BUZZ BOOKS 2013 will also be released in an international edition for non-U.S. distribution only, and includes excerpts from these 17 titles: Part One: Fiction Adam Langer, The Salinger Contract (Open Road Media) Peter Gethers, Ask Bob (Henry Holt) Dianne Dixon, Book of Someday (Sourcebooks Landmark) Nicola Griffith, Hild (Farrar,…
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Buzz Books 2013: Fall/Winter Titles
BUZZ BOOKS 2013: Fall/Winter includes excerpts from: Part One: Fiction Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens (Random House) Peter Gethers, Ask Bob (Henry Holt) Bob Shacochis, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul (Atlantic Monthly Press) Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies (St. Martin’s Press) Carla Norton, Edge Of Normal (Minotaur Books) Pierre Lemaitre, Alex (MacLehose…
Kohn's Komic Appeal
Here are all seven pages of Bob Kohn's graphic appeal reply (or just download the PDF). …
Harper Starts Selling Discountable eBooks Under New Agreements--At Higher List Prices
At least some new pricing for ebooks is starting in advance of any indication from the court whether an appeal might stay formal imposition of the settlement with the Department of Justice. Spokesperson Erin Crum told Publishers Lunch Monday afternoon, "HarperCollins has reached agreements with our e-retailers that are consistent…
The Agency Lawsuit Index
This is a partial-index only of Publishers Lunch reports within the "Agency Lawsuits" section. It focuses on guiding readers to key original documents in the four different legal actions (the Federal lawsuit; the state lawsuit; the class-action lawsuit; and the EU investigation). In each sub-section, links are listed starting with…
S&S Press Release: "Simon & Schuster and God Ink Deal"
New York, N.Y., November 30, 2010 -- It was announced today that the rights to a new memoir by God - Supreme Being, wellspring of existence, quintessence of glory, and source of everlasting life - have been acquired by Simon & Schuster. "We are pleased and honored to add…
The Most Marketplace: Making Contact
Inspired by a weekend Twitter post from agent Collen Lindsay ("Book Editors: Make sure your listing in Publishers Marketplace is current. It's free for you to add your contact info") today's PublishersMarketplace.com feature highlight is on our popular Contact database. Increasingly the database is used as the "industry phone book"…
On Dalrymple
Provided by Hachette Book Group: Dennis M. Dalrymple died Thursday, March 5, in New York City. He was 67. He is survived by his wife, Jamie Raab, and their children, son Ian Dalrymple and daughter Lola Dalrymple. The cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage. In a forty year career…
Let's Play the Amazon Guessing Game
How can we get a handle on what Amazon's mysterious Kindle statistic--a unit-based percentage of a percentage of titles, where books comprise an unspecified percentage of overall media sales--actually looks like? Given all the variables it's very hard, but below is one potential formula, and you can adjust the assumptions…
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