This week in double rainbows I mean publishing… Stephen Parrish pointed me to a NY Times survey of the world of book trailers, those magical creatures that use video to convince us we should read books. While only 0.1% of everyone out there decided to purchase a book via a book trailer, the kids these […]
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This Week in Publishing 3/13/09
Lots of links this week, and they don’t all fit neatly into the theme of Negativity Week, so in lieu of an actual theme to the news I will instead be saying “Bah!” at the end of every paragraph regardless of my feeling about the news I’ve just relayed. Consider it negativity, old man style. […]
This Week in Publishing 1/9/09
There is a huge amount of news this week, and TWIP is bursting at the seams! Better get started. First off, very sad news: long time reader Travis Erwin’s house recently burned down, and Erica Orloff and Stephen Parrish have pitched in to create a website where you can donate virtual bricks to help him […]
What’s Your Favorite Book Based On a True Story?
I had nearly finished reading Jon Krakauer’s INTO THIN AIR on the way to work this morning and I had to resist walking down the street with my nose in the book. This proved to be a wise choice when I was nearly plowed over in a crosswalk by an SUV inattentively making a right […]
This Week in Publishing 3/7/08
This Week in the Wonderful World of Publishing: Remember last week when I talked about Word Count and talked about how some people in publishing think that short books are coming into style? This just in from AP Books Reporter Hillel Italie (via Publishers Lunch): short books (especially of the nonfictional varietal) are in style. […]
What Should Be Done About All These Fake Memoirs?
This may be the longest You Tell Me in history, but here goes: What should be done about all of these fake memoirs? Let that question percolate a little, and then let’s see if your opinion changes by the end of this post. I’ve been trying to process the news about two more fake memoirs […]
