Este semana en… um.. publishing. The Millions took a look at the fiction published by the New Yorker from 2003-2007 and found some interesting trends. 37.4% were written by women, only 52% of the writers hailed from the US, and perhaps more interestingly, a mere 14 writers have accounted for 32% of the fiction, including […]
This Week in Books
This Week in Publishing 1/4/08
This first week of 2008 in Publishing: Esteemed fellow agent and intellectual property lawyer Jonathan Lyons is going to be giving a Mediabistro course on negotiating book contracts, so if you are going to be in the New York area on March 27th, definitely, definitely check that out. Your future book contract will thank you. […]
This Year in Publishing 2007
Well, I slapped my head on my way to work this morning because I belatedly realized I should have done an extensive “This YEAR in Publishing” retrospective and put time into a thoughtful look back on the year in publishing and the first year of this blog. Whoops. So here’s the year in publishing, 2007, […]
This Week in Publishing 12/14/07
This Week in the December Publishing Coma: Slate has, in my opinion, one of the very best end-of-the-year-best-of-books lists because they do something very simple: ask a bunch of people what their favorite book was and have them talk about it. You know. What we did on Wednesday. Our favorite feline Galley Cat caught up […]
This Week in Publishing 12/7/07
I’m not the only one on an e-book kick. Forbes recently featured a slide show on the present and future of e-books, which includes some pretty snazzy devices. Including this one: the Readius, a device about the size of a cell phone that features a fold-out, flexible e-ink display, coming soon! Yowza. The Readius will […]
This Week in Publishing 11/30/07
About yesterday. I totally MEANT to post. But I was really, really busy. Sorry. Please don’t be mad. Why are you mad? What did you think I did? I swear I wasn’t watching bad TV. There’s no evidence. Someone was standing in front of the camera. YOU JUST DON’T FATHOM ME. Anyway, the week in […]
