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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
Amy Hertz

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
Elissa Altman

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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Political Celebrity and Publishing Tastes

David Colbert | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Political Writing, Politics, Writing, Al Franken, Books, Fdr, Bestsellers, Books News
David Colbert

Angry books sell on emotion. That's why they'll always sell better than cooler, thoughtful books. It's also why they're soon forgotten.

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Attention Fellow Book Lovers: HuffPost's New Books Section Is Here

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: E-Books, Book Reviews, Publishing, Book Publishing, Huffpost Books, Publishing Industry, Books, New York Review of Books, Ereaders, Books News
Arianna Huffington

My love affair with books is a long one. As a little girl growing up in Athens, I remember sending my friends home early from my fifth birthday party because all that celebrating was keeping me away from my books. Who needed friends and cake? I had my books! Since I was 21, there hasn't been a time when I wasn't researching or writing a book. Until now. So, instead of my signing another book contract, we are launching a Books section, in partnership with the New York Review of Books, where you'll find the latest book-related news and blog posts, book reviews, all sorts of special features, and, of course, articles from the New York Review of Books. So if you love books, reading, and good writing, please check out HuffPost Books.

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The Future of Publishing Isn't Rocket Science (It's Sustainability)

Makenna Goodman | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Sustainable Business, Book Publishing, Chelsea Green, Future of Publishing, Publishing Industry, Books, Farming, Vermont, Ereaders, Books News
Makenna Goodman

Publishing is not a dying business; it's a changing business. It's a business going through literary puberty, fiscal adolescence, and management hell. It's a business that needs to grow up, in other words.

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Why the Digital Revolution is Missing the Big Picture

Jason Pinter | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Iphone, Publishing, Kindle, Books, E-Books, Future of Publishing, E-Reader, Digital Books, Reading, Irex, Ereaders, Ebooks, Books News
Jason Pinter

By marketing the Kindle to me -- i.e. 'adults' who already read regularly -- publishing is merely doubling down on the biggest problem facing the industry: not enough people read books.

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Books: The Watering Hole

Amy Hertz | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Huffington Post Books, Publishing, Huffpost Books, Reading, Book Publishing, Books, Future of Books, Books News
Amy Hertz

When Arianna asked me to think about a Books section for The Huffington Post, I thought, why a new books section, why Huffington Post, why now?

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Sarah Palin Memoir: The Power Of Political Books

The Big Money | Marion Maneker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Going Rogue, Books, Sarah Palin Book, E-Books, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Memoir, Political Books, Bestsellers, Books News

Dan Gross, my colleague at Newsweek and Slate, pinged me the other morning after he had read the reports that Sarah Palin's new book--suddenly announc...

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Irene Vilar, Abortion Addict Speaks

The Huffington Post | Irene Vilar | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Abortion, Irene Vilar, Publishing, Impossible Motherhood, Books, Writing, Abortion Addict, Addiction, Memoir, Books News

At what point when trying to get a book published and failing at it does one say let's shelve the damned thing? The evening I got a status report summ...

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Children's Books Reissued: Classics Get An Update

The Wall Street Journal | KATHERINE ROSMAN | Posted 12.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Niche Publishing, Children's Publishing, Publishing, Reissued Books, Universe Publishing, Books, Children's Books, Children's Books Reissued, Rizzoli, Books News

When the children's travelogue This Is Australia was first published in 1970, an illustration showing a desolate street and small stretch of stores wa...

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The End Of Simon & Schuster's Teen Imprint

Crain's New York Business | Matthew Flamm | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Books, Simon, Book Publishing, Simon & Schuster, Financial Crisis @Y:Business, Simon Spotlight, Books News

When Simon Spotlight Entertainment launched in the fall of 2004, it was hailed as an innovative attempt to target readers in their teens and early 20s...

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Writers Should Think Like Bono

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: U2, Writers, Books, Bono, Death of Books, Publishing, Kindle, Technology and Writing, Writing, Reader Technology, Progressive Companies, Entertainment News
Tom Matlack

The books of the 21st century will no longer be sold by an agent to a publishing house who tries to sell them to bookstores. The most successful books of the future will look more like a U2 concert.

