Now That's Some Math I Can Get On Board With
Kindle sales figures continue to be as clear as mud . . . After yesterday morning’s announcement of Kindle 2.0, it was reported everywhere — thanks in part to the misleading awesome chart below and to Bezos’s actual words: “Today, more than 10 percent of the units we sell are Kindle books.” ...
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Going . . . to . . . stay . . . calm
From the Alliance of NYS Arts Organizations daily e-mail: Although the U.S. House of Representatives passed their version of the Economic Recovery Package on January 28 by a vote of 244 to 188 which successfully included $50 million in supplemental grants funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), now the ...
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New Quebec Fiction
There’s not a lot of detail in the post, but at the Globe and Mail book blog, Linda Leith has an overview of new books from Quebec. Her main point is to emphasize the differences between the Quebec literary scene and that found in “English Canada,” differences both in terms of literary style and ...
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2009 Zayed Book Award in Literature
Over the weekend, it was announced that Jamal Al Ghitani of Egypt won the Zayed Book Award in Literature for the sixth volume of Dafater Al-Tadween, a historical novel that “ventures the ancient history of Egypt in effort to revive the myths and stories through the use of sufistic parables.” I believe the actual ...
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The Book Beast
Not so sure how I feel about this . . . Sure, Tina Brown gave lipservice to the importance of covering books: “It’s really important to support books and I am so distressed by what is happening to the publishing world,” she told us over the phone yesterday. “Book sections are closing everywhere ...
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You're All Invited
The Best Translated Book of 2008 Award Party will take place on Thursday, February 19th from 7 to 9:00pm, and you’re all invited. We’re having the party at Melville House Books at 145 Plymouth St. in Brooklyn. (To get there take the F train to York Street, the first stop in Brooklyn.) Francisco Goldman will ...
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Richard Nash on Publishing in a Recession
The latest entry in Scott Esposito’s fascinating series of interviews with independent publishers about publishing during a recession is now available online. This time he talks with Richard Nash, publisher of Soft Skull, and one of the smartest (and most articulate) people in the field when it comes to talking about ...
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