‘Industry News’ Archives
Industry News: 3/6/10
We're having our first agent guest blogger this Monday, the fabulous Jennifer Schober from Spencerhill Associates. She's written a great blog and she's taking questions. Be sure to stop off and comment. Agent Jessica Faust from Bookends posted her New and Updated Publishing Dictionary. She says it's an "ever-popular post." Agent Donald [...]
Industry News: 2/27/10
Books Inc. owners are writing the formula for success for their San Francisco stores. It feels good to read positive news about bookstores. Therese Walsh sent me a tip that agent Jenny Bent wrote a great post on STET!, the Backspace blog, on author-agent-editor fit. This was the first time I've been to STET! and I'm wondering why it took [...]
Industry News: 2/21/10
Do you know if your library has e-books you can check out? With either this link from Sony or Overdrive, which many libraries use, it's easy to find out. I was surprised to find out that my library has 100 e-books available for check out. Michael Cader's analysis of last Thursday’s New York Times piece on e-book pricing went out to paid [...]
Industry News: 2/14/10
More news on e-books. From John Makinson, Chairman and CEO of the Penguin Group: "Today's e-book is a direct descendant of the 1930s paperback." He gives a bit of history and information on the business side of publishing, then adds: "Publishers will flourish in this new economy so long as they keep these issues in perspective and understand [...]
Industry News: 2/10/2010
The fight between Amazon and Macmillan has been big news this week, with Amazon removing the Buy links for Macmillan books in a dispute over pricing. I read last night on Twitter that the "Buy" links were up, so all is well now. But a lot of people were angry at Amazon, and many others say that publishers need to lower prices to stay in the [...]
Industry News: 1/30/10
Romance is going to Yale! Historical writers Lauren Willig and Cara Elliott are teaching a romance novel course at Yale. 80 interested students applied for 18 slots. If you're looking for an agent, you might want to follow the Ask Agent site on Twitter. I hear it has a lot of good information. Do you write Chick Lit? It's listed as one of [...]
Industry News: 1/23/2010
In September, Simon & Schuster announced that they united the "editorial and publicity teams of its Pocket Books and Simon Spotlight Entertainment into a new imprint called Gallery Books." I'm mentioning it because the Publishers Marketplace announcement for Michelle Diener said her two historicals, ILLUMINATIONS and BRILLIANCE, were sold to [...]
Industry News: 1/15/2010
Good news for Women's Fiction. The Guardian says 2010 is an exciting year for feminism, and it's showing up in books, films and theater. According to Dear Author, Dorchester sold frontlist and backlist of some of their major authors to Avon. Dear Author isn't sure what it means, and neither am I. I hope it's profitable for everyone [...]
Industry News: 1/8/2010
2010 is off to a busy start. First, Alicia Condon, former Editorial Director at Dorchester is moving to Kensington to take the job left open by the death of Kate Duffy. Leah Hultenschmidt has been appointed the new ED at Dorchester. From Publishers Marketplace 1/7 lunch email: "Elizabeth Evans has joined the Jean V. Naggar Literary [...]
Women Writers in the News
An interesting Washington Post article by writer Julianna Baggott on why more men than women are on the best books of the year lists, and get more awards and respect. This excerpt is from the last paragraph: . . . the message I received from this year's lists was painfully familiar. It forced me to explain to my students -- the next [...]
