John
Green to Wi10 Booksellers: Life Would 'Suck Without You'
The bestselling author, speaking to booksellers at the Winter Institute on Monday afternoon, thanked them for jump-starting his career 10 years ago. Green continued: "Part of what you are selling is your passion and expertise,” and "you cannot buy that, and you cannot replicate that." more »
The bestselling author, speaking to booksellers at the Winter Institute on Monday afternoon, thanked them for jump-starting his career 10 years ago. Green continued: "Part of what you are selling is your passion and expertise,” and "you cannot buy that, and you cannot replicate that." more »
No
Second Year for Toronto Book Fair The Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair, which launched last November as a three-day consumer event, will not be held again in 2015, the organizers announced Monday, who cited their inability to secure commitments from exhibitors. more »
Big
Drop in E-book Sales Led to Soft 2014 at HBG Revenue at the Hachette Book Group USA fell 8.4% in the fourth quarter, and was down 4.8% for the year, parent company Lagardere reported. The drop, Lagardere said, was thanks to a stronger publishing lineup in 2013, as well as problems stemming from the publisher's standoff with Amazon over sales terms. more »
Scribd
Pads Its Comics Catalog Through agreements with such comics publishers as Marvel and IDW, the e-book subscription service will add more than 10,000 comics and graphic novels to its inventory. more » »
New
Krakauer Book Set for 500K First Printing Bestselling author of 'Into the Wild,' Jon Krakuer, will publish his next book in April. Doubleday, his publisher, said the new nonfiction work, 'Missoula: Rape and the Justice System In a College Town,' will be released on the 21st of the month with a first announced printing of 500,000 copies. more » »
Why Fan Fiction
is Publishing's Future: How Fifty Shades of Grey took #FanFic
from literary backwater to publishing powerhouse.
BBC Changes
'Casual Vacancy' End: The BBC has changed the “bleak” ending of
J.K. Rowling’s book for its TV adaptation, due to be screened this month in the
U.K., and in April in the U.S.
Read a Book 100
Times: Author and columnist Stephen Marche, who has perused PG
Wodehouse and Hamlet more than 100 times each, extols the virtues of literary
repetition.
Iraq Book Market
Comes Back to Life: At a lively book market in Baghdad, you can
buy tomes by poets, sociologists—and Danielle Steel.
David Duchovny's
Debut Novel: Salon talked to the 'X-Files' actor about becoming
a novelist.
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