Friday, November 01, 2013

THE ROUNDUP FROM PW



Twenty Years of Bestsellers : How has your reading changed in the past 20 years? From readers shopping in brick-and-mortar bookstores, to the dominance of game-changing online sellers, to a digital era of e-reading and instant delivery, the book industry has gone through monumental change. USA Today looks through 20 years of best-selling books.

Card Won't Profit from 'Ender's Game': In an effort to head off a potentially damaging boycott of the sci-fi epic Ender's Game, sources close to the film's producers have claimed controversial author Orson Scott Card will not profit from the film's box-office take.

Bookstores Play the Print Card : A recent standoff in the book business shows how good old-fashioned, brick-and-mortar bookstores are still trying to wield their influence in the industry.

Retired Prof Gives Books on Halloween: "Candy is gone in 30 minutes," retired MU professor Gary Fox, 83, said. "Books will be passed on and shared."


Why Readers Love Big Bios : It's aspirational. Says one publisher, we hope "there’s something about genius [...] that can rub off."


The Stars Come Out for Roth
One thousand New Yorkers gathered earlier this month to hear actors Alec Baldwin, Paul Carlin, and John Rothman read from Philip Roth’s novels at Temple Emanu-El in a tribute arranged by The Library of America, publisher of a now complete nine-volume edition of Roth’s collected works. Pictured from left to right: v-p and publisher of Library of America, Max Rudin; Rothman; president and CEO of Library of America, Cheryl Hurley; and Baldwin.

Picador Set to Launch Modern Classics 

Picador will debut its Modern Classics line with the November 5 publication of a repackaged Twenty-Seventh City, Jonathan Franzen's first novel, complete with an introduction by Franzen specialist and academic Philip Weinstein. more » 

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