Category: publishing

That had never happened before in Canada, where publishers thought perhaps people wouldn’t go as much for e-books. They were wrong.

“Nowadays, book festivals are an international phenomenon and it can seem as if every second village in the country has one. In 1962 it was an innovation.”

“In the Babel that is New York City, where nearly 200 languages are spoken and read within the public school system and nearly 40 percent of the population was born abroad, literary tastes among immigrant cultures turn out to be as different as their cuisines.”

“Men are still on top of the annual list of highest earning authors, but this year women have made bigger strides than ever before.”

“Citing a loss of confidence in the book’s details, Christian publisher Thomas Nelson is ending the publication and distribution of the bestseller, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson.” Many historians had excoriated the author’s research, and viewers of The History Network recently voted it The Worst History Book in Print.

“Fifty Shades is just the latest reminder of what makes the publishing industry important. Every half-decade the book business comes up with a title that crystallises what it means to put an author in touch with a reader: a relationship that can be both bountiful and long-lasting.”

“Combined UK sales for the trilogy are in excess of 12m copies, with rights to the book sold around the world and published in languages including Albanian, Chinese, Russian, Serbian and Vietnamese. But is it right?”

Marc Smirnoff, who founded the literary journal in 1992 and kept it going through more than one financial crisis, and his girlfriend, managing editor Carol Ann Fitzgerald, were dismissed after a board investigation “produced detailed accounts of a workplace rife with sexual harassment.” Smirnoff furiously denies the accusations, even as he confirms some of the accusers’ accounts.

“Because email is without affect, it has a dulling quality that almost necessitates kicking everything up a notch just to bring it to where it would normally be.” But what if a particular point needs to be stressed beyond where it would normally be?

Philip Marlowe is making another comeback. Henry Holt & Company said on Tuesday that Raymond Chandler’s creation, one of the world’s most famous private eyes, will star in a novel written by John Banville to be published in 2013.”