End of the book? – Los Angeles Times: From his perspective of more than 30 years in the publishing industry, Tom Engelhardt speculates on the current state of the industry: In scale, even the largest of modern publishers isn’t exactly a General Motors or a Citigroup or an AIG, in part because unlike cars, banking […]
Writers strike out on their own with a website | csmonitor.com: Striking writer Peter Hyoguchi was walking the picket line outside Disney’s ABC Studios in Burbank, Calif., in January when he had an epiphany. What if scriptwriters launched a website featuring their work, which they would own and control free of studio interference? That hunch
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The Internet vs. books: Peaceful coexistence – Los Angeles Times: Books require a different sort of communion with one’s subject than the Internet. They foster a different sort of memory — more tactile, more participatory. . . . For literary works, books are still, and most likely always will be, indispensable. In the Los Angeles
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Inside Google Book Search: Book Search everywhere with new partnerships and tools: Google makes it even easier for readers to part with their hard-earned cash: Today, we’re taking a big step towards bringing more books, across more sites, to more people online. We’re launching a set of free tools that allow retailers, publishers, and anyone
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Books | A list of 40 upcoming fiction and nonfiction books | Seattle Times Newspaper: Just in time to distract you from all the election mud-slinging comes this list, from the Seattle Times, of books being published this fall.
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Book Review – ‘The Time of Their Lives – The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors,’ by Al Silverman – Review – NYTimes.com: Writer Bruce Jay Friedman reviews a new book about the golden age of publishing, which book author Silverman defines as covering the years between 1946 and the
Nation & World | Publisher Robert Giroux: the gold standard of literary taste | Seattle Times Newspaper: Robert Giroux, an editor who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century and who rose to join one of the nation’s most distinguished publishing houses as a partner, making it Farrar, Straus &
Electronic Device Stirs Unease at BookExpo – NYTimes.com This article discusses the current status of electronic books, with focus on the two most popular ebook readers, Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader. The article points out that one advantage of ebooks is that the supplier never runs out of copies. Scott McClellan’s “What Happened,” the
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Troubled book world is going for novel ideas – Los Angeles Times As Book Expo America, the nation’s largest annual book convention, opens today in Los Angeles, innovation — some would say desperation — will be the main order of business. More than 2,000 exhibitors from every facet of the publishing world, nearly 1,000 authors
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Amazon’s Kindle is stoking sales of e-books The debate over e-books and the future of publishing continues, here centered around Amazon’s new e-book device, the Kindle. One person involved in the publishing industry compares e-books to audiobooks. If that’s an apt comparison, then we can only expect e-books to become increasingly more prevalent relatively quickly.
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