by Leigh Anne Williams

Heavenly thoughts, earthly riches

Associated Press reports that some Italian publishers have run into a royalty dispute with the Vatican over reprinted quotations and writings by Pope Benedikt XVI (formerly Joseph Ratzinger). Writes AP staffer Frances D'Emilio: "After Ratzinger ... Read More »

February 20, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

A look at feminist writing today

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the Book Standard website, columnist Jessa Crispin (who's also the proprietor of Bookslut.com) ruminates on the deaths of Wendy Wasserstein and Betty Friedan, and wonders who will step up as today's leading feminist authors. ... Read More »

February 17, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Tales of two cities

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Times looks at the reaction in Venice to John Berendt's latest book, City of Falling Angels, a non-fiction account of "local secrets and scandals," in the words of Times reporter Elisabetta Povoledo. ... Read More »

February 17, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Good report on bad reviews

By Leigh Anne Williams

Just when we think we're out, they pull us back in. Alex Good, who runs the literary website Good Reports, has weighed in on the Bigge/McLaren controversy (see In Other Media passim) with a very ... Read More »

February 16, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The more you sell, the less you make

By Leigh Anne Williams

Give them credit for gall if nothing else: the Australian division of Penguin is proposing to pay less in author royalties for its most successful titles. Typically, the standard author's royalty rate of 10% of ... Read More »

February 16, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The poet laureate's sense of child's play

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Royal Society of Literature in the U.K. asked several prominent writers to recommend essential books for schoolchildren to read. Predictably, most of the attention has converged on the list that Andrew Motion submitted: the ... Read More »

February 2, 2006 | Filed under: Events

The Tournament of Books, round 2

By Leigh Anne Williams

For the second year in a row, the U.S. website The Morning News is hosting a "Tournament of Books," in which a group of litbloggers and other critics will whittle a list of 16 prominent ... Read More »

February 2, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

ReFreyed

By Leigh Anne Williams

Well, now we know why James Frey cancelled his appearance in Toronto, which was scheduled for Thursday. We may have assumed he was simply going into low-profile mode, but it turns out something else came ... Read More »

January 26, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

So emo

By Leigh Anne Williams

There's been a lot of book-biz chatter about the chick-lit genre in the past few years, but in a column on the Book Standard site, Jessa Crispin takes on a male analogue: "the emo boy ... Read More »

January 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The sounds of silence

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Times has a very fun piece (yes, that was New York Times, and yes, that was "very fun") about the struggles audiobook publishers face when trying to capture typographical quirks in audio ... Read More »

January 20, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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Heavenly thoughts, earthly riches

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Good report on bad reviews

The more you sell, the less you make

The poet laureate's sense of child's play

The Tournament of Books, round 2

ReFreyed

So emo

The sounds of silence

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