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Nelson Considers Pricing Defenses

October 26, 2009
By Michael Cader

Thomas Nelson ceo Mike Hyatt blogs on the bestseller price war, saying that “publishers themselves need to find the courage to act in everyone’s long-term interests. As the content providers, they have all the power they need to stop these pricing practices.” That “courage” can lead to some radical options, such as not selling to […]

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More Pronouncements, from Ackman and Olson

June 10, 2009
By Michael Cader

A NYT blog publishes a performance report from Bill Ackman to investors in Pershing Square. Even with the big run-up in Borders stock recently and the sweetheart deal in which Pershing got to reprice their underwater stock warrants to the bargain level of 65 cents a share in exchange for extending their $42.5 million loan, […]

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Short Story Anthology Ignites Yet Another CanLit Debate

August 12, 2008
By Sarah Weinman

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 […]

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Issues of the Week: Reviews & Blogs, Again

August 1, 2008
By Michael Cader

The quickening dissection and/or disappearance of newspaper book reviews (and newspaper book-focused staff) produced a couple of pieces of commentary this week. First Da Capo senior director of publicity Lissa Warren wrote at the Huffington Post on “will blogs save books?” She criticizes blog coverage of books with a broad brush for, well, not being […]

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Issues of the Week: Pre-Bookers

August 1, 2008
By Michael Cader

As conveyed in my original listing of the “Booker Dozen” that actually comprises 13 books, I’m baffled by the UK’s ability to generate attention and debate over a list of non-nominees for the Booker prize (or any other award). Longlists are no measure of distinction and are never remembered  so it’s hard to imagine how […]

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Wood Words

July 24, 2008
By Michael Cader

Much has been written already about James Wood’s just-released HOW FICTION WORKS, and how it might shape writers present and future. Already Wood himself has weighed in on different venues to explain how his views have been mischaracterized, so you can only guess where this will lead from here. One can imagine that all good […]

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