Today’s links of interest:
- 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. - Books: No Raises Next Year at Macmillan… and Merry Christmas!
And so it goes. Via Gawker. - The e-Book and the Future of Book Publishing
Some of this might sound familiar (which proves the old great minds and all that thing). - Knopf Ascendant: Mehta Galaxy Grows In Random Big Bang
How Sonny Mehta survived and prospered in the recent Random House reorg. - Sam Jordison: The tyranny of the to-read pile
Saving money by reading the books in your TBR may not be as easy as it sounds. - Le Clézio uses Nobel lecture to attack information poverty
As always, we appreciate the sentiments expressed, but puzzle over the insistence that one medium is the best possible solution. - Wiley Posts Second Quarter Gains
Some good news for the week.
