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Band of brothers

Should you find yourself in the American Midwest in the next few weeks or on the eastern seaboard in the month of May, be sure to check out a book-themed indie rock band named Harry ... Read More »

March 28, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Da Vinci Code on trial — again

By Scott MacDonald

Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown took to the stand yesterday as the star defence witness in a copyright infringement lawsuit being launched against his publisher, Random House. The claimants this time around are Richard ... Read More »

March 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Catching the eye

By Leigh Anne Williams

Book Standard columnist (and Bookslut.com proprietor) Jessa Crispin writes about the mysterious process by which some books manage to stand out from the pack enough to snag her attention. And for at least one title ... Read More »

March 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

By Scott MacDonald

The most fun In Other Media has had in about two weeks should end with a posting by Toronto Star books editor Dan Smith that went up on the newspaper's website yesterday. In the posting, ... Read More »

February 21, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Get yourself out there

By Leigh Anne Williams

Wall Street Journal media reporter Jeffrey Trachtenberg gives the Media Bistro site his take on a few of publishing's recent hot topics, including technology, genre trends, and someone named James Frey. He also discusses the ... Read More »

February 20, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

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

McLaren vs. Bigge: Round 2

By Scott MacDonald

Here at In Other Media, controversy makes us as giddy as the recipients of brand new puppies on Valentine's Day morning. In the last month or so, we linked to as many stories on James ... Read More »

February 14, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

In Other Media gets emotional about climate change

By Scott MacDonald

Still riding high on a stellar talk delivered last night in Toronto by David Suzuki in which he both predicted imminent environmental collapse unless people change their ways right now and condemned the mainstream media's ... Read More »

February 10, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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

Black bile? Yes, indeed.

By Scott MacDonald

In an essay originally published in his magazine Front & Centre and republished on The Danforth Review, Ottawa writer and Black Bile Press editor Matthew Firth calls for the end of literary prizes and contests ... Read More »

January 24, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Book news, Opinion

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Search Results by tag: media

Band of brothers

Da Vinci Code on trial — again

Catching the eye

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

Get yourself out there

The more you sell, the less you make

McLaren vs. Bigge: Round 2

In Other Media gets emotional about climate change

So emo

Black bile? Yes, indeed.

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