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The new face of summer magazine fiction

The magazine market for fiction may not be in quite so critical a condition after all. Toronto Life has announced plans to drop its annual Summer Fiction feature, but another city magazine has just kicked ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Update: ban-tastic library revokes heinous policy

By Cassandra Drudi

Earlier this week, In Other Media linked to the story of an Indiana library's new restrictions on homeless shelter residents' lending privileges and their cutting shelter children off from borrowing entirely.The Post-Tribune reports today that ... Read More »

June 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Today's book clubs: no books allowed!

By Cassandra Drudi

The New York Daily News documents the demise of many young women's book clubs in the big bad city, due mainly to the fact that their members aren't reading the books and are instead talking ... Read More »

June 15, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Independent publisher takes BEA panelists to the ground

By Cassandra Drudi

Working Assets editorial director Jennifer Nix used her blog Firedoglake to lay some smack on BookExpo America yesterday. Her beef? That many mainstream magazines and newspaper editors avoid political books and ignore the legions of ... Read More »

May 25, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Hating The Da Vinci Code, the sequel

By Leigh Anne Williams

In Other Media is not a fan of The New Yorker's funnyman film critic, Anthony Lane, clinging as we do to the idealistic belief that a review should be something more than a preening display ... Read More »

May 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

American publishing took a nosedive last year

By Cassandra Drudi

Many media outlets, including Publishers Weekly, the L.A. Times, and Yahoo! News, unveiled yesterday the drop in output the American publishing industry showed in 2005. The number of new books and new editions of old ... Read More »

May 10, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Harper's bid for totalitarianism backfires

By Scott MacDonald

What's the best way to sell a book? Recent events surrounding Mark Tushingham's book, Hotter Than Hell, suggest that a little controversy can't hurt. In Other Media linked last week to coverage of the Harper ... Read More »

April 25, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Might is right

By Scott MacDonald

In what appears to be an attempt to keep a lid on the pot of global warming, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has barred Mark Tushingham, a scientist for Environment Canada and the author of the ... Read More »

April 18, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Mr. Mock-turtleneck and Blazer gets in trouble again

By Scott MacDonald

The world just can't seem to leave its wealthiest conspiracy theorist alone. The latest incident in the Da Vinci Code money grab sees Mikhail Anikin, a Russian art historian, vying for a public apology and ... Read More »

April 12, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Peck does it again

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bad-boy book reviewer and author Dale Peck has taken his literary-criticism-as-theatre approach (or perhaps literary criticism as pro wrestling) to its logical conclusion with a new look-at-me stunt. The U.S. website The Morning News asked ... Read More »

April 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: media

The new face of summer magazine fiction

Update: ban-tastic library revokes heinous policy

Today's book clubs: no books allowed!

Independent publisher takes BEA panelists to the ground

Hating The Da Vinci Code, the sequel

American publishing took a nosedive last year

Harper's bid for totalitarianism backfires

Might is right

Mr. Mock-turtleneck and Blazer gets in trouble again

Peck does it again

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