Category: publishing

McDonald’s.

“We venture to suggest the use of the more frequent form of the Christian name … — John seeming to us better suited than Jack to literary purposes.”

“Total sales of printed books fell to £1.51bn in 2012, down from £1.59bn in 2011, according to analysis of the year by book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan, with total value sales reaching their lowest since 2003.”

“You can see the performance poetry scene doing something like stand up. It’s the most obvious comparison. It’s not inconceivable that poetry will become the big entertainment business.”

More than 130 years after Samuel Clemens spent some time living in Heidelberg, he “is often the first person to come to mind when Germans think of Americans.”

“However disgraceful or unprincipled you may think the scribblers of today, rest assured that their 18th-century equivalents were at least as bad and probably worse. Furthermore, the laments and recourses of struggling writers have changed very little in the past three centuries.”

“There are ways to protect your e-books. Programs available on the Web can strip the code from your purchased items. But is that legal? No one is quite sure.”

“McDonald’s is to become the UK’s biggest children’s books distributor as it commits to handing out 15m books with its Happy Meals by 2015.”

Published in 1967, “The Charles Addams Mother Goose … is exactly as darkly delightful as you’d expect it to be, bringing the time-honored characters to wicked new life.”

Christian Wiman
Is off to Yale
After a decade
At Poetry