Audible and the Center for Independent Publishing are joining forces to publish work from independent publishers.Their first selection is Joe Meno’s Demons from the Spring (Akashic) next month under the Audible IndieFirst banner, released first on audiobook format, one month ahead of print release via Audible.com and iTunes. Bookseller
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At Chronicle Books, Amy Treadwell has been promoted to editor, Food and Drink, and Ursula Cary has been named editor in the One and Others group, moving from Simon Spotlight Entertainment. Robert C. Nelson is joining Baker & Taylor as executive v-p, strategic business development, a new position. Previously he was president of UCT Forestry Group. Yale University Press has named William Frucht Executive Editor for Political Science and International Relations. Frucht joins from Basic Books, where he was VP and Executive Editor.
Buffett Bio Now Scheduled for September
The authorized biography of investor Warren Buffett finally has a release date: September 29, according to Bantam Dell. The 976-page book is being written by former Morgan Stanley insurance analyst Alice Schroeder with Buffett’s cooperation and is titled The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. The book had been scheduled for a May release in conjunction with Buffett’s insurance and investment company Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting, but was delayed.USA TODAY
Miramax Latest to Sue for Breach of Contract
After Simon & Schuster launched lawsuits to recover advance money from rappers L’il Kim and Foxy Brown, Miramax is trying the same thing with Alison Pearson, the Daily Mail columnist and author of the 2003 bestseller I Don’t Know How She Does It. They allege Pearson signed a contract five years for an unpublished novel titled I Think I Love You, accepting a $700,000 advance. The suit, filed on Friday in Manhattan federal court, said although Pearson accepted the money in August 2003 under a two-year contract she failed to deliver the novel and ignored requests by Miramax since 2006 […]
Short Story Anthology Ignites Yet Another CanLit Debate
It took almost a year before The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories ignited debate, but now that it has it’s provoked another round of discussion in the ongoing Canadian literature culture wars. In response to anthology editor Jane Urquhart’s selections for the anthology and her admission in the book’s introduction of a “nagging suspicion that perhaps I was not the person best suited to the task,” two literary magazines – The New Quarterly and Canadian Notes and Queries – have joined forces to celebrate a Salon des Refusés, featuring stories by 20 writers (10 in each magazine) not included […]
Tan, Houellebecq Venture Outside Novel Territory
There’s been much ink spilled over the past few days about the San Francisco Opera’s upcoming production of Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, with Tan writing the libretto herself after director Stuart Wallace “badgered” her into it, saying the novel “must be an opera.” As for her hopes for the opera, she tells Newsweek “part of it has been fulfilled already, as I’ve had this amazing musical experience. If people respond enthusiastically, I’ll be grateful. But even terrible reviews cannot diminish its success for me personally. It will hurt, but I won’t regret doing what’s been so fulfilling.” Meanwhile, reactions […]