Archives for July 2004

No Gephardt for Kerry; No Proprietary Classics for Amazon It’s not quite up there with the NY Post earlier this week, but the Ann Arbor News has substantially corrected their story cited here yesterday about classics lines being produced by the Ann Arbor Media Group. As company official Jim Edwards confirms, “There is no agreement […]

Classic Competition Heats Up As Amazon Commission 200-Title Line, Plus Separate Annotated Editions (and the Same Packager is Producing Classics for Costco, Too) Much of today’s news is a testament to the things you can learn on the Internet, sometimes in the most unusual places. Buried in an article in the Ann Arbor News, we […]

Also New and Improved Here’s another cool upgrade at PublishersMarketplace. Now you can search our contact database by location, so you can focus your searches by city, state, or even zip code. Contact page My Life: Week 2 After two weeks of collecting data, Nielsen Bookscan is reporting year-to-date sales for Bill Clinton’s MY LIFE […]

New and/or Improved We have a few PublishersMarketplace updates for you: * Our genius webmaster has added a cool pop-up “bestseller history” feature to our very popular new bestseller section. So now the same way you can view a complete “tracker” sales history, you can also bring up and analyze a book’s complete bestseller list […]

Catching a Famous Goat The WSJ tracks down the “My Pet Goat” story that President Bush is shown reading to a group of schoolchildren on 9/11 in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11.” They report: “Because the story is part of a classroom anthology, finding a copy — except for one listed under MY PET GOAT on […]

Anonymous No More The Boston Phoenix declares that the author of the forthcoming IMPERIAL HUBRIS is anonymous at the insistence of the CIA, and against his own wishes. They report that, “Nearly a dozen intelligence-community sources, however, say Anonymous is Michael Scheuer — and that his forced anonymity is both unprecedented and telling in the […]