Please Note Lunch is downshifting this week, and invoking the “except when not” part of our motto. We’ll be skipping at least a couple of the next few days, but as always, news will be posted to the PublishersMarketplace home page as warranted, and all the other site functions (including deals, jobs and more) will continue with their usual vigor. Rushdie Knighthood Reignites Controversy Salman Rushdie is being knighted by the Queen of England, one of 21 just announced knights-to-be. The honor, which a British spokesperson called “richly deserved,” for “self-explanatory” reasons, drew immediate protests from the Islamic world, including […]
