Today’s links of interest:
- Men ‘lie about books they have read to impress on dates’
So that guy who swore he read "Gravity’s Rainbow" cover to cover wasn’t being fully honest? - BISG Unveils BookDROP Standard for Digital Book Repositories
This is good news (though, yeah, this stuff really has to move a lot faster). - Perseus Suspends Raises
Ow. Oy. - Unit Sales Fall in Early December
Buy books. Please. In the meantime, we’re awaiting the numbers after the BS holiday shopping spree! - Bloggers Vs. an Author: No One Wins
Bloggers are mean, authors must do something. Books tours are awful. And? Oh right, you don’t have to engage with trolls. Talking back just encourages the mean, petty behavior. - Search and find magazines on Google Book Search
Wow. This is really cool. - Christian Voice objects to Patrick Jones poetry reading at National Assembly
Again, just because you don’t like it, it doesn’t mean you get to censor it. - Harry Potter: The Tales of Beedle the Bard becomes fastest-selling book of 2008
Thereby settling disputes we didn’t know were happening. - Reed Elsevier Won’t Be Selling Mags
Discussions to offload print publications have been terminated.
1 response so far ↓
KatG // Dec 13, 2008 at 1:48 pm
When you have an established, well-connected literary author who writes for national magazines, teaches, gets discussed on the Net, gets on t.v. shows and gets a 22-city tour from his publisher to try and help push him up the bestseller lists complaining about how he’s not getting enough attention and the intellectual deficiencies of the media and the public, then you get people thinking all authors have it that good and are snooty whiners, and that the reading public must be morons after all.
I don’t have anything against this guy — he may be a great writer. But this sort of media promotion does not do fiction publishing any favors, in my opinion. Nor does it entice people to want to read fiction, including his.