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Sarah Palin's E-Book Delayed; Publisher Stressing Hardcover Sales Of "Going Rogue"

Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Book, E-Reader, Kindle, Hardcover, Associated Press, Going Rogue, Harper, Harpercollins, NewsCorp., E-Book, Sarah Palin, Amazon, Media News

For the second time this month, a publisher has decided to delay the electronic-book release of a major new title in hopes of maximizing hardcover sal...

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Co-Creating a Monster

Victoria Rosner | Posted 11.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Authors, Women Writers, Publishing, Frankenstein, Books, Collaboration, Entertainment News
Victoria Rosner

Random House recently published a new edition of Frankenstein with a surprising change: The cover now reads "Mary Shelley (with Percy Shelley)." Why is Percy now getting marquee billing?

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21st Century Book Publishing

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Book Publishing, Publishing, Books, Ereaders, Media News
Tom Matlack

The way we write and think about writing books has to change for them to remain relevant in the 21st century. The head in the sand, I am an artist don't bother me with marketing attitude won't work.

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What Is a Book?

Hugh McGuire | Posted 11.25.2009 | Technology

Read More: Literature, Iphone, App, Publishing, Apple, Books, Ebook, Media, Bunny Munro, Nick Cave, Apt Studios, Technology News
Hugh McGuire

What matters is how we -- readers, publishers, technologists -- achieve what we want. Paper books aren't the only game in town anymore, and maybe in certain cases they aren't the best game.

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The Secret Lives of Women and their Book Groups

Joanne Rendell | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Book Groups, Book Publishing, Publishing, Women's Friendships, Irene S. Levine, Living News
Joanne Rendell

A book group offers so much more than just reading -- especially to women. They offer an escape from families, demanding kids, the laundry, and the drone of a ball game.

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Dan Brown's Lost Symbol: NYTimes Breaks Embargo

Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Reviews, Books, New York Times Embargo, New York Times, Lost Symbol, Lost Symbol Embargo, Dan Brown, Books News

The Times did it again, they published a review of a book that was embargoed before publication date. Or did the publisher encourage it by imposing an...

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Why We Are Subjected to Beatlemania, Again

Tamara Conniff | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Publishing, John Lennon, Beatlemania, Beatles Rock Band, Copyright, Rock Band, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, European Union, United Kingdon, Shakespeare, Sony, Entertainment News
Tamara Conniff

I love the Beatles, don't get me wrong. Paul McCartney in concert is a religious experience. But I'm over Beatlemania. I want it to stop. Why now? A little thing called copyright.

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Notes on Book Publishing in a Socially Networked World

Stephen Elliott | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, The Adderall Diaries, Books, Media News
Stephen Elliott

A lot of authors (and book publicists) have asked about the Lending Library, wondering if it's a good or bad thing to let anyone who wants to read an advance copy of your book for free.

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God and Man and Mohammed at Yale

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mohammed Cartoons, Jr., Islam, Yale University, Publishing, William Buckley, Censorship, Politics News
Joan Z. Shore

This is worse than censorship: this is self-censorship. This is knowing what is right and appropriate and deliberately overriding it, and then trying to rationalize the decision.

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Rod Blagojevich Adds Author to His Resume

The New York Times | MONICA DAVEY | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Blago, Publishing, Blagojevich Book, Rod Blagojevich, Books, Illinois, Media, Blagojevich Family, Media News

Normally, people charged with crimes wait until their cases are resolved to write memoirs -- saving themselves and their lawyers legal headaches. But ...

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The Shelf Talker: Lorrie Moore, Rebecca Solnit and Silly Putty

Kevin Smokler | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Lorrie Moore, Book Publishing, Publishing, Books, Kaya Oakes, Rebecca Solnit, Reading, Cursing, Media News
Kevin Smokler

Does the name Lorrie Moore mean anything to you? To us, she's only like the best short story writer ever.

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Hello Britain, Meet Chicago: Granta Takes a Toddlin' Town Tour

Victoria Lautman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: John Freeman, Publishing, Chicago, Aleksandar Hemon, Alex Kotlowitz, Chris Ware, Sandra Cisneros, Barack Obama, Granta, Granta Chicago Issue, Granta Chicago, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

It's Chicago's turn to inspire an issue of Granta, the esteemed British literary journal that seems to instantly confer upon the subscriber a mantle of elevated intellect, or at least the appearance of it. I talked about the issue with editor John Freeman.

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