Google has now officially confirmed the enrollment of the the Municipal Library of Lyon as the first French institution to join the Google Book Search Library Project. Together they will digitize “close to 500,000 public domain books.” You may recall that in the early days of GBS there were two primary schools of griping: the we’re going to be included and we don’t want to be branch, and the we’re not going to be included (and horrible English works will smother the world) branch. Needless to say, the French were among the leaders of the latter camp, advocating for government-backed […]
Candidates as Comics?
IDW Publishing has announced they will issue two comic-book biographies of the major presidential candidates in early October, along with a trade paperback “flip-book” with both comics in one edition.
Personnel News
In the publicity department at William Morrow: Jack Womack has been promoted to associate director; and Brianne Halverson and Jennifer Slattery have been promoted to senior publicity manager. CQ Press has hired Ronald Parisi as national sales manager for the reference information group, servicing schools, libraries, and businesses. He was national sales manager, medical markets at ProQuest.
More Names from the LAT
Ed Champion confirms that Kris Lindgren is the other member of the Los Angeles Times Book Review team being laid off: “Her last day is Friday. This is a terrible loss for the books section. I worked with Kris on a few reviews, and she was a fantastic editor, often forcing me to come up with some taut sentences in a very small window of time.”Blog post
WSJ on ThrillerFest
The WSJ covers the recent ThrillerFest in New York: “Six hundred thriller writers, fans and industry professionals, some from as far away as Britain, Australia and New Zealand, were on hand…, a 30% increase from last year, according to Kathleen Antrim, author of ‘Capital Offense,’ [and vp of the organization] the saga of a first lady plotting to overthrow the president. ThrillerFest 2007 netted multibook deals for two attendees, and while it would be premature to speculate about the contracts that may come out of this gathering, ‘at least 25 people came up to me to say that agents had […]
More Free: Pinter, Friedman, and Tor
Through August 5, author Jason Pinter is offering visitors to his web site free online access to the first book in his Henry Parker series, THE MARK. (The third in the series publishes at the end of July.) In an additional twist, Pinter offers to thank in the acknowledgements of next year’s book any fan who links to the free offer, posts the widget or e-mails five friends and notifies Pinter. I guess we just qualified.Pinter blog Separately, starting a few days ago, Thomas Friedman has been offering a free audiobook giveaway of THE WORLD IS FLAT from his web […]