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Archives for September 2005

Lunch for Friday, September 30

September 30, 2005
By Michael Cader

Place Your Nobel Bets It’s time for the annual rumors about who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature — but since the Swedish Academy does such a good job of keeping quiet (and such a good job of picking obscure writers), the rumors are modest. British bookmakers have Syrian poet Adonis as the 2-1 […]

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Lunch for thursday, September 29

September 29, 2005
By Michael Cader

Covering the Used Books Coverage Following yesterday’s preview of the BISG study, here are short glimpses of how the traditional press positioned the results: The WSJ focuses on “slightly used books” that are highly visible on Amazon.com — though the BISG study offered no specific data on these offerings. As usual, agents would like to […]

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Lunch for Wednesday, September 28

September 28, 2005
By Michael Cader

Used But Not Discarded At the BISG’s annual meeting today, the marquee event was the presentation of summary data from their Used Book Study (the full study is still being prepared, and will not be released until next month). The best part of the study, conducted by market research firm InfoTrends and presented by Jeffrey […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, September 27

September 27, 2005
By Michael Cader

San Francisco Reads, Too Gus Lee’s autobiographical novel CHINA BOY is the first selection for San Francisco’s One City One Book program. The SF Chronicle files a long piece about the author and the book. SF Chron Angel Has a Date with Oprah UNLIKELY ANGEL, the book by Ashley Smith — the Atlanta-area woman who […]

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Lunch for Monday, September 26

September 26, 2005
By Michael Cader

National Bookings The Library of Congress says they drew about 90,000 people on Saturday for the fifth annual National Book Festival on the Mall in Washington, DC. Among the more popular signings, they report in a press release, were Neil Gaiman, who signed 500 books, and Sue Monk Kidd, who signed 350 books. David McCullough […]

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Lunch Weekly for September 26

September 25, 2005
By Michael Cader

Monday, September 26 Our Usual Reminder This publication is for your individual use only, and not for redistribution, or forwarding. If for some reason this has reached you even though you are not a paying member of PublishersMarketplace, please visit the link below to join us all the time for complete deal reports and more. […]

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