This morning at Lunch headquarters we considered a short piece about how Apple would have an official presence at BookExpo America (BEA) for the first time this year. But the company simply has paid for a meeting room, and that didn’t seem like much of a story. Then paidContent did run a thoroughly inaccurate piece, claiming Apple would be exhibiting on the floor and insisting–on what basis we can’t guess–that they would have a “large booth in a prime location.” But they will have neither. The incorrect story got echoed throughout the internet, clipped without checking by many major news […]
Archives for May 2011
People: Lotts, Schelling Open New Agencies
Chris Lotts and Christopher Schelling have left Ralph Vicinanza Ltd to open new agencies. The Lotts Agency will continue Lotts’s representation of commercial fiction and targeted upmarket non-fiction in a mix of domestic and foreign rights, working on behalf of Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Connie Willis, Robert J. Sawyer R. Scott Bakker, Stacia Kane and Lia Hable, among many others. At Schelling’s new shop, Selectric Artists, he will continue with authors like Augusten Burroughs, Cinda Williams Chima, John Elder Robison, Louis Bayard, Kim Stanley Robinson and Haven Kimmel, while also expanding his representation into other media, such […]
Awards
The Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award went to Paolo Giordano for his novel THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS, and their New Visions Award went to Lisa Miller for HEAVEN. In the UK, The Bookseller Industry Awards were presented last night. The sponsor-laced award names can be a little embarrassing–Quercus is technically the “Bonnier Publishing Publisher of the Year”–so we’ll just present a few shorthanded highlights: Faber & Faber won both Independent Publisher of the Year and the Innovation Prize (for the Touch Press app of The Solar System) Clara Farmer at Chatto & Windus won Imprint and Editor […]
eNews: BN Seeks Trademark for A “Simple Touch Reader” (And 1 Million Nook Apps); NYPL iPad Apps; and More
With Barnes & Noble‘s new ereader announcement set for 10:00 on Tuesday, May 24, CNet has researched some of the company’s recent trademark filings (which are made through Fission LLC) for clues. They filed to protect the phrase “the simple touch reader” at the end of March in the category of “portable electronic apparatus for reading”–which CNet logically says “we take as a strong indication that the upcoming Nook will be an affordable monochrome e-ink touch-screen model that operates similarly” to the Sony Reader. A more recent filing also seeks to protect MyNook, a web portal service “to remotely manage, […]
People, Etc.: Rosenthal is Blue Rider
David Rosenthal‘s new imprint at Penguin, launching in November, will be called Blue Rider Press. The release informs us: “The Blue Rider, or in German, Der Blaue Reiter, was an iconoclastic movement in music and painting now seen as a driving force of modern art. Established in Munich, Germany in 1911, The Blue Rider was a loose association of painters determined to promote individual expression and break free of any conventional artistic restraints.” Among the newly-announced authors for the line are Senator George McGovern’s What It Means To Be A Democrat and a parody, Goodnight iPad, for this fall, and New York […]
James Frey and Oprah Winfrey Make Amends
Oprah Winfrey is going to stretch two days out of setting her conscience to rest on James Frey before her show goes off the air. Though the conversation was lengthy in Monday’s first installment, together they cover already plowed ground. Frey told Oprah in early 2006 “I think I made a lot of mistakes in writing the book and promoting book” and that remains his theme: “I wrote a book and I published it as something that it wasn’t and I was dishonest in promoting the book,” he said on today’s episode. There is still some of the classic Frey […]