gracious, appreciative guy. He was delighted by our efforts, even when subsequent books didn't match those extraordinary sales.

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Book Parodies: See The Funniest And Send In Your Own

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Eat Pray Love, Bestsellers, Authors, Dangerous Book for Boys, Huffington Book Parodies, Publishing, Parodies, Book Paradies, Lost Symbol, Books, Slidepoll, Twilight, Books News

Maybe it's because it's the end of the longest week we've ever had, launching Books on Monday, but we couldn't help it, these parodies just made us la...

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Literary Rx: Can Books Help in a Health Care Crisis?

Joanne Rendell | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Medical Humanities, Arnold Weinstein, Lennard Davis, Publishing, Books, Health Care Reform, Books News

The health care crisis is also a cultural crisis. It is a crisis of how we think about health, illness and healing in our society.

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A Humble Plea: Sing My Praises

Jesse Katz | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Author Blurbs, Publishing, Book Blurbs, Writing, Authors, Books, Author, Blurbs, Books News

As much as I might fantasize about Junot Díaz or Mary Karr anointing my memoir the breakout book of 2009, how could I possibly expect them to even take note of its existence?

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Kindle Confessions

Jane Isay | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Independent Bookstores, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, E-Readers, Reading, Books, E-Books, Ereaders, Books News

I read like a madwoman. I would get drowsy, and on those long reading afternoons when the Kindle slipped from my hand, it fell silently on the pillow and I slept.

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Choosing the Right Cover

James Atlas | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Book Jackets, Writing, Atlas & Co., Louise Nayer, Book Covers, Books, Book Art, Burned, Books News

I have been obsessed with book covers for as long as I've been obsessed with books -- and that's a really long time, believe me.

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"Can't We All Just Get Along?" -- A Manifesto of Sorts

Steve Ross | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: E-Books, E-Reader, Publishing, Amazon Kindle, Media, Books, Technology, Ereaders, Books News

I have noticed over the past few years a troubling trend entering the picture, a trend that is encapsulated in the blogs posted by Chip O'Brien and Mark Coker.

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Small Publisher Hits It Big

Elaine Petrocelli | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Bellevue Literary Press, Bookselling, Books, Indie Bookstores, Small Publisher, Bookstore, Booker Prize, Literary Prizes, Books News

When our head buyer, Sheryl Cotleur, told me she had fallen in love with a novel, I was amazed that it came from a press that's connected to a hospital that makes most of us think of mental illness.

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Why Anyone Can Publish On Fictionaut

Jurgen Fauth | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Fiction, Publishing, Books, Poetry, Writing, Self-Publishing, Authors, Fictionaut.com, Fictionaut, Books News

Fictionaut offers all the tools of a social network, but the real focus is on the actual writing: any member can post fiction and poetry to the site.

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Are You Part of the 82%?

Arielle Ford | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Reading, Book Publishing, Writing, Authors, Writing a Book, Books News

Several years ago, in a national survey, it was discovered that 82% of Americans say they plan to write a book someday.

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Why New Books Don't Sell on the Kindle: The Price of the Intangible

Chip O'Brien | Posted 10.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Kindle, Reading, E-Readers, Future of Reading, Books, E-Books, Ereaders, Books News

The cost of an e-book has become such a point of contention because it makes distinct something we haven't had to distinguish until now: the price of content, independent from its medium.

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Why We Need $4.00 Books

Mark Coker | Posted 10.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Cheap Books, Book Publishing, Future of Publishing, Publishing Industry, Books, E-Books, Books News

The day has come for publishers to offer a $4.00 book. Most books are too expensive. Compared to lower cost alternative media sources, books are becoming niche consumables like caviar.

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The Man Behind the Man Booker Winner

Amy Hertz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Henry Holt, Google, Authors, Publishing, Mentors, Dutton, Wolf Hall, Booker Prize, Publishers, Book, Jack Macrae, Editors, Hilary Mantel, Books News

In all of publishing and probably much of the world, there's just nobody else like Jack Macrae, the American publisher of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which just won the Booker.

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Terry Holdbrooks: Guantanamo Bay Prison Guard Converted To Islam; Detainee Was Mentor

The Guardian | Sarfraz Manzoor | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Detainees, Terry Holdbrooks, Guantanamo, Gitmo, War on Terror, Traitor?, Muslim, Army, Guantanamo Bay Prison, Gitmo Guard, Religion, Islam, Al-Qaida, Bin Laden, Tipton Trio, Shahada, Mustafa Abdullah, Publishing, The Road to Guantanamo, Gitmo Guard Muslim, Taliban, Cuba, Books, Terrorism, Ground Zero, Islam at Guantanamo, Errachidi, Converted, Convert, Guard, World News

Terry Holdbrooks arrived at Guant�namo detention camp in the summer of 2003 as a godless 19-year-old with a love of drinking, hard rock music and ta...

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When Branding Isn't Enough: The Demise of Gourmet

Elissa Altman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Gourmet, Branding, Publishing, Ruth Reichl, Media News

To quote my cousin Howard, "You can't eat prestige." If you're an executive looking at the bottom line in black and white, how do you monetize the meaning of a brand?

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