Phillip Greaves was extradited from Colorado to Florida, where he faces third-degree felony obscenity charges for mailing his self-published book The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure. Florida Sheriff Grady Judd says, “I was outraged by the content. It was clearly a manifesto on how to sexually batter children … You just can’t believe how absolutely disgusting it was.” Greaves mailed a book to undercover detectives, and said it was his last copy. The volume was the focus on protests when it was found for sale on Amazon last month. But as John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Dennis […]
Archives for December 2010
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Has Memoirs Coming from Knopf and Canongate In March
Canongate bought rights to Julian Assange’s memoirs for the UK and translations from Caroline Michel at PFD but he won’t be contemplating his life for long, due to deliver a manuscript in March 2011 for publication later in the year. Knopf bought rights here. Daily Finance
Random CEO Writes on Year’s Highlights
Random House ceo Markus Dohle writes to employees worldwide to “celebrate a good fiscal year for Random House worldwide despite the hurdle of ailing economies in most of our territories.” Among the highlights, Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy is “on course to sell 14 million copies in 2010” in the US across all formats, with another 2 million trade paperbacks and e-books in Germany. Worldwide digital sales are expected to be up by 250 percent over 2009, and in the US he acknowledges that “for some of our fall publication titles, nearly half of the overall first-week sales have been in […]
More Top Tens, from EW and the San Francisco Chronicle
We’ll have our final Best of the Best of 2010 compilation list for you shortly. In the meantime, more votes were cast by Entertainment Weekly and the SF Chronicle, below: 1. The Lonely Polygamist, Brady Udall 2. Room, Emma Donoghue 3. 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective, Garry Trudeau 4. The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer 5. Skippy Dies, Paul Murray 6. One Day, David Nicholls 7. Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes 8. The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman 9. Rich Boy, Sharon Pomerantz 10. The Surrendered, Chang-rae Lee EW And the SF Chronicle picks: Fiction Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen Room, by Emma Donoghue Selected Stories, by […]
Barnes & Noble At Fisherman’s Wharf Says It’s Closing
According to a sign in the window of the Barnes & Noble at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, the location is closing December 31. The company did not respond to the SF Chronicle, but an employee told the paper, “As far as we know, the rent got raised a little too much for us to deal with.”
eNews Shorts: Amazon Starts New Periodicals On Android; Sourcebooks Learns from Giveaway Problems; Diesel Adds Customer Bundles; HBG UK Already at 5 Percent
Amazon has updated their Kindle for Android app first with the capability to buy optimized full-color versions of magazines and newspapers on a single-copy and subscription basis. (Like others in the field, they offer a 14-day free trial on all publications.) They launch with over 100 publications.Release Giving away ebooks is harder than you might think–particularly if you are trying a one-day-only promotion, as Sourcebooks did yesterday to celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday. CEO Dominique Raccah refreshingly turns it into a important community teaching moment, candidly sharing the mistakes they made, the things they learned, the help etailers provided, and even […]