Between the Covers
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Little Guy Hits It Big After 20 Smackdowns
There's always a bit of a mystery when a "small" book hits it big. read more »
The Amazon Epidemic: Writers Addicted to Rankings
Most writers have a lot of romantic notions about what will happen to their lives the minute they pu read more »
Why Naughty Nannies Got Badly Spanked At Random House
Anyone with a jones for scandal and/or Schadenfreude -which is to say, most of us in the publishing read more »
Coming Out Soon: A Wild Gay Opera of a Book
James McCourt doesn't see New York the way the rest of us do. read more »
What the Hecht? The Case of the Missing Marketing Blitz
Has the recent consolidation of Random House taken its first victim?Whoever wrote the four-page memo read more »
Ann Godoff Knocks Wood For New Shabby-Chic List
Poor Ann Godoff, she can't win for losing. read more »
Whose Book Is It Anyway? When Journalists Get Book Deals
Last spring, Seth Mnookin landed himself the kind of book deal every journalist who's honest would a read more »
Pile On, Publishers! Dueling Titles Hit the Shelves
"If one's good, two (or more) would be better" might as well be the official mantra of nonfiction pu read more »
Hollywood's Calling, But Bookstore Shelves Are Bare
It's every author's dream: You write a book that everybody loves. read more »
Go West, N.Y. Publishers: It's Showtime in L.A.
To the casual observer, the annual publishing extravaganza known as Book Expo America seems like jus read more »
Summer Reading Starts Now- Where's My Paperback?
Like a couple of million other Americans, I've already read Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones -so the read more »
Publicity Move du Jour: The Embargo, Served Cold
It seems counterintuitive, in a business driven by buzz, that one of the most cutting-edge weapons i read more »
Publishers, Open Your Books! We Know the Numbers Lie
A few years ago, I met with a prominent editor at a major house on a kind of "go-see" to introduce m read more »
Raging Rosset Ignored; 'Warm, Gentle' Beckett Fêted
Given the publishing-world scuttlebutt last week, you might have thought the P.E.N.-sponsored tribut read more »
Koufax Vs. DiMaggio: Will Lefty Outscore Yankee Rival?
Publishing doesn't exactly abound with happy stories these days. read more »
