AuthorHouse Acquires Competitor iUniverse
Self-publishing company iUniverse was recently acquired by one of its competitors, the Bloomington, Indiana-based AuthorHouse, Publishers Weekly recently reported.
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Judges Announce Finalists for the 2007 Man Booker Prize
On Thursday, the judges of the Man Booker Prize announced the names of the six finalists for the 2007 award.
On the Road, Again
Festival organizers, scholars, publishers, and readers celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s scroll-inscribed classic with special events and new books about the famous novel.
The Big Cover-Up: A Writer’s Role in Book Jacket Design
From conceptualization to marketing and sales, novelist Timothy Schaffert reveals the ins and outs of book jacket design, offering examples and tips on how authors can work with their own agents and editors to facilitate the process.
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Q&A: Teresa Weaver’s View of Reviews
The former Atlanta Journal-Constitution books editor discusses the public response to the elimination of her job and the future of book reviewing.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One offers a sample of titles we think you'll want to explore. With this installment, we offer excerpts from Cion by Zakes Mda and (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions by Steve Almond.
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Literary MagNet
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Cave Wall, 1913: A Journal of Forms, Alehouse, Avery, Cadillac Cicatrix, and Rattle.
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Small Press Points
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Dalkey Archive Press, Open Letter, the New York Review Books Classics, New Directions, Archipelago, Caketrain Press, and Octopus Books.
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Independent Magazine Distributor Closes its Doors After Sixty Years
Faye Kosmidis, the owner of Bernhard DeBoer, Inc., recently announced that the independent magazine distribution company was closing its doors after sixty years in business.
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