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Sylvia Day's REFLECTED IN YOU, the
follow-up to her bestselling BARED TO YOU, sold 286,000 ebooks in the US in the
first week on sale, Berkley reported. It sells for $9.99. The publisher says
the trade paperback, which does not go on sale until October 23, will have a
630,000-copy printing.
Random House is
inviting
the public to buy tickets (at $25 each, including breakfast and lunch) to
an "open house" at their headquarters building in New York on
November 2. The full-day event promises "access to upcoming titles
before they're in bookstores" along with the opportunity to meet company
editors and designers and hear from a number of authors. That author
roster includes Anna Quindlen, Marcus Samulesson, Kurt Andersen "and other
national bestselling authors." Somehow sponsor Huffington Post will
"bring their unique voice and insight to the dialogue of the day."
As Dorchester
transfers its assets and back catalog to Amazon Publishing, the company explains
on their website that they have made "great strides" in reverting
rights back to authors, but "research has uncovered a number of authors
for whom we have no contact information. In addition, there are a number of
titles without corresponding authors." We noticed, however, that a number
of the non-contactable authors include HP Lovecraft (his name misspelled),
Robert Louis Stevenson (work in the public domain), Edgar Rice Burroughs, and
Marion Zimmer Bradley, as well as a number of writers for whom contact information
is easily findable online.
In a global webcast, JK Rowling indicated
that when she registered on Pottermore, she was sorted into Gryffindor, but
added she "personally would not be at all disappointed to be sorted into
Hufflepuff." Rowling reiterated that her next book is likely to be a
children's title.
City Lights Bookstore co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti
turned down the Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize from the Hungarian
PEN Club upon discovering the Hungarian government had provided much of the
50,000 euro prize money. Ferlinghetti wrote in a letter saying there was
"no possibility of my accepting the prize in a ceremony in the United
States or elsewhere" because of wide reports of the Hungarian government
"officially and unofficially stifling free speech." He explained:
"I am sorry it has come to this, and I am grateful to those in Hungary who
may have had the purest motives in offering me the Prize."
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