On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of NYT reporter and author James Risen, letting stand an Appeals Court ruling that he must testify as to whether former CIA officer James Sterling was the source of leaked, classified information Risen used in his 2006 book STATE OF WAR: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. (The Court’s decision is in line with the full Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which had declined to hear Risen’s appeal by a 13-to-1 vote.) Risen has said he will go to jail rather than testify. Similarly, Attorney […]
Archives for June 2014
Amazon Recommends Two Hachette Books They Aren’t Selling
Lily King’s EUPHORIA — one of our Publishers Lunch Spring/Summer Buzz Books — tops Amazon’s best books of June list as their Spotlight pick, along with Courtney Maum’s I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN WITHOUT YOU as the Featured Debut. More curious, however, is that two of the titles the bookseller’s “editors have hand picked as this month’s best” are not actually available for sale on the site: Megan Abbott’s THE FEVER (Little, Brown) and Tom Rob Smith’s THE FARM (Grand Central) are “currently unavailable” as part of Amazon’s standoff with Hachette Book Group.
Teens Help Make Book Con A Hit; Aims to Expand to Two Days
After two years of well-intentioned but powerless experimenting with inviting “power readers” to BEA, Reed Exhibitions got it right by turning over the reformatted Book Con to their pop-culture unit. Now the questions are how far can they take the consumer show, and how can the BEA part keep up. Saturday’s Book Con ticket sales were capped at just over 10,000 to keep from completely overfilling the allocated space and the show was declared sold out. The most powerful readers were the ones with strong, healthy lungs: The secret behind the show’s success was teenagers (who sometimes allowed their parents […]