Category: words

David Bradley visited his newly-acquired Atlantic Monthly magazine Tuesday with a message for the staff: “Stay the course. I’m not planning big changes.” – Boston Globe

At the risk of being inundated, a London publisher reveals the do’s and don’t’s of getting published. He says it’s the best time ever for first-time authors to get into print. – The London Telegraph

Netbooks offers downloadable books online – readers can pick their own typefaces and search text with a click.  – Publisher’s Weekly

Mort Zuckerman surprised the magazine world yesterday when he sold The Atlantic, one of his prized publications, to the publisher of the National Journal. New owner plans to replace William Whitworth, the Atlantic’s longtime editor, with Michael Kelly. – Washington Post

After publishers turned her down, she self-published on the internet. Now she’s got a major book contract. – Cleveland Plain Dealer

Stern publishing puts its chain of alternative weeklies up for sale (Village Voice, Seattle Weekly among them) but the price is so high, observers predict it’ll be gobbled up by a media giant. If so, what will be so alternative about them? – Chicago Tribune

Brendan Bernhard ponders the low stature of poetry in our society at the end of the millennium. – LA Weekly

Hollywood is so desperate for scripts, writers with even a tiny buzz are getting contracts. – Variety

Barnes and Noble decides to start its own list of bestsellers. It’s not just a simple switch of lists, says one publisher: “A lot of us will have to rethink what a [New York] Times bestseller’ means.” – Publisher’s Weekly

– what makes Sally Bedell Smith’s new biography different? Source notes, she says. The Diana industry rolls on. – Toronto Globe and Mail