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Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

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

Heavenly thoughts, earthly riches

By Leigh Anne Williams

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

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

Literary multi-tasking

By Scott MacDonald

Yahoo! News peers into the short-term future of American book offerings and sees that at least four mystery/thriller titles with conflicts revolving around the Catholic Church will be released in the early months of 2006. ... Read More »

December 15, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Winners and losers in the American publishing sweepstakes

By Leigh Anne Williams

New York Times publishing reporter Edward Wyatt has used some BookScan data to identify over- and underachievers among the 2005 crop of American book releases. Doing well is Joan Didion, whose The Year of Magical ... Read More »

December 8, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Seeking the next J.K. Rowling

By Scott MacDonald

In the middle of the holiday book-buying season, it seems that just about everyone is weighing in on kidlit. On the CBC website, Rachel Giese traces its trajectory from the 1970s and '80s, when realist ... Read More »

December 7, 2005 | Filed under: Authors

Vice's vice for plagiarism

By Leigh Anne Williams

A few weeks back, news broke that the University of Georgia Press was pulping a short-story collection by Brad Vice called The Bear Bryant Funeral Train after it came out that one of the stories, ... Read More »

December 1, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

NYT notices Neil Young Nation

By Leigh Anne Williams

The good news: Kevin Chong's memoir Neil Young Nation, one of Greystone/Douglas & McIntyre's big fall titles, snagged a plum spot in The New York Times Book Review on the weekend. The bad news: the ... Read More »

November 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The science of sales?

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's the holy grail for the book industry -- empirical scientific data on just what makes a bestseller a bestseller. This Science Daily article tells of a study by "UCLA physicist and complex systems theorist ... Read More »

December 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: YA

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

Heavenly thoughts, earthly riches

The more you sell, the less you make

McLaren vs. Bigge: Round 2

Literary multi-tasking

Winners and losers in the American publishing sweepstakes

Seeking the next J.K. Rowling

Vice's vice for plagiarism

NYT notices Neil Young Nation

The science of sales?

